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By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Citing a distinguished German theologian and an anonymous elderly penitent from Argentina, Pope Francis told an overflow crowd in St. Peter’s Square never to despair of God’s mercy to sinners. “The Lord never tires of forgiving,” the pope said March 17, before leading his listeners in praying the midday Angelus. “It is […]
National
By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – When major league baseball umpire Mark Wegner, a Catholic, is in Baltimore to work at an Orioles game, one way he likes to spend his spare time is by helping people in need. “I have free time, and I try to use it productively, but nothing is more productive than, going to Mass, […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – It was Oct. 11, 1962, and the bishop of Inchon, Korea, was walking in a procession of more than 2,200 other bishops into St. Peter’s Basilica on the opening day of the Second Vatican Council. “Every light was on in the basilica because of television,” said the bishop, ordained for the Maryknoll […]
Global
By Bridget Kelly Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Terrorist attacks on Christians in Africa, the Middle East and Asia tripled in a seven-year period, a Vatican official told a U.N. meeting. Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, the Holy See’s permanent observer to U.N. offices in Geneva, told the U.N. Human Rights Council that while Christians are not the only victims, attacks […]
National
By Bill Brewer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Cardinal Justin Rigali, former archbishop of St. Louis and Philadelphia who is currently in residence in Knoxville, was a priest assistant at the Second Vatican Council – a spot that essentially gave him a backstage pass. The significance wasn’t lost on the then-27-year-old Los Angeles priest, who called it a privilege to […]
National
By George P. Matysek Jr.
BALTIMORE – In a jubilant liturgy that highlighted the historic roots of the Baltimore Archdiocese while also looking to the future, Archbishop William E. Lori was installed as the 16th archbishop of Baltimore May 16 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. A smiling Archbishop Lori wore the same pectoral cross that belonged to Archbishop […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz and Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Even though Pope Benedict XVI will spend his retirement near Rome and then inside Vatican City, he will not play any role in the upcoming election for a new pope, and he will not interfere with the responsibilities and decision-making activities of the new pontiff, the Vatican spokesman said. Rather, the new […]
National
By Maureen Boyle
BETHESDA, Md. – Katie Ledecky will bring a gold medal home to Bethesda after winning the 800-freestyle swim race Aug. 3 at the 2012 London Olympics. The 15-year-old, the youngest U.S. Olympian this year, attends Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda and is a parishioner at the Church of the Little Flower, […]
Pope Francis
FRANCIS X. ROCCA Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY – The period immediately following a pontificate is one of excited speculation, more or less loose, about the identity of the next pope. Though secrecy rules do not forbid cardinals from naming their preferences, custom and prudence effectively do. In any case, as history shows, once the […]
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