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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Cardinal-designate James M. Harvey has spent 30 years working at the Vatican in positions requiring great discretion and bringing him into daily contact with the pope, the world’s most powerful government leaders and millions of Catholic faithful. Pope Benedict XVI announced Oct. 24 that he would induct Archbishop Harvey, a native of […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Retired Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw, who served as primate of the Catholic Church in Poland during the final years of communism and during the restoration of democracy, died Jan. 23 at the age of 83. Offering his condolences to Polish Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI said Cardinal Glemp had a “profound love […]
National
By Catholic News Service
LOS ANGELES — Cardinal Roger M. Mahony will “no longer have any administrative or public duties” as retired archbishop of Los Angeles because of past failures to protect children from clergy sex abuse, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez announced Jan. 31. The archbishop’s statement came the same day the archdiocese released 12,000 pages of personnel files […]
Global
By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service
BEIT JALLA, West Bank – After a morning of visits to Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity and a local Catholic parish, U.S. Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien was overcome with emotion during his meeting with seminarians at the Latin Patriarchate seminary. “I can’t think of a more encouraging moment than this,” he told the young men […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – On the eve of his first trip to the Holy Land as grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien said he hoped to encourage the region’s Christian minority with a message of solidarity from Pope Benedict XVI and other Catholics in the West. “The church in […]
National
By Christopher S. Pineo
BOSTON – Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley will not attend Boston College’s commencement this year because the college planned to honor the prime minister of Ireland, who has supported a bill to introduce legalized abortion in that country. In a statement May 10, Cardinal O’Malley said he cannot support the Jesuit-run university when it confers […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Forty years of legalized abortion have profoundly demoralized American society, not only weakening respect for human life but undermining marriage, parenthood and individuals’ sense of duty to others, said U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford. The cardinal, a former archbishop of Denver and former head of two Vatican offices, said that the legalization […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, congratulated President Barack Obama on his re-election in a Nov. 7 letter. “The people of our country have again entrusted you with a great responsibility,” Cardinal Dolan said. “The Catholic bishops of the United States offer our prayers […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – The challenges of being human and of living in a world that does not always want to hear about faith do not lessen the obligation to proclaim the Gospel and to call the baptized to live their faith more fully, said Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington. “We already know our difficulties, […]
National
By Angelo Stagnaro
NEW YORK – In Fordham University’s Rose Hill Gymnasium, television comedian Stephen Colbert joined forces with Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York Sept. 14 to discuss faith, humor and spirituality before an audience of 3,000, mostly made up of cheering students. The session was moderated by Jesuit Father James Martin, author of “The Jesuit […]
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