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By Nancy Frazier O’brien
WASHINGTON – Stem-cell research is once again making news in Congress and the courts. But this time, it’s on the sports pages too. And instead of the embryonic stem-cell research that was once all the rage, the news is in the field of adult stem-cell research, which does not involve the destruction of human embryos. […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In an effort to highlight the dramatic situation of refugees left in limbo on the Greek island of Lesbos, Pope Francis and other Christian leaders will meet with the migrants April 16. “Naturally, the pope wants to be there in order to draw attention to the sense of solidarity and responsibility” […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – For 39 years, Dave Katich of All Saints Parish in Etna, Pa., wanted to attend the opening Mass for the National Prayer Vigil for Life, but something always kept him away. Not this year. Katich and his wife, Debi, finally joined their friends from All Saints, Frank and Sherry Rectenwald, for the four-hour […]
National
By Mark Pattison
BALTIMORE – The U.S. bishops, on a voice vote, endorsed the sainthood cause of Dorothy Day, the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, who was famously quoted as saying, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.” The endorsement came at the end of a canonically required consultation that took […]
Global
By Francis X. Rocca
BEIRUT – Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Lebanon Sept. 14, saying that he came “as a pilgrim of peace, as a friend of God and as a friend of men.” In his remarks at a welcoming ceremony at Beirut’s airport, Pope Benedict praised Lebanon, with a mixed population of Christians and Muslims, for its distinctive […]
National
By Catholic News Service
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, a U.S. astronaut, met briefly with Pope Benedict XVI at the end of the pope’s weekly general audience Aug. 8. Giffords, who was shot and seriously wounded during a political appearance in Arizona in 2011, traveled to Rome with her husband […]
Local
Fr. Paul Dudzinski, pastor of St. Peter Parish in Washington, recently moved in to a new rectory built on the parish property in Rappahannock County. In the works for a few years, the house gives the priest more room compared to the suite of rooms attached to the church building where he was living until […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
ROME – The Vatican-ordered revision of the statutes of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will continue, but it must be accompanied with a real dialogue, which has been missing from the process, said Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. “It […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — In one of his last efforts to clean up the image of the Vatican bank, Pope Benedict XVI approved the hiring of the chairman of a German shipyard as the bank’s new president. Ernst von Freyberg, 54, fills a nine-month-long vacancy at the helm of the bank after its former president, Ettore […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair made an impassioned defense of religion, saying the world would be heading for tragedy and disaster without faith. In a May 14 interview in front of more than 4,300 people at an Anglican conference in the Royal Albert Hall, London, Blair also revealed that he had once […]
