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Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – In an austerity move like those being taken by governments around the world, the Vatican will not pay its employees a bonus marking the March 13 election of Pope Francis but will instead make a donation to charity. “In the past, on the occasion of the start of a pontificate, a bonus […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – Thousands of people who gathered at one end of the National Mall March 26 in support of traditional marriage took their message to the U.S. Supreme Court as they walked and held aloft placards with signs saying: “Kids do best with a mom and dad.” The court began hearing oral arguments that morning […]
Pope Francis
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 Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In 1989, Bishop Sean P. O’Malley of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, flew to the neighboring island of St. Croix to stay with a priest unable to evacuate before a pending storm. The storm – Hurricane Hugo – whipped through the Caribbean and devastated St. Croix. When it was over, the bishop was out […]
Local
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde will celebrate Mass March 14 in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington at 7:15 p.m. The Mass will be taped and broadcast Easter Sunday, March 27, at 10:30 a.m. as a special one-hour edition of the Sunday TV Mass on […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – After more than six weeks of not being able to accept credit- and debit-card payments in the Vatican Museums and shops, the Vatican announced Feb. 13 that it had begun accepting plastic again. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, also told reporters Feb. 13 that it was likely that the Institute for […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – As much as he astonished the world when he announced his resignation Feb. 11, Pope Benedict XVI’s decision seems almost predictable in hindsight. Given his previous statements on the subject and his recent signs of aging, one might say that people should have seen it coming. The real mystery now is not […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will lead a full slate of Holy Week and Easter liturgies in Rome and at the Vatican, keeping pace with a usually busy papal schedule. Publishing the pope’s schedule Jan. 29, the Vatican said his Holy Week activities will begin with a procession and Mass in St. Peter’s Square […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – In an effort to protect Michelangelo’s famed frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Museums will be installing a new ventilation system to suck the dust, dirt and humidity from visitors. With 5 million tourists pushing through the turnstiles each year, all that traffic is taking its toll as “dust, temperature, humidity […]
Global
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The destruction from Typhoon Bopha in portions of Mindanao in the southern Philippines is worse than feared as rescue workers continued to discover bodies under knee-deep mud, said a Catholic Relief Services official coordinating the agency’s storm response. “It looks like a tsunami hit. It’s just complete and total destruction. Whole hillsides were […]
