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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 […]
National
By Matthew Gambino
PHILADELPHIA – Only days before the start of the March 2012 trial of Father James Brennan and Msgr. William Lynn on charges related to the clergy sexual abuse scandal, former priest Edward Avery admitted he’d sexually assaulted a 10-year-old altar boy at his Northeast Philadelphia parish in 1999. Avery – who was laicized, or removed […]
National
By Catholic News Service
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A federal district court judge in Ann Arbor granted a Michigan business, Weingartz Supply Co., a temporary injunction from the Health and Human Services’ contraceptive mandate. The judge Oct. 31 also dismissed a lawsuit filed by a nonprofit Catholic group, Legatus, because he said the religious organization qualified for the Obama […]
National
By Catholic News Service
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – When Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York offered the closing benediction Sept. 6 at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, he made allusions to issues that have put the U.S. church and the White House at odds with each other. “Renew in all our people a profound respect for religious liberty: […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – As violence continued to shake Syria, the Vatican nuncio in Damascus called on the international community to unite in efforts to restore peace. “In Damascus, the last three days have been very difficult” as the fighting moved to the city, Archbishop Mario Zenari, the nuncio, told Catholic News Service in a telephone […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis reaffirmed the importance of responding decisively to the problem of the sexual abuse of minors by members of the clergy and called on the Vatican office dealing with suspected cases to continue carrying out its mandate. During an April 5 meeting with Archbishop Gerhard L. Muller, prefect of the Congregation […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – In a special appeal against HIV and AIDS, Pope Benedict XVI called for special attention to those unable to afford life-saving drugs, especially pregnant and nursing women affected by the disease. The pope, speaking before World AIDS Day Dec. 1, said his thoughts and prayers were with “the great number of children […]
Columns
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – With Jesus’ resurrection “love has triumphed, mercy has been victorious,” Pope Francis said in his first Easter message “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world). “Let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish,” the […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
ROME – As the church is set to begin the Year of Faith and a synod on the new evangelization, the rosary can play a key role in strengthening and spreading the word of God, said a leading American expert in Marian studies. “This Year of Faith is a call for evangelization, a new evangelization […]
Local
March 29 – Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, Cathedral of Saint Thomas More, Arlington March 30 – Annual Holy Saturday Rosary at Abortion Clinic, Falls Church Easter Vigil Mass, Cathedral of Saint Thomas More, Arlington March 31 – Easter Sunday Mass, Saint Leo the Great Church, Fairfax
