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By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Not every bishop gets, at his episcopal ordination, a color guard from both the Knights of Columbus and the U.S. military. Nor do they get both “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “The Navy Hymn” sung at the ordination Mass. But when you are newly ordained for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, as Bishop […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 – and 2013, considering when the House of Representatives passed it – will be known as much by what it doesn’t include as what it does include. The legislation, among other things, extends the farm bill by nine months, which prevents milk prices from doubling. But […]
Global
By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service
MANCHESTER, England – The newly appointed leader of the world’s Anglicans is a former oil executive who said his spiritual director was a Catholic monk. Bishop Justin Welby of Durham, who will become the new archbishop of Canterbury, did not name the monk, but told a Nov. 9 news conference at London’s Lambeth Palace that […]
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 […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Jeanne Monahan is the new full-time president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, which organizes and runs the March for Life in Washington each January. The organization’s board of directors unanimously voted to appoint Monahan to the post. She succeeds the late Nellie Gray, founder and president, who died […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
ROME – Ten teams of young international designers battled it out to produce an innovative eco-friendly popemobile that could guarantee high “pope visibility,” meet strict security standards and promise low emissions. Some proposed features included sunroof panels that would open like flower petals to side windows that could “live Tweet” messages to and from the […]
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 […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY – Warning that Catholic charitable activity must not become “just another form of organized social assistance,” Pope Benedict XVI issued new rules to strengthen the religious identity of Catholic charities and ensure that their activities conform to church teaching. The pope’s apostolic letter on the “service of charity,” issued “motu proprio” (on his […]
National
By Lynnea Pruzinsky Mumola Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – For Herman Ray, a Native American from Arizona, and Franciscan Sister Margaret Christi Karwowski, currently living in the Washington Archdiocese, the canonization of two Americans last Oct. 21 – Sts. Kateri Tekakwitha and Marianne Cope – confirmed something they already knew: the holiness of two remarkable women. “She has been my guide in […]
Columns
By Cardinal Justin Rigali
On April 17, the National Institutes of Health released new draft guidelines for federally funded embryonic stem-cell research. Federal tax dollars will now be used, for the first time, to encourage the destruction of innocent human beings for their stem cells. Law professor Douglas Kmiec states in an opinion piece distributed by Catholic News Service […]
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