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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The white open-air jeep Blessed John Paul II was riding in when he was shot May 13, 1981, was taken out of storage and put on display in the Vatican Museums’ newly revamped Popemobile Pavilion. The move wasn’t meant to sensationalize the tragic event or turn it into a sideshow, but to […]
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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Wearing Native American beads and feathers, Hawaiian leis, classic Filipino shirts, or German dirndls, Catholics from around the globe gathered in St. Peter’s Square to celebrate the recognition of seven new saints. One of the pilgrims who came to celebrate the canonization of St. Kateri Tekakawita Oct. 21 was Blessed Sacrament Father […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In a survey of Catholics age 14 and older, about 12 percent of males and 10 percent of females said they considered a religious vocation at least “a little seriously,” a study by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University found. The findings, released Oct. 9, give church leaders […]
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By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – When Blessed John Paul II launched the project he called the new evangelization, he made it clear that it was aimed above all at reviving the ancient faith of an increasingly faithless West: “countries and nations where religion and the Christian life were formerly flourishing,” now menaced by a “constant spreading of […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Every year, the Vatican conducts research on church law and practice, offers scholarships to Orthodox and Muslim students, designs academic programs for church workers and maintains vast libraries and archives consulted by scholars from around the world. Jesuit Father Norman Tanner, dean of church history at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, said no […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Catholic devotion to the saints appears to be alive and well, and Pope Benedict XVI continues to proclaim new saints at a regular pace. The official calendar of saints’ feast days will grow in October when the pope canonizes seven men and women, including Mother Marianne Cope of Molokai and three laypeople: […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Retired Navy Adm. James D. Watkins, former chief of naval operations, who was chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s AIDS commission and energy secretary for President George H.W. Bush, died of congestive heart failure July 26 at his home in Alexandria. He was 85. A funeral Mass for Watkins is to be celebrated Aug. […]
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By Catholic News Service
PEORIA, Ill. – The Vatican’s June 28 decree that U.S. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen lived a life of heroic virtues and should be considered venerable – advancing his sainthood cause – prompted much rejoicing in his home state of Illinois. “This is a great day for the Catholic Diocese of Peoria and the Catholic Church […]
National
By Michael Kelly
DUBLIN – The Catholic Church is under attack “partly because of the sins of some of its leaders, but mainly because of its uncompromising teachings” on marriage, said an Australian archbishop. “Faced with this, the Church can either compromise and face irrelevance, or continue to teach Christ’s truth about marriage, life and love, and pray […]
