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By Valerie Schmalz Catholic News Service
SAN FRANCISCO – The Vatican is working to authenticate whether the 1997 healing of an Oakland-area man with incurable cancer came about through the intercession of Father Franz Stock, a German Army chaplain to Paris prisoners of the Nazis. Such authentication is needed before the priest’s beatification can be approved. Father Stock was “the last […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Light and darkness, truth and lies, hope and despair are in a constant battle in the world, but with his death and resurrection Jesus conquered sin and death for all time, Pope Benedict XVI said on Easter. “If Jesus is risen, then – and only then – has something truly new happened, […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – A set of national standards and benchmarks for Catholic schools – defining what makes them unique and providing ways to measure their effectiveness – was released March 7. The publication: “National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools” is the result of a collaborative effort by the Center for Catholic […]
National
By Catholic News Service
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia hospital’s alleged refusal to provide a kidney transplant to a mentally disabled 3-year-old is yet another example of the harm caused in the United States by the Roe v. Wade court decision legalizing abortion, according to Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. “The habit of treating genetically disabled children as somehow less […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Ceremonial and sacred objects from different parts of the world present enormous challenges for art restorers; they must clean, repair and preserve very unusual and delicate materials such as blue kingfisher bird feathers glued onto an 18th-century Chinese metal headdress or hair and reptile skin decorating an Ethiopian string instrument made out […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – While the surprise resignation of Pope Benedict XVI is a first for the church in centuries, it also leads to a complicated period of transition that ends in the election of a new pope. Regulated by ancient traditions and recent rules, the period between popes – known by the Latin term “interregnum” […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI launched his very own Twitter account, sending a short inaugural message to his more than 1 million followers. “Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart,” it said. His tweet […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
ROME – Western nations need to respect the people of the Middle East and trust them to solve their own problems, said an Iraqi diplomat, an Iraqi archbishop and a Syrian-born representative of the Melkite Catholic Church. The two religious leaders also called for an end to foreign military intervention and other interference in the […]
National
By Catholic News Service
NEW YORK – New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan will offer closing prayers at the Democratic National Convention Sept. 6, as he will at the Republican National Convention a week earlier. Cardinal Dolan, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, accepted an invitation from the Democratic convention organizers to deliver the benediction on […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The U.S. government has put the Vatican on a list of countries that are vulnerable to money launderers, though not as vulnerable as the United States itself. It was the first time the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs included the Holy See in its annual report. The Vatican was […]
