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National
By Maria Wiering
BALTIMORE – Jim Bolduc has two favorite pieces of college football memorabilia – a Fighting Irish photo montage of its famed 1988 win over the University of Miami, and a football autographed by Navy quarterback and 1963 Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach. As a 1990 University of Notre Dame graduate and a U.S. Naval Academy […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has decided to celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper in a Rome juvenile detention facility and wash the feet of some of the young detainees. It marks a change in venue of the previously scheduled March 28 Holy Week event from St. Peter’s Basilica to Rome’s Casal […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden and Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Claudio Sciarpelletti, the Vatican Secretariat of State computer technician accused of aiding and abetting the pope’s butler in stealing confidential Vatican correspondence, will go on trial at the Vatican Nov. 5. The Vatican announced the trial date Oct. 23. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told reporters that Sciarpelletti’s trial on the […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo, 63, heads Brazil’s largest diocese and ministers in one of the most populous cities in the world. In the city of more than 11 million people – more than 80 percent of whom are Catholic – the cardinal oversees parishes that struggle with high […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
The morality of body piercing Q. I am the mother of three girls, ages 17, 15 and 11. Our two older girls have been asking permission to have their navels pierced. For now, my husband has told them “no,” but he has promised to reassess once the girls have taken the time to present to […]
Columns
By Bill and Monica Dodds Catholic News Service
It’s good to be reminded, or to realize for the first time, that caregiving is pro-life. What seems so obvious can be easily overlooked, especially if you’re a caregiver. So busy (at times so overwhelmed) with your caregiving duties, you may tend to think that you no longer can contribute to normal duties. But you […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Guardian angels exist to protect every human life from its beginning to end, Pope Benedict XVI said. “The Lord is always near and active in human history, and he also accompanies us with the unique presence of his angels, which the church today venerates” on feast of the Guardian Angels Oct. 2, […]
Arts
By Kurt Jensen
NEW YORK – To famed director Alfred Hitchcock, the ideal premise for a suspense picture – one he used many times – was a man wrongly accused of a crime. He thought of it as a fear to which everyone could relate. Born in 1899, Hitchcock died in 1980, long before the online era. Were […]
Movies
This coming-of-age saga paints a disturbing picture of high-school life in small-town America. Based on the novel by Tim Tharp, it’s the familiar story of a good girl (Shailene Woodley) who meets a popular but flawed guy (Miles Teller), who, in this case, also happens to be an alcoholic. Over the course of much angst […]
Movies
This mostly pleasing rumination on moral choices and how the theft of ideas propels fiction eventually lurches to an ambiguous ending likely to please no one. The three-tiered story centers on a struggling writer (Bradley Cooper) who happens across the manuscript of a novel which he publishes as his own work, only to face an […]
