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By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY – Here is a list of the 14 cardinals from Canada and the United States who are under the age of 80 and therefore eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI: UNITED STATES Raymond Burke, head of the Apostolic Signature Daniel N. DiNardo […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The sick, their caregivers and any Catholic who prays for or lovingly assists someone who is ill can gain an indulgence with prayers and service on or around the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, which the Catholic Church marks as World Day of the Sick. A special Mass and services marking […]
National
By Catholic News Service
ARLINGTON – Judge Robert Bork, former circuit judge, U.S. solicitor general and 1987 Supreme Court judicial nominee, died Dec. 19 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington of complications from heart disease. He was 85. Bork became a Catholic in 2003 at age 76. In an interview with the National Catholic Register after he joined the […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will preside over a full schedule of public Masses and prayer services over the Advent and Christmas season. The Vatican released the pope’s calendar of liturgical celebrations Nov. 9. The pope is scheduled to: – Lead an evening prayer service with Rome university students in St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Brandon Vogt, 26, is a mechanical engineer, Catholic convert and blogger whose mission is to help the church spread the Gospel with technology. He began his online persona as a Protestant blogger, eventually converting to Catholicism and blogging on his new faith. Vogt discussed his ideas for evangelization May 10 at a presentation sponsored by […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council launched a new Catholic commitment to interreligious dialogue, work continues on clarifying the church’s attitudes toward other religions. While some Catholics still look on other religions with disdain, other Catholics seem to believe Vatican II taught that all religions were equally valid paths to God […]
Local
The Arlington Diocese will host a Multicultural Mass and Fair Oct. 21, World Mission Sunday, at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More, 3901 Cathedral Lane, Arlington, at 2:30 p.m. Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde will celebrate the Mass, which will be followed by a fair showcasing the diverse Catholic communities of the diocese. There will […]
National
By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – Christopher Gaul, former reporter and managing editor of The Catholic Review, newspaper of the Baltimore Archdiocese, was remembered after his death Oct. 18 for his creative, careful and thorough approach to his work and as “a good Catholic journalist.” In 1995, when Gaul was the senior writer at the paper, his take on […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict added a 16th-century Spanish priest and a 12th-century German abbess to the roster of doctors of the universal church. The pope proclaimed the new doctors, St. John of Avila and St. Hildegard of Bingen, at Mass Oct. 7 in St. Peter’s Square, where the thousands in attendance included pilgrims waving […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Choosing men and women from every part of the world and from a wide variety of professions, Pope Benedict XVI nominated 45 experts and 49 observers for the upcoming world assembly of bishops. The Oct. 7-28 gathering will include the largest bloc of women – 10 experts and 19 observers – ever […]
