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By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The picture on Ted Bergh’s cellphone showed a long line of people winding around Springfield Central Catholic School in western Ohio. They were there April 13 to get food, he said; 733 families, 2,378 people in all. Bergh, CEO of Catholic Charities of Southwest Ohio based in Cincinnati, was astonished by the numbers. […]
Global
By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service
JERUSALEM – The winding road from the Mount of Olives to the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem was alive with music and song in many languages as global pilgrims joined local Christian Palestinians in the traditional Palm Sunday procession commemorating Jesus’ entry into the city. “This is the only day in the year […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed St. Peter’s Square and adjoining streets March 17 to hear Pope Francis deliver his first Angelus, saying prayers at noon and greeting pilgrims not only from Rome but from around the world. The crowd, which nearly filled the square an hour before the pope appeared high […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Chanting the Litany of the Saints, asking a host of holy men and women to help them, the cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel in procession, aware of their enormous responsibility to elect a new pope. Less than half of the 117 cardinals eligible to vote for a successor to Pope Benedict XVI […]
Local
A “Living Stations of the Cross” will take place at Mount St. Mary’s University, 16300 Old Emmitsburg Rd., Emmitsburg, Md., March13 at 3 p.m. The production is a living reenactment of the Way of the Cross and will include Mount St. Mary’s students. If you go The procession will begin at the east end of […]
National
By Catholic News Service
HANCEVILLE, Ala. – Deacon Bill Steltemeier, founding president of the Eternal Word Television Network and its longtime board chairman, died Feb. 15 following a lengthy illness. He was 83. The deacon, who died at his home in Hanceville, was known to EWTN viewers around the world as a close associate of Mother Angelica, the network’s […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – In sexual morality, family life and education, the Baby Boom generation ushered in a series of cultural changes that led to an “anthropological crisis” in American society, leaving younger generations yearning acutely for what the Catholic Church has to offer. That is the assessment of Pia de Solenni, a Seattle-based writer with […]
Local
Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries will host the JP5k Run for Options Nov. 21 at 8 a.m. Organized by the JP Family Association, the run/walk features a timed, certified course that begins and ends at the school, winding through the Potomac Shores neighborhood. Proceeds from the race will support the […]
Global
By Jonathan Luxmmore Catholic News Service
WARSAW, Poland – Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp took over as head of the Polish church during “hard and uncertain” times, Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk of Gniezno told hundreds of people at the cardinal’s funeral. “His life was not easy and his service (was) demanding,” Archbishop Kowalczyk said during the homily at the Jan. 28 Mass in […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – In an effort to protect Michelangelo’s famed frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Museums will be installing a new ventilation system to suck the dust, dirt and humidity from visitors. With 5 million tourists pushing through the turnstiles each year, all that traffic is taking its toll as “dust, temperature, humidity […]
