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By Elizabeth Foley
WASHINGTON – Most colleges require students to put away their cellphones during class. However, for one class at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., not bringing a cellphone to class can result in loss of points from their participation grade. Cellphone photography is a new class at Catholic U. that allows students to see photography in […]
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By Ron Lajoie
NEW YORK – They were called “pagan babies,” an appellation that would never be used today. When Oblate Father Andrew Small asked who remembered them at the inaugural World Mission Dinner in New York, a few hands went up, mostly belonging to people with gray hair. But Father Small, national director of the Pontifical Mission […]
Local
By Sara Angle Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Exercise might not be able to stop the aging process but it can certainly prevent or slow down some of its effects. Exercise can improve the ability to do everyday tasks and manage diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and osteoporosis, and provide increased balance, strength and mood, according to the National […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Members of the Synod of Bishops recommended the Vatican establish a commission to monitor religious freedom, develop guidelines for training evangelizers and ensure there is a church in every diocese where confession is always available. At the end of the three-week world Synod of Bishops on new evangelization, members of the gathering […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, said any evangelization he’s done has always and only been a matter of building on the evangelization already begun within the family. “My pastoral work is simply an addition to what the family has already built,” he said Oct. 10 during a speech to the Synod […]
Pope Francis
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 […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – People in Syria are “stunned and deeply saddened and worried for the future,” said Archbishop Mario Zenari, the Vatican nuncio to Syria. In an interview with Vatican Radio Aug. 21, the nuncio said the previous day’s withdrawal of U.N. forces was “a sad blow. Three or four months ago, there was a […]
Movies
A retired CIA agent (Liam Neeson) returns to the rampage when the father (Rade Sherbedgia) of the villain he dispatched in the first installment of this violent franchise seeks revenge with a kidnapping plot targeting the operative, his ex-wife (Famke Janssen) and their teen daughter (Maggie Grace). Though the perfunctory setup includes a nod or […]
National
By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON – It might seem like there’s an electronic database for everything, but if someone is trying to prove the tax-exempt status of a nonprofit organization such as a religious charity or school, the process is substantially lower-tech and not necessarily easily searchable. On top of that, the system is fraught with potential pitfalls for […]
Pope Francis
By John Thavis and Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – During his almost eight-year pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI impressed the world as a teacher, guiding Catholics to the sources of the faith and urging modern society not to turn its back on God. Citing his age and diminishing energy, the 85-year-old pope announced Feb. 11 that he would be resigning effective Feb. […]
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