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By For The Catholic Herald
Marymount University in Arlington has been named to the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) for engaging its students, faculty and staff in meaningful service that achieves measurable results in the community. This is the university’s fourth consecutive year on the honor roll. Marymount […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Calling for unity – not uniformity – in the church, Pope Francis said diversity is a blessing only when all Catholics recognize and follow church teaching. “It is the church which brings Christ to me and me to Christ; parallel journeys are dangerous,” he told some 200,000 members of Catholic lay movements […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – One young man’s dream of becoming a Swiss Guard began with a postage stamp. Michael Odermatt said that when he was a small child, his godfather gave him a stamp depicting the ornately dressed papal soldier “and I was fascinated by that image and wanted to know everything about the Swiss Guard.” […]
National
By Ed Wilkinson Catholic News Service
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – There were more questions than answers about the April 15 terror attack on the Boston Marathon in the days following the bombings, even with the FBI’s eventual identification of two suspects in the attack. No one knows that better than people who were on the scene, such as Franciscan Father Brian Jordan, […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis told young inmates that, just as Jesus came to help and serve others, he, too, was at their service as a priest and bishop. During the evening Mass at Rome’s Casal del Marmo prison for minors, Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 young people of different nationalities and faiths, […]
National
By Patricia Zapur Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The Jesuit brethren of the new Pope Francis were as surprised as anyone when Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was announced March 13 as the first Jesuit to be elected pope. One Jesuit, who shares the pope’s Argentine roots and has known him since his own days as a novice, […]
Pope Francis
FRANCIS X. ROCCA Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY – The period immediately following a pontificate is one of excited speculation, more or less loose, about the identity of the next pope. Though secrecy rules do not forbid cardinals from naming their preferences, custom and prudence effectively do. In any case, as history shows, once the […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – It took the combined clout of an actress best known for playing an angel and her big-ratings executive-producer husband, but Roma Downey and Mark Burnett have pulled off the making of a 10-hour miniseries, “The Bible,” that gets its premiere Sunday, March 3, on the History cable channel. The miniseries runs 8-10 p.m. […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican monastery where Pope Benedict XVI intends to live began its life as the Vatican gardener’s house, but was established as a cloistered convent by Blessed John Paul II in 1994. When Pope Benedict, 85, announced Feb. 11 that his age and declining energies prompted his decision to resign effective Feb. […]
Global
By Lise Alves
SAO PAULO – A Catholic samba group in Rio de Janeiro changed its parade plans after the nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people, most of them students from the local university in Santa Maria. The Catholic samba block group known as Revelry for Christ was scheduled to parade through downtown Rio Jan. 27. […]
