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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – From the moment he was elected pope at the age of 78 in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI has kept a schedule that appeared light compared to that of Blessed John Paul II, but busy for a man who already had a pacemaker and who wanted to retire to study, write and pray […]
National
By Lynnea Pruzinsky Mumola Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – For Herman Ray, a Native American from Arizona, and Franciscan Sister Margaret Christi Karwowski, currently living in the Washington Archdiocese, the canonization of two Americans last Oct. 21 – Sts. Kateri Tekakwitha and Marianne Cope – confirmed something they already knew: the holiness of two remarkable women. “She has been my guide in […]
National
By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Should the Christmas shopping crowds, costs and commercialism be at odds with how one is trying to observe Advent and the celebration of the birth of Christ, there’s a burgeoning world of alternative ways of gift-giving that are vying for attention. – Angel trees or giving trees set up in churches, schools or […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The white open-air jeep Blessed John Paul II was riding in when he was shot May 13, 1981, was taken out of storage and put on display in the Vatican Museums’ newly revamped Popemobile Pavilion. The move wasn’t meant to sensationalize the tragic event or turn it into a sideshow, but to […]
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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Wearing Native American beads and feathers, Hawaiian leis, classic Filipino shirts, or German dirndls, Catholics from around the globe gathered in St. Peter’s Square to celebrate the recognition of seven new saints. One of the pilgrims who came to celebrate the canonization of St. Kateri Tekakawita Oct. 21 was Blessed Sacrament Father […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In a survey of Catholics age 14 and older, about 12 percent of males and 10 percent of females said they considered a religious vocation at least “a little seriously,” a study by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University found. The findings, released Oct. 9, give church leaders […]
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 […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Every year, the Vatican conducts research on church law and practice, offers scholarships to Orthodox and Muslim students, designs academic programs for church workers and maintains vast libraries and archives consulted by scholars from around the world. Jesuit Father Norman Tanner, dean of church history at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, said no […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Catholic devotion to the saints appears to be alive and well, and Pope Benedict XVI continues to proclaim new saints at a regular pace. The official calendar of saints’ feast days will grow in October when the pope canonizes seven men and women, including Mother Marianne Cope of Molokai and three laypeople: […]
