Two prominent Catholics will be commemorated on U.S. postage stamps in 2017. Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, who was president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years, and U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963, are among several subjects that will be part of next year’s stamp program.
Leaders of the U.S. Catholic Church have been proceeding carefully in their efforts to understand and implement the pope’s exhortation on marriage and family, according to a report issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Justin Carr’s future looked bright. He had just celebrated his 26th birthday, started a new job and was getting ready to settle down and start a family. That ended Sept. 21, when a bullet shattered his skull. The next day, he was dead.
The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Sept. 22 that it has formed a group of Catholic leaders to advise him “on those issues and policies important to Catholics and other people of faith in America.”
As recent years have brought religious liberty court battles and the federal contraceptive mandate infringing on operations by church entities – along with a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy to be filled – 2016 might be a seminal electoral year.
Each year, October is designated as Respect Life Month by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and this year’s theme is “Moved by Mercy.”
Benedictine Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki of St. Vincent’s Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., was with Arnold Palmer when the golfing great died Sept. 25.
The aroma of fresh-baked spice cookies fills a monastery bakery in Ferdinand, Ind. The Sisters of St. Benedict claim this scent is truly “heavenly,” and with good reason. A saint wrote the recipe.
Ads appearing around the country “calling for taxpayer funding of abortion in the name of the Catholic faith” – an effort of the abortion advocacy group Catholics for Choice – are “deceptive” and promote “abortion as … a social good,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan.
“God’s Servant First: The Life and Legacy of Thomas More,” a new exhibit featuring artifacts revolving around St. Thomas More has opened at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., and will run through March, 2017.
