by James Breig Telephones began ringing and e-mails started flying after an article appeared in the July 26 issue of The Tablet, recounting the World War II experiences of John A. La Barbera of Corona. The story, based on 45 letters he wrote from the South Pacific to a friend back home, told of La […]
by Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – As the head of a small evangelical college serving 2,400 undergraduates and 600 graduate students, the Rev. Philip Graham Ryken has no quarrel with contraception on religious grounds but doesn’t want any part of a health insurance plan that offers certain drugs that can cause abortions. So the […]
Pope Benedict XVI has finished the third volume of his opus, “Jesus of Nazareth,” and perhaps also will publish an encyclical letter during the upcoming Year of Faith, said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state. “It is a great gift for the Year of Faith,” the cardinal told reporters in Les Combes di Introd, […]
Last month, the Dominican Sisters of Amityville and their associates gathered for a week to conduct their Chapter of Affairs – 2012 at the motherhouse to pray together, discuss their gifts and resources and make decisions as to how they will move forward in the Mission of Jesus. Groups of eight or nine spent the […]
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (CNS) – The City Council of Steubenville has not reached a final decision on whether it will keep a silhouette of Franciscan University’s chapel in an unofficial city logo. News outlets reported in late July that the city has been threatened with a lawsuit by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, which claims […]
A man carries a statue of St. Cayetano during the annual gathering and pilgrimage dedicated to the patron saint of labor and bread in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 6. Thousands of pilgrims flock to St. Cayetano Church annually to show their dedication to the saint and ask for bread, work and peace.
Msgr. James P. King, who served as the chancellor of the Diocese of Brooklyn from 1965 to 1976 and vicar general from 1979 to 1995, died early on Aug. 1 at Bishop Mugavero Residence, Douglaston, where he resided since 2002. He would have been 92 on Aug 8. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated […]
ANTIETAM CREEK, Md. (CNS) – Three days and 30 miles into a 100-mile trek to Baltimore from the tiny central Maryland town of Hancock, Laura Dudich lost count of her blisters. “My foot is covered in Band-Aids right now,” said the 17-year-old parishioner of St. Peter Church in Hancock, pausing briefly July 31 as she […]
by Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – Since the courts will not act quickly enough to protect the religious liberty concerns prompted by the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate, Congress must “address this urgent and fundamental issue before it completes its business this year,” Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo told members of the House and Senate. “Timely […]
by Brian T. Olszewski MILWAUKEE (CNS) – The killing of six Sikhs Aug. 5 at their temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wis., brought an outpouring of spiritual support from leaders in the Catholic community, as well as a call for the entire community to examine violence in U.S. culture. Assuring the Sikh […]
