by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — Receiving ashes at the beginning of Lent is a call to repentance and humility and a sign that believers know that death will not have the final word in their lives, Pope Benedict XVI said. The pope’s Ash Wednesday Mass Feb. 22 was preceded by a procession […]
by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – When Pope Benedict XVI created 22 new cardinals from 13 countries – including three from the United States and Canada – he placed red hats on their heads and called them to lives of even greater love and service to the Church. The churchmen […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Leaders and members of the Catholic Church do not have the authority to determine its teaching and structure but are called to ensure its fidelity to Jesus and to the faith passed on by the apostles, Pope Benedict XVI told the 22 new cardinals he created. “The church is not self-regulating, […]
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) – Forty-nine Catholic schools in the Philadelphia Archdiocese will form 23 regional schools and 10 schools will close outright, according to a Feb. 17 announcement by Philadelphia Auxiliary Bishop Michael J. Fitzgerald, who oversees the Secretariat for Catholic Education. At a press briefing, the bishop released the final decision on closings or consolidations […]
by Marie Elena Giossi Representing various backgrounds, dialects, parishes and ministries, local black Catholics converged on Our Lady of Light parish, St. Albans, for the 32nd annual diocesan Black History Month Mass of thanksgiving last Sunday, Feb. 19. Sponsored by the diocesan Vicariate of Black Catholic Concerns (VBCC), this year’s celebration focused upon the history, […]
by Paul Sanchez When there were events to commemorate the 100th birthday of the late President Ronald Reagan on Feb. 6, 2011, the media ignored the fact that Reagan was a lifelong member of the Disciples of Christ, a small denomination also known as “The Christian Church.” Incredibly, the Disciples of Christ, whose […]
ORCHARD LAKE, Mich. – Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron, of Detroit, in the presence of Cardinal Edmund Szoka, celebrated the installation of Brooklyn priest, Father Canon Thomas C. Machalski, Jr., as the 11th successor to Father Joseph Dabrowski, founder of Orchard Lake Schools, and the third chancellor of these institutions. Archbishop Vigneron was joined by Msgr. […]
Our warmest congratulations and heartfelt sentiments of esteem go out to Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. This tremendous honor, added to the dignity of his important office, is both fitting and well-merited. But Cardinal Dolan, with his familiar serio-comic humor, was quick to put his elevation in perspective, saying that he would sooner be […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI created 22 new cardinals from 13 countries — including three from the United States and Canada — placing red hats on their heads and calling them to lives of even greater love and service to the church. The churchmen who joined the College of Cardinals Feb. 18 included […]
It’s one thing to believe in the “sexual revolution,” take a little pill and profess your convictions to your heart’s content. It’s another thing to force those of other creeds to pay for it. In America, we do not have an established religion. But wait. Enter the “Affordable Care Act,” radically re-defining health “care,” where […]
