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- Canonization Mass in October will bring seven new saints
VATICAN CITY Like Pope Paul VI and Blessed John Paul II often did, Pope Benedict XVI will mark World Mission Sunday in October by creating new saints. In the United States and Canada, many people are aware that the saints to be proclaimed Oct. 21 at the Vatican include Blessed Marianne Cope of Molokai [...]
- Pope, new cardinals concelebrate Mass
VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI and the 22 new cardinals he created yesterday concelebrated Mass this morning in St. Peter’s Basilica. The pope used Bernini’s sculpture of the Chair of St. Peter to illustrate his homily since the Mass marked the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a liturgical solemnity that highlights Jesus [...]
- Pope creates 22 new cardinals, calls them to love, service
VATICAN CITY The Catholic Church officially has 22 new cardinals, including three from the United States and Canada: Cardinals Timothy M. Dolan of New York; Edwin F. O’Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem and former archbishop of Baltimore, Md.; and Thomas C. Collins of Toronto. Pope Benedict [...]
- Video: Cardinals-to-be on their role
We spoke this week with the three North American prelates who will become cardinals tomorrow. You can read CNS Rome bureau chief Francis X. Rocca story here and/or watch the video below. Filed under: CNS, Vatican
- Just between us
Nearly a week before the start of this years Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, I got a phone call from Father Sinclair Oubre, head of the Catholic Labor Network, one of the gatherings many co-sponsors that holds a wrap-around meeting the day before the formal kickoff. The discussion topics at the Catholic Labor Network meeting, he told [...]
- New cardinals not all from U.S. (thank God!)
Confession time: We Americans often are accused and rightly so of looking primarily at the U.S. angle to a worldwide story and forgetting to see the broader picture. And so it is with this weekends creation of 22 new cardinals for the worldwide church. Were all focused here on the two Americans [...]
- Valentines Day in China
Happy Valentines Day! Many Chinese are adopting Western cultural practices, and that includes Valentines Day. On the blog at UCA News, an Asian church news agency, writer Teresa Wang looks at how young people especially are celebrating Valentines Day, and she offers to alternative dates to celebrate love. Filed under: clients, UCA News
- Video excerpts: Interview with USCCB president on contraceptive mandate
Tonight in Rome we interviewed Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, about the bishops renewed opposition to the revised contraception mandate for health insurance announced last Friday by President Obama. You can read our story here or watch excerpts of our interview below. The New York archbishop arrived in [...]
- Vatican lawyer on plaintiffs decision to abandon 2010 Murphy sex abuse lawsuit
UPDATE: Sex abuse lawsuit against Vatican withdrawn ROME Jeffrey S. Lena, an American attorney for the Holy See, announced today that the plaintiffs in a 2010 federal lawsuit against the Vatican regarding Father Lawrence Murphy, who sexually abused students at a Milwaukee Catholic school for the deaf, have notified the court that they have decided [...]
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