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January 19, 2012

Congregation trying to decide how to respond to pope

ROME – As the General Congregation of the Society of Jesus discusses and deliberates the order’s present and future, one of the big questions faced by the 225 Jesuit delegates is how best to respond to the encouragements and concerns of Pope Benedict XVI.
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January 19, 2012

Actress brings message of hope to Catholic students

LOS ANGELES – During a candid and open exchange with Catholic high school students in Los Angeles, actress America Ferrera, star of the television show “Ugly Betty,” encouraged young people to overcome any obstacles in the way of achieving their dreams and to take advantage of unexpected opportunities.
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January 19, 2012

Pope urges Ukraine’s bishops to closely work with Latin rite

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI urged Ukraine’s Eastern-rite Catholic bishops to improve dialogue and work more closely with the nation’s Latin-rite Catholics.
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January 19, 2012

Sister blends faith, medicine in training top pediatric docs

Sister Karen Schneider, R.S.M., M.D., was just a fourth-year medical student when she found herself managing a malaria outbreak in a remote village in Guyana.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic University students design altar, chair for pope

WASHINGTON – When Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass April 17 at Nationals Park, he will use an altar and chair designed by two students at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
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January 19, 2012

Parishioner gives secrets of delivering a best man speech

The pressure was on for Steve Ryan to produce a great best man speech at the wedding of his good friend, Michael Williams. Mr. Williams had been Mr. Ryan’s best man more than a year earlier – delivering a stellar speech that guests remembered as funny, witty and touching.
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January 19, 2012

CRS says agencies won’t evacuate amid rising tension

NAIROBI, Kenya – A church aid worker said Catholic aid agencies in Kenya will not evacuate their staff, but he expressed concern over the increasing insecurity across the country.
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January 19, 2012

Youths gather to discuss keeping alive Holocaust memory

JERUSALEM – The murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis is a human tragedy that must not be forgotten regardless of one’s religion or nationality, said several Catholic participants in the first International Youth Congress on the Holocaust.
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January 19, 2012

Sister Dorothy Marie Hennessey, peace activist, dies

DUBUQUE, Iowa – Franciscan Sister Dorothy Marie Hennessey, a teacher turned activist who made national news at age 88 when she was sentenced to federal prison for trespassing at a Georgia military base, died Jan. 24 at the age of 94.
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January 19, 2012

Canadian bishop addresses hearings on aboriginal schools

OTTAWA – One of seven Canadian bishops who met for the first time with the Assembly of First Nations’ national chief said he hopes the upcoming hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will be balanced.
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January 19, 2012

Aim of science to help not the same as respect for life

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church supports scientific research aimed at helping people, but the destruction of human embryos or their use as “biological material” demonstrates that a desire to help does not always coincide with respect for every human being, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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January 19, 2012

Sainthood cause opened for founder of first black parish

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – The process to declare a former Brooklyn pastor a saint has begun. The name of Monsignor Bernard Quinn, founding pastor of St. Peter Claver Parish in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the first parish established for black Catholics in the Brooklyn Diocese, will be sent to Rome to be considered for canonization.
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