When Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien referred to the rector of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen as “the indomitable, irrepressible Monsignor Robert Armstrong,” hundreds of parishioners interrupted the archbishop's Nov. 15 cathedral homily with applause.Read More
PATERSON, N.J. – A worldwide celebration of Masses Dec. 9 will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of famed author, lecturer and television evangelizer Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, as well as promote his cause for canonization.Read More
George and Betsy Weigel would have marked their diamond wedding anniversary on Nov. 12 – “would have,” because my father died on Oct. 19, 2004, and my mother died, at age 95½ , this past Oct. 25.Read More
BEAUMONT, Texas – “We hope and pray that our soldiers do not die on the battlefields. Then something like this happens on one of our bases by a fellow soldier,” said Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Beaumont about the Nov. 5 shootings at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas that left 13 dead and...Read More
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican said it experienced “surprise and sorrow” when a European court ruled that the crucifixes hanging in Italian public schools violate religious freedom.Read More
I'm not sure how Tony Magliano (CR, Oct. 29) knows that “... many Catholics concern themselves only with one life issue while largely ignoring the rest. They claim their cause trumps all the rest.”Read More
VATICAN CITY – After three weeks of discussion and strategizing, the Synod of Bishops for Africa ended with calls for spiritual conversion and social reforms on the African continent.Read More
When Marc Franklin first walked through the doors of Boys Hope at the age of 12, he remembers being “scared, but really excited at the same time.”Read More
NEW ORLEANS – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople opened a symposium on the environmental challenges in the Mississippi River region Oct. 21 by reasserting the role people of faith play in caring for the earth’s resources.Read More
As I watched the World Youth Day celebration on television, I was overwhelmed by the happiness and the joy of so many young people represented by so many countries having the opportunity to give witness to their Catholic Faith and to be the guests of Pope Benedict XVI (CR, July 24). Who would have ever...Read More