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January 19, 2012

Italian priest on anti-crime task force shot dead in Philippines

ARAKAN, Philippines – An Italian priest doing mission work in a remote area of the southern Philippines was gunned down inside the compound of Mother of Perpetual Help Parish in Arakan, said a local official.
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January 19, 2012

In Jordan, pope backs efforts for ‘alliance of civilizations’

AMMAN, Jordan – Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Jordan on the first leg of a Holy Land pilgrimage and praised the country’s efforts to oppose conflict and violence between the West and the Islamic world.
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January 19, 2012

Minister apologizes to Catholics; some question if politics behind it

WASHINGTON – After the Rev. John Hagee, a San Antonio televangelist, sent a letter to the head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights apologizing for any comments he made “that Catholics have found hurtful,” the league’s president, William Donohue, said that “the case is closed.”
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January 19, 2012

Challenge to abortion is to judge less

It was a galaxy far away and a time long ago, which means that the story I’m about to tell happened somewhere else in the distant past. It’s a story that did not have a happy beginning. A young woman was pregnant and decided she should have an abortion. Her mother agreed with her, and...
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January 19, 2012

Disability doesn’t limit possibilities for Massachusetts athlete

CHICOPEE, Mass. – A few weeks ago, a friend came to Gina Gilday’s Elms College dorm room and asked to borrow a pair of socks.
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January 19, 2012

Israeli ambassador emphasizes ‘smoothing things up’ at Vatican

ROME – Israeli ambassadors to the Vatican have a tradition of being press-friendly, and Mordechay Lewy is no exception.
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January 19, 2012

Immigrant advocates praise California governor for action on DREAM Act

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles and immigrant advocate groups praised Gov. Jerry Brown for signing into law the rest of the California DREAM Act, allowing undocumented students who have graduated from a California high school to apply for state financial aid to attend college at a state school.
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January 19, 2012

Clarksville students take Oprah-esque approach to charity

Thanks to a lot of hard work, ingenuity and goodwill, fifth-graders at St. Louis School in Clarksville have transformed a $300 gift from their teacher into a $1,015 outreach campaign that is touching lives in their community, across the nation and around the world.
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January 19, 2012

African Cardinal Gantin, former Vatican official, dies in Paris

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, a pioneering church figure for Africa and an influential voice at the Vatican for more than 30 years, died in Paris May 13 at the age of 86.
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January 19, 2012

Funeral for Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai set for Oct. 8

WASHINGTON - A funeral Mass for Wangari Maathai, a Catholic environmentalist and political leader who became the first black African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was set for Oct. 8 in Holy Family Minor Basilica in Nairobi, Kenya.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien leads pilgrimage to national shrine

Albert Vojik was awestruck as he stared at the gigantic mosaic of Christ in Majesty that looked down from the great dome of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
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January 19, 2012

Pope tells Armenian Orthodox God can work miracle of Christian unity

VATICAN CITY – God can work miracles, including the miracle of Christian unity, Pope Benedict XVI told the Armenian Orthodox patriarch and 18 bishops.
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