VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Repeating a remark he often has made since former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003, Cardinal Renato Martino expressed hope that the deposed dictator would not be executed. "There is no doubt" that Saddam was a ruthless dictator responsible for hundreds of deaths, said Cardinal Martino, president of the...Read More
VATICAN CITY – New revelations about clerical sex abuse cases, particularly in Europe, led Pope Benedict XVI and his top aides in 2010 to look for ways to refine policies for handling accusations and strengthening child protection programs.Read More
Catholic Relief Services officials told about 50 dignitaries touring the renovation site of their new headquarters Dec. 15 they hope to move all 350 employees from their current building on Fayette Street to the old Stewarts Building, the former grand dame of Baltimore department stores, by July 2007. “It will once again be a building...Read More
PHOENIX – St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix can no longer identify itself as “Catholic,” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted announced during a Dec. 21 news conference in Phoenix at the Diocesan Pastoral Center.Read More
WASHINGTON – Despite evidence that sex-selection abortions may be occurring in the United States, U.S. law affords “less protection from sex-based feticide” than India or China do, according to proposed legislation that is to be introduced soon in the House of Representatives.Read More
Raymond A. Grosswirth of Rochester, N.Y., and Dominic Riccio of Newark are the latest married men to be illicitly ordained Catholic priests by excommunicated Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo. Like the married Zambian archbishop who ordained them, the two were automatically excommunicated for participating in an ordination ceremony not sanctioned by the church.Read More
ALBANY, N.Y. - An Albany-area Catholic couple’s plan to bring orthopedic surgery where it is sorely needed – the Cape Coast area of the West African country of Ghana – has ballooned into a charitable organization with 15 directors, countless donors and support from the Vatican and the Archdiocese of Cape Coast.Read More
WASHINGTON – Carl A. Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, wants to talk with Sen. Joseph Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate.Read More
Maria Santini of Parkville received an early Christmas present during her weekly visit to St. Michael the Archangel, Overlea. Dec. 3 – a Mass celebrated in her native Spanish language The Venezuelan-born parishioner of the church joined her two daughters and bilingual husband, along with more than 100 fellow Spanish-speaking Catholics, for the parish’s first...Read More
MEXICO CITY – When Nora Hilda Rodriguez was studying in college, she noticed that her Protestant friends always carried their Bibles, which they frequently consulted.Read More