Contact Us | Report Misconduct | Catholic Review | Policies | Careers | myArch | Outlook365

News

January 19, 2012

St. Teresa Benedicta

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born with the name Edith Stein in what is now Wroclaw, Poland, in October 1891 to a Jewish family. She received a doctorate in philosophy in 1916. After seeing the strong faith of her Catholic friends, she began to study the catechism of the Catholic Church. She converted...
Read More
January 19, 2012

Modern martyr: Polish priest was man of ‘deep conviction, integrity’

WARSAW, Poland – When a Catholic priest who was murdered by communist agents is beatified in Warsaw June 6, it will confirm his place as one of the church’s most conspicuous modern martyrs.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Our Lady of Sorrows

Today is the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. St. John the Evangelist wrote in his Gospel that Mary was overwhelmed with grief as she stood at the foot of Jesus’ cross. There are traditionally seven sorrows of Mary: the prophecy of Simeon, the flight into Egypt, the loss of the child Jesus for three...
Read More
January 19, 2012

St. Pius X to host Montessori primary program

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien announced May 18 that St. Pius X Catholic School in Rodgers Forge will become the first school in the archdiocese to offer its students a Montessori education. The school will introduce a primary program for children ages 3-6 in the 2011-12 school year.
Read More
January 19, 2012

St. Bertilla

St. Bertilla Boscardin was born on Oct. 6, 1888, in Brendola, Italy. After working as a house servant when she was a young girl, she joined the Sisters of St. Dorothy, Daughters of the Sacred Heart in 1904. She began training as a nurse in 1907 and was later assigned to the hospital in Treviso....
Read More
January 19, 2012

Christians being martyred by words in ideological war, says Australian bishop

SYDNEY, Australia – Christians in the Western world are being martyred by words in a war of ideology, said the president of the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania.
Read More
January 19, 2012

St. Sabbas

St. Sabbas was born in Cappadocia in 439. An anchorite as of age 30, he renounced the world in order to devote his life to prayer and work. He wove baskets, which he took to a monastery led by St. Euthymius to trade for food and materials to make more baskets. When St. Euthymius died,...
Read More
January 19, 2012

In Portuguese capital, pope urges Catholics to re-evangelize

LISBON, Portugal – At a Mass for more than 100,000 people in Portugal, Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics to re-evangelize society by witnessing the joy and hope of the Gospel in every sector of contemporary life.
Read More
January 19, 2012

In West Bank, camps introduce youths to concept of nonviolence

BEIT SAHOUR, West Bank – Bara’a Srur, 19, leaned over the edge of a sixteen-and-a-half foot wall with rappelling gear tied around his hips. His right hand held the rope tightly in place behind his back and he peered cautiously over his shoulder, down to where a counselor was holding the other end of the...
Read More
January 19, 2012

Hispanic young adults united in faith

Norma Urbina, a 23-year-old parishioner of St. Clare parish in Essex, thinks it can be difficult to be a Latino young adult in the Archdiocese of Baltimore
Read More
January 19, 2012

Catholics in western India baffled by priest’s murder

NEW DELHI – Catholics in a western Indian diocese say they are baffled by the murder of a 74-year-old priest.
Read More
January 19, 2012

South African church officials praise Zuma for telling his HIV status

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Church officials praised South African President Jacob Zuma for repeatedly testing for HIV and announcing his status, saying it indicated a new political willingness to address the AIDS epidemic in South Africa.
Read More
1 … 1,176 1,177 1,178 1,179 1,180 … 1,759
En español »