WASHINGTON – With a July 4 vote by the General Synod of the United Church of Christ, a common agreement on baptism by the U.S. Catholic Church and four Protestant church communities cleared its final hurdle.Read More
Coaches may be charged with making sure athletes perform at their very best at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, but it’s seminarians who help nurture their spiritual well-being.Read More
VATICAN CITY – While empirical science has done much to further progress, subjecting God and his truth to scientific scrutiny represents an incorrect and despotic use of human reason, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More
Following a Catholic News Service article in the Feb. 5 issue of The Catholic Review quoting Catholic Health Association representatives, there may be some confusion about whether the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) poses a threat to Catholic health care and what we should be doing to oppose it. As a physician and the president...Read More
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Murderers should not be buried from Catholic churches, and recipients of stolen property should be banned from receiving Communion, Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg said at the funeral of a murdered priest.Read More
It was a moving day indeed for Father Warren Tanghe, a former Anglican priest of 37 years, as he was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary June 24.Read More
HONG KONG – Bishop John Baptist Liang Xisheng of Kaifeng died Sept. 23 of a brain embolism, the Asian church news agency UCA News reported Oct. 12. He was 84.Read More
Transitional Deacon Warren Tanghe’s path to the Catholic priesthood may have been long and winding, but the former Anglican priest will be open to all the gifts of the holy spirit as he is ordained June 24 at 6 p.m. in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary...Read More
As expected, President Obama has begun his campaign to promote abortion from the White House. Instead of simply reacting angrily, prolifers need to breathe deeply and think seriously about what’s going on and what’s likely to happen next.Read More
LATROBE, Pa. – Blessed Mother Teresa’s niece told an audience at St. Vincent College in Latrobe Oct. 6 that she remembers her father, Lazar, telling stories about growing up with the older sister who would become the famous nun.Read More