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January 19, 2012

Pope relaxes restrictions on use of Tridentine Mass

LATE BREAKING VATICAN CITY – In a long-awaited overture to disaffected Catholic traditionalists, Pope Benedict XVI relaxed restrictions on the use of the Tridentine Mass, the Latin-language liturgy that predates the Second Vatican Council. The pope said Mass celebrated according to the 1962 Roman Missal, commonly known as the Tridentine rite, should be made available...
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January 19, 2012

Dialog newspaper to print biweekly, add online stories, videos

WILMINGTON, Del. – The Diocese of Wilmington will continue publishing The Dialog as a biweekly newspaper that will also expand its communications mission to the Internet with stories and video reports, Bishop W. Francis Malooly announced in August.
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January 19, 2012

Mexican priests give mixed reactions to US plan to stem drug violence

MEXICO CITY – Plans by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to deploy approximately 500 federal agents to the southern border region have been lauded by Mexico’s political leaders, but received mixed reviews from Catholic officials in northern Mexico.
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January 19, 2012

CRS clinic in Zambia helps orphans affected by HIV/AIDS

WASHINGTON – Nearly two years ago in the southern African nation of Zambia, Natasha Kangwa became an orphan and was diagnosed with HIV.
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January 19, 2012

Phoenix cathedral’s policy change on altar servers ignites discussion

PHOENIX – When the news broke that Father John Lankeit, rector of Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral, was changing policy on altar servers, secular media outlets were quick to offer their take on the development.
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January 19, 2012

Families drop appeal over Catholic school’s English-only policy

WICHITA, Kan. – The families of three Hispanic students have dropped their appeal of a judge’s ruling last summer that upheld an English-only policy at a Wichita Catholic elementary school.
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January 19, 2012

Fall Pastoral Spanish programs available at College of Notre Dame

Registrations are being accepted for the fall 2007 Pastoral Spanish program at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore. The program assists those in the archdiocese who minister to the Hispanic community and focuses on the culture, history and faith expressions of the diverse Latino population. The curriculum will include conversational Spanish and language...
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January 19, 2012

Libya’s rebel leader denies claims of Islamic extremists in group

TRIPOLI, Libya – The head of Libya’s rebel forces, claiming they had taken the capital, said dictator Moammar Gadhafi had tried to scare people by saying that Islamic extremists were part of the rebel movement.
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January 19, 2012

Blue-Ribbon panel begins work to save schools

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was surrounded by some of Maryland’s most prominent business and educational leaders as he started the first meeting of the Blue-Ribbon Committee charged with developing a long-term plan for Catholic schools March 18.
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January 19, 2012

Vocations camp for boys raises awareness about priesthood

Twelve-year-old Daniel Cohn doesn’t dream about becoming a major league baseball player or a Hollywood movie star. His goal in life is to become a priest and minister with soldiers as a U.S. Army chaplain. “I want to serve my country and preach about God,” said Daniel, a homeschooled parishioner of St. John the Evangelist,...
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January 19, 2012

World Youth Day vocations fair helps young people put God first

MADRID – As pilgrim Mark Horn mingled among hundreds of young people in an auditorium full of priests and women and men religious, the words he had just heard from Father Robert J. Barron cascaded through his mind.
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January 19, 2012

Four fibs and a waffle

On March 9, President Barack Obama gave my pro-life mother a nasty 95th birthday present: an executive order rescinding the restrictions that President Bush had placed on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. As policy, the executive order was even more an irresponsible blank check than many had feared it would be, according to...
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