BOSTON – New billboards featuring the Eucharist displayed in a monstrance aim to get the word out about the return of perpetual adoration to Boston after a 40-year absence.Read More
WASHINGTON – Converting a baseball stadium into a cathedral for a day has been a monumental task. “We’re doing everything possible to turn the stadium into a holy and beautiful place,” Father Mark Knestout, director of the Archdiocese of Washington’s Office of Worship, told the Catholic Standard, the archdiocesan newspaper.Read More
Rejecting a plea from Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Maryland Democratic Rep. John Sarbanes voted against an amendment to a health care reform bill July 30 that would have prohibited any mandated abortion coverage, except in cases of rape, incest or life-threatening danger to the mother.Read More
HOUSTON – As the 23 bells of the campanile at the new Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston called forth the faithful for its Mass of dedication, the special choir gathered for the occasion sang “The Church’s One Foundation.”Read More
WASHINGTON – Mexican immigration to the U.S. has continued to dwindle this year after being down at least 40 percent from 2005 to 2008, according to a July analysis released by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research organization.Read More
MEXICO CITY – Several Mexican bishops denied that the Catholic Church accepts donations from drug lords after the president of the Mexican bishops’ conference said drug traffickers have been “very generous” to the church.Read More
When Michele Catterton’s 8-year-old-son, Bradley, was lying in a Johns Hopkins Hospital bed this spring, the mother of three went every night to the chapel to pray.Read More
Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, has named Dr. Karyl Leggio as dean of its Sellinger School of Business and Management and Dr. Peter C. Murrell Jr. as founding dean of the School of Education effective July 1.Read More
LES COMBES, Italy – With his right hand immobilized in a cast, Pope Benedict XVI is using a voice recorder to put down his thoughts and ideas, said the Vatican spokesman.Read More
When seven young men from China walked into the Apostleship of the Sea International Seafarer Center, Dundalk, March 31, they conveniently provided a live description of precisely what Monsignor John L. FitzGerald was explaining at the moment to his three visitors – including a representative from the Vatican. The AOS director described to his guests...Read More
CINCINNATI – Ten inmates at Lebanon Correctional Institution north of Cincinnati experienced the sense of hope and promise of new life that accompanies the Easter season when they were welcomed into the Catholic Church March 23.Read More