VATICAN CITY - Each of the 14 Conventual Franciscans who live in the Vatican and hear confessions full time in St. Peter’s Basilica offers absolution to an average of between 8,500 and 9,000 penitents each year.Read More
WESTMINSTER – In a year when only one man will be ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien praised the parishioners of St. John, Westminster, for having three of their own currently enrolled as seminarians for the archdiocese.Read More
NEW DELHI, India – Catholic leaders welcomed the prison sentences a court has given to five people convicted of taking part in the August 2008 anti-Christian violence in India’s Orissa state.Read More
INDIANAPOLIS – Daniel Pink, an author of books on the changing work world, told Catholic educators March 27 at the National Catholic Educational Association convention in Indianapolis they need to prepare students differently to succeed in today’s work force.Read More
WASHINGTON – Jim Cummings didn't exactly study his chosen career field during his 12 years of Catholic schooling, but he certainly honed his craft.Read More
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. – A funeral Mass was scheduled for March 27 at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis for Jon Hassler, an award-winning novelist and a professor emeritus of fiction at St. John’s University in Collegeville.Read More
In the March 10 issue of BusinessWeek, The Sellinger School of Business and Management of Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, was listed as one of the top 50 undergraduate business schools in the nation at number 45. This is the magazine’s third annual “Best Undergrad B-Schools” survey for which more than 125 schools were eligible...Read More
WASHINGTON – About 65 young pro-life activists picketed outside the California governor’s office demanding taxpayer money be used to fund education and law enforcement – two sectors affected by budget cuts – rather than for organizations that support abortions.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Commenting on the controversial case of a 9-year-old Brazilian rape victim who underwent an abortion, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said the concern the church needs to show the girl does not change the fact that abortion is wrong.Read More
Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming apostolic journey to the United States will soon make headlines, locally, nationally and internationally. How will we, the Catholic faithful, welcome and celebrate the presence of the successor of St. Peter among us? Why do we look forward to the pope’s April 15-20 visit to Washington and New York as so...Read More