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January 19, 2012

Spencer Tracy, Hollywood priest

NEW YORK – Screen legend Spencer Tracy (1900-1967), who won one of his two Academy Awards for portraying a priest during Hollywood’s golden age, played Catholic clergymen three other times, but was never comfortable with it, reveals a forthcoming book about the star.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican says recent apologies from traditionalist bishop aren’t enough

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican said Bishop Richard Williamson’s statement of regret for denying the extent of the Holocaust does not meet the Vatican’s demand that he publicly recant his position.
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January 19, 2012

Musicologists find gems in scores found in Bolivian mission churches

CONCEPCION, Bolivia – While the painstakingly restored churches in eastern Bolivia may be the crown jewels of South America’s colonial Jesuit missions, the real gems were found in several decrepit boxes after nearly two centuries of neglect.
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January 19, 2012

Cathedral parishioner swims for U.S. in Rome, Paris and now Shanghai

There are days when Elizabeth Pelton laments rising before 5 a.m. to train or the necessity of using Skype to have her father join family dinners in Ruxton, but those sacrifices all seem worth it this week.
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January 19, 2012

Trade pleasures for prayer this Lent

On Ash Wednesday, we began Lent. Lent runs from Ash Wednesday until the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday. Pope John Paul II, our late great pope, made the following statement. “Lent is a time of profound truth which brings conversion, restores hope and by putting everything back in its proper order brings...
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January 19, 2012

Vatican official: Catholic schools must teach values in media ethics

VATICAN CITY – It makes little sense for the Catholic Church to complain about ethical failures in the media if it is not paying attention to educating future communicators in ethics, said Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
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January 19, 2012

Blogging for clarity: Fides launches site for Chinese Catholics

VATICAN CITY – Sometimes the need for delicacy in handling politically sensitive situations conflicts with the need of the faithful to have clear guidance. That’s what seems to be going on with the Vatican’s China policy, particularly surrounding the ordination in June of a bishop without papal approval.
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January 19, 2012

Seton Keough senior thrives in spotlight

When Beth Amann took the stage as Dorothy Gale in “The Wizard of Oz” three years ago at The Seton Keough High School, she was a freshman looking for a niche.
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January 19, 2012

Doctrine with calmness and clarity

Last week’s Catholic Review related the return to the Church after many years of the best-selling novelist Anne Rice – make that Anne O’Brien Rice (no relation)! Married to an atheist in her late teens and now 66, she described most of her adult life in terms of “despair, guilt and search for meaning and...
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January 19, 2012

Catholic agencies dropped as Illinois foster care providers over same-sex unions

WASHINGTON – The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has informed four Catholic dioceses that it will not renew their contracts to provide foster care and adoption services because there has been “no meeting of the minds” about providing services to same-sex couples.
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January 19, 2012

Daniel Medinger reflects on 24 years at The Catholic Review

Daniel Medinger broke into the news business at age 10.
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January 19, 2012

Memorial Day may have begun with a small, touching moment

The actual origin of Memorial Day, once called Decoration Day, is unclear, except that at first it was most certainly a response to the terrible tragedy of the Civil War in which so many Americans on both sides died on and off the battlefields.
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