BEAUMONT, Texas – “We hope and pray that our soldiers do not die on the battlefields. Then something like this happens on one of our bases by a fellow soldier,” said Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Beaumont about the Nov. 5 shootings at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas that left 13 dead and...Read More
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican said it experienced “surprise and sorrow” when a European court ruled that the crucifixes hanging in Italian public schools violate religious freedom.Read More
I'm not sure how Tony Magliano (CR, Oct. 29) knows that “... many Catholics concern themselves only with one life issue while largely ignoring the rest. They claim their cause trumps all the rest.”Read More
A funeral Mass for Brother Earl Vincent Kent, S.S.J., will be offered May 28 at St. Francis Xavier, Baltimore. Brother Earl, who chronicled Josephite life through his photography and served as an associate at St. Francis Xavier and St. Veronica, Cherry Hill, died May 22 following a long illness at St. Joseph Manor, where he...Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has named Father Neil Tiedemann, a Brooklyn-born member of the provincial council for the Passionist order, as bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica.Read More
VATICAN CITY – After three weeks of discussion and strategizing, the Synod of Bishops for Africa ended with calls for spiritual conversion and social reforms on the African continent.Read More
St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore’s Sarah’s Hope, a 24-hour shelter and resource center serving homeless families and single women, will no longer operate from the Eastern Family Resource Center in Rosedale, effective June 30.Read More
NEW ORLEANS – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople opened a symposium on the environmental challenges in the Mississippi River region Oct. 21 by reasserting the role people of faith play in caring for the earth’s resources.Read More