Contact Us | Report Misconduct | Catholic Review | Policies | Careers | myArch | Outlook365

News

January 19, 2012

A Duty to God

All Scouts have a promise, oath or law to abide. Certain ideals are common to each oath – a “Duty to God” being one. Scouting does not dictate what god a Scout must honor – that is of one’s own choosing. Faith and belief are the key elements. In the Scout Law, it is known...
Read More
January 19, 2012

Israeli ambassador to Vatican praises Pius XII, then backs off

VATICAN CITY – Israel’s ambassador to the Vatican caused a controversy when he made unusually positive comments about Pope Pius XII’s role in efforts to save Jews during World War II. Days later, he modified his position to say that his comments were personal and historically premature.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Obama orders faith-based office be reworked, its scope expanded

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama created by executive order Feb. 5 a White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which will expand upon and rework the Bush administration’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
Read More
January 19, 2012

At Soweto parish, first lady urges young people to lead Africa’s future

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – First lady Michelle Obama urged a crowd of more than 2,000 that included hundreds of young women to help shape Africa’s future by combating corruption, building strong democratic institutions and working to improve the lives of the poor and sick in a speech at Regina Mundi Church in Soweto.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Dangers of premature reconciliation

Given the unique status of the Holocaust as an icon of evil in a morally confused world, Holocaust-denial triggers revulsions similar to those triggered by blasphemy in the Middle Ages: the Holocaust-denier must be shunned, for everyone else’s moral health. Thus it was completely understandable that, when Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of four...
Read More
January 19, 2012

Parishioners says farewell to “face of St. Ann”

The savior of St. Ann parish in Baltimore City is moving on, but she will not be forgotten anytime soon.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Bishop’s remarks on Holocaust strain US Jewish-Catholic relations

WASHINGTON – Strained Jewish-Catholic relations are being felt beyond the Vatican and Israel as U.S. rabbis express their displeasure with Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to lift the excommunication of a traditionalist bishop who has minimized the severity and extent of the Holocaust.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Papal mass in Berlin may move to Nazi-built stadium, organizer says

VATICAN CITY – So many people want to see Pope Benedict XVI celebrate Mass in Berlin in September that organizers are considering holding the event in an Olympic stadium built under Adolf Hitler, the papal trip planner said.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Clergy stances on life issues need clarification

I would like the church to respond to the excellent letters (Jan. 29, CR) from Kaitlin Moran and Mike Brady. I am just as confused as they are regrading the standing of the Catholic Church on the issues of abortion, embryonic stem cell research, gay marriages and the Freedon of Choice Act, and what we...
Read More
January 19, 2012

Government forces kill two church workers in Sudanese border state

WASHINGTON – Two church workers were murdered by government forces in Sudan’s South Kordofan state in what one church adviser called a campaign of “ethnic cleansing.”
Read More
January 19, 2012

MCC raises grave concerns about Gov. O’Malley’s budget

A day after Gov. Martin J. O’Malley released his Jan. 20 budget in Annapolis, leaders of the Maryland Catholic Conference expressed grave concerns about how it could hurt the poor, children in nonpublic schools and the unborn.
Read More
,
January 19, 2012

NBC family-friendly film explores issue of bullying, ways to respond

WASHINGTON – Kit Johansen has been working on anti-bullying initiatives in the Diocese of Palm Beach, Fla., since 2006 to raise schools’ and parishes’ awareness about the problem and to let children know they are not powerless in the face of bullying.
Read More
1 … 956 957 958 959 960 … 1,759
En español »