VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In the hectic days before Christmas as people get ready for the holidays, may no one forget to prepare internally for the coming of Christ, Pope Benedict XVI said. He asked that people dedicate the same kind of energy and care they pour into making their homes and neighborhoods more beautiful […]
Continue readingBy: By Joseph McAleer, Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) — The Hogwarts gang is on the run in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” (Warner Bros.), the penultimate film in the wildly successful franchise based on J.K. Rowling’s fantasy novels. As in Rowling’s final volume, the tone here is darker, the action […]
Continue readingWASHINGTON (CNS) — The American College of the Immaculate Conception in Leuven, Belgium, will close at the end of this academic year because of the small number of seminarians and difficulties in obtaining qualified priests for its faculty. The decision to close it in June 2011 was announced to the public Nov. 22 by Bishop […]
Continue readingPope creates new cardinals, telling them authority means service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI created 24 new cardinals, including two from the United States, and called them to be strong in spreading and defending the faith and promoting peace and tranquility within the church. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington and Cardinal Raymond […]
Continue readingBy: By Joseph McAleer, Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) — The Hogwarts gang is on the run in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” (Warner Bros.), the penultimate film in the wildly successful franchise based on J.K. Rowling’s fantasy novels. As in Rowling’s final volume, the tone here is darker, the action […]
Continue readingVATICAN CITY (CNS) — God constantly tries to enter into dialogue with the people he created — speaking through creation and even through silence, but mainly in the church through the Bible and through his son Jesus Christ, Pope Benedict XVI said. In his apostolic exhortation, “Verbum Domini” (“The Word of the Lord”), the pope […]
Continue readingWASHINGTON (CNS) — Singer Grace Griffith knew what Pope John Paul II was going through once he became afflicted with Parkinson’s disease. Griffith, 54, received her own diagnosis of Parkinson’s in 1998. Her brother had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1992. Moreover, when not paying the bills with her music, Griffith was a physical therapist […]
Continue readingBy: By Deacon Eric Meisfjord, Catholic News Service SPOKANE, Wash. (CNS) — Oddly enough, a massive Catholic Internet information hub with global reach got its start when someone asked the question, “Who are these people sitting in the pews with me?” The person asking the question was Dan Roach, an attorney and member of St. […]
Continue readingBy: By John Thavis, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI named 24 new cardinals, including two from the United States: Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest tribunal, and Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington. The pope announced the names at the end of his weekly general audience Oct. […]
Continue readingST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — Before pastors had an opportunity to explain during Masses Oct. 16-17 how a strategic plan for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis would affect their parishes, local media mistakenly announced the closure of some churches in northeast Minneapolis. Although the strategic plan will reduce the number of parishes in […]
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