" It looks like Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson of Ghana is now firmly in this group known as the papabili, or possible popes. John Allen, the veteran vaticanista for the U.S.-based National...
" The Roman Catholic Church has expressed "unease" and "mortification" over revelations surrounding the private life of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. In some of the strongest Church criticism to date, the newspaper...
" It has been 14 years since her last major apparition in Ireland but the Virgin Mary is back and this time in the lowly form of a tree stump in Limerick. To the dismay of local Catholic church leaders, the...
Since taking office, President Barak Obama and his allies in Congress have careened into the headlines and pummelled Republicans still reeling from defeat and dissent within their own...
opinion by Mortal | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 719 views | 36 recommendations | 18 comments
RADIO NEWS DIRECTORS, NOTE: A shorter version of this wrapper, running 00:01:48 with standard outcue, is at this link. Tributes are pouring in from the interfaith dialogue community for Voorhees resident Zia...
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" Troops in the Philippines have seized a separatist camp and killed 30 rebels on Mindanao island, the military says. The army said its soldiers found large caches of weapons and ammunition when they entered the...
Hong Kong's former church leader spoke about the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and during a press conference on Monday. " Cardinal Joseph Zen said he wanted an official inquiry into what happened so future generations could tell the...
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VATICAN CITY, MAY 24, 2009 (Zenit.org). The Church's challenge in the era of Facebook and Twitter consists in presenting the profound message of Jesus without being sidetracked by technology's superficial aspects, says the Vatican spokesperson. Jesuit Father Federico...
opinion by Pastoor Geudens | 26 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago 98 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Forest Hills, PA - An 89 year old woman has been killed, and four others injured, after a priest`s car crashed into churchgoers outside their church on Good Friday. Madeline Romell had to have her leg amputated,...
Good Friday is an important day on the Christian calendar but it is not a Catholic holy day of obligation. Holy days of obligation are the Catholic equivalent of statutory holidays. They are days on which all Catholics must go to mass and must adhere to Canon Law. ...
created by Tina Kells | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago 4244 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
Good Friday and Holy Saturday are the last two days of Holy Week and, if you are Catholic, on these days you must not eat meat. Catholics don't eat meat on all Friday's during Lent, the 40 days and nights between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday, but not eating meat on Good...
created by Tina Kells | 33 wks ago | updated 32 wks ago 2217 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
This follows on from a post I made earlier. The Catholic Church is well-known for imposing restrictions on what women can do with their bodies. According to the rules of the Catholic Church, women cannot take the pill, have an abortion, or do anything to their bodies which...
The fallout from the Pope's words on condom use last week is starting to reach across the globe. I wonder if the Pope realizes how his words can devastate public health worldwide, and fuel more HIV...
Today, March 19 2009, is a little known holiday called St Joseph' Day, also known as the Feast of St. Joseph or the Solemnity of Saint Joseph. The is the feast day of Saint Joseph, husband to the Virgin Mary. This...
created by Amy Judd | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago 606 views | 26 recommendations | 2 comments
As if shifting to government the cost of educating children in their parochial schools isn't enough, now the Archdiocese of Washington is trying to maximize their real estate profits at the expense of low-income...
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