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Pope recognizes Hildegard as saint, advances causes of US bishop, nun
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 5/18/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Although she was never canonized, St. Hildegard of Bingen is to be added to the Catholic Church's formal list of saints, and Catholics worldwide may celebrate her feast day with a Mass and special readings by order of Pope Benedict XVI.
Bishop Lynch says LCWR reform is not 'Armageddon' for group
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 5/18/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While a Vatican investigation or demand for reform can feel like the end of the world to the group or institution involved, Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg, Fla., said his experience has been that such actions are not devastating and actually can be opportunities.
Austria's pastoral Cardinal Schonborn works to hold his church together
By Jonathan Luxmoore
Posted: 5/18/2012
OXFORD, England (CNS) -- When discontented Austrian priests mark the first anniversary of their "Call to Disobedience" in June, it will highlight the difficulties facing Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna in holding his disparate Catholic community together.
Vatican to announce new ordinariate for Anglicans in Australia
By Sharyn McCowen
Posted: 5/18/2012
SYDNEY (CNS) -- Australia's new personal ordinariate will be a "homecoming" for former Anglicans joining the Catholic Church later this year.
Vatican says reconciliation talks with SSPX still ongoing
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 5/18/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Reconciliation talks between the Vatican and the Society of St. Pius X have not reached their conclusion but will continue, the Vatican said May 16, after members of its doctrinal congregation examined the latest communication from the head of the breakaway traditionalist group.
Postulator awaits Pope John Paul II's canonization
By Wlodzimierz Redzioch
Posted: 5/18/2012
ROME (ZENIT) -- Slawomir Oder was born in Chelmza, Poland, in 1960, and was ordained a priest 28 years later at Pelplinie, though the majority of his priestly life has been spent in Rome.
Vatican, Benetton reach out-of-court settlement over kissing-pope ad
By Carol Glatz
Posted: 5/18/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican and the Italian fashion house Benetton reached an out-of-court settlement after the Vatican took legal action against an ad campaign that depicted Pope Benedict XVI kissing a Muslim leader.
Bishops: Canadians experience 'worrisome erosion' of religious rights
By Deborah Gyapong
Posted: 5/15/2012
OTTAWA, Ontario (CNS) -- Canadian religious groups are "experiencing a worrisome erosion" of freedom of conscience and religious freedom -- universal rights that face increasing threats around the world, said the Canadian bishops.
U.S. seminarians win first Clericus Cup championship title
By Carol Glatz
Posted: 5/15/2012
ROME (CNS) -- For the first time, the Pontifical North American College took home the champion's title in the Clericus Cup soccer series.
Traditionalist leader says group could divide over unity with Rome
By Francis X. Rocca
Posted: 5/14/2012
MENZINGEN, Switzerland (CNS) -- The leader of a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics spoke in unusually hopeful terms about a possible reconciliation with Rome, but acknowledged significant internal resistance to such a move, which he said might lead to the group splitting apart.
Interreligious dialogue crucial for humanity, pope tells Jewish group
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 5/14/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Reaffirming the Second Vatican Council's teaching on Christianity's special relationship with Judaism, Pope Benedict XVI said Catholic-Jewish dialogue is "crucial for the future of our human family."
Pope tells American colleges to strengthen Catholic identity
By Francis X. Rocca
Posted: 5/11/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI called on America's Catholic colleges and universities to reaffirm their Catholic identity by ensuring orthodoxy in theological studies and accepting the oversight of bishops.
Church can educate, blow the whistle on human trafficking, say police
By Carol Glatz
Posted: 5/11/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- By partnering with law enforcement agencies, the Catholic Church and other organizations can help victims identify human traffickers and bring them to justice.
At 96, Blessed John XXIII's secretary tells tales of his famous boss
By Francis X. Rocca
Posted: 5/11/2012
SOTTO IL MONTE GIOVANNI XXIII, Italy (CNS) -- When the freshly named patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo G. Roncalli, chose 37-year old Father Loris F. Capovilla as his personal secretary in 1953, a skeptical adviser told the cardinal that the priest looked too sickly to bear the strain of his new job.
Hawaii bishop speaks about St. Damien, upcoming canonization of Blessed Marianne Cope
By Ann Schneible
Posted: 5/4/2012
ROME (ZENIT) -- In the Pontifical North American College stands a three-foot statue of St. Damien of Molokai, made from native Hawaiian Koa wood. Sculpted by Maui native Dale Zarrella, the statue depicts the Belgian-born saint as he would have been upon his first arrival to Hawaii: young, his face unmarked by the leprosy that would one day claim his life, hair and cassock blowing in the wind, and with one arm around a small child whose face is shielded by the saint's overcoat. The sculpture was blessed last week after evening prayer at the PNAC by Bishop Clarence Silva of Honolulu, Hawaii, while he was here in Rome for his ad limina pilgrimage.
Priests must live holy lives to be effective ministers, Vatican says
By Carol Glatz
Posted: 5/4/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Ten years after a historic papal response to clerical sex abuse, the Vatican urged priests to strive for greater holiness in their own lives so that they might effectively minister to others and reverse the tide of atheism.
Nigerian archbishops say government is failing to protect its citizens
By Catholic News Service
Posted: 5/4/2012
LONDON (CNS) -- The leader of the Catholic Church in Nigeria has criticized his government for allegedly failing to protect Christians in the north of his country from attack by Islamist terrorists.
Pope asks US donors to pray for religious freedom
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 4/27/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting a group of major U.S. donors to Catholic charitable works, Pope Benedict XVI asked them to pray "for the freedom of Christians to proclaim the Gospel and bring its light to the urgent moral issues of our time."
Holy Spirit inspires church's interpretation of Bible, pope says
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 4/27/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While the text of the Bible is fixed, the same Holy Spirit that inspired its writing continues to inspire its proclamation and interpretation in the church, Pope Benedict XVI said.
Reform of US nuns group an opportunity for dialogue, archbishop says
By Francis X. Rocca
Posted: 4/27/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A newly announced reform of an association of women's religious congregations in the U.S. offers the sisters and their bishops an opportunity to communicate and work together more closely, said the archbishop named by the Vatican to oversee the reform process.
Irish parliament rejects bill that would have legalized abortion
By Catholic News Service
Posted: 4/27/2012
DUBLIN (CNS) -- Ireland's parliament rejected legislation that would have allowed a controversial 1992 Supreme Court ruling permitting abortion in limited circumstances to take effect.
Religious liberty: Why a battle 1,700 years ago is relevant today
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 4/27/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For Vatican historians, the roots of a Christian idea of religious liberty go way back: in fact, back 1,700 years to the Emperor Constantine's victory on Rome's Milvian Bridge and to his conversion.
New Chinese bishop hopes to strengthen formation, evangelize
By Catholic News Service
Posted: 4/25/2012
NANCHONG, China (CNS) -- Bishop Joseph Chen Gong'ao was ordained April 19 as the bishop of Nanchong and made a pledge to strengthen formation and promote new evangelization.
As a man grows older: Papal milestones prompt celebration, speculation
By Francis X. Rocca
Posted: 4/20/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI's 85th birthday, April 16, and the seventh anniversary of his election, April 19, are obviously occasions for wishing the pope well and reflecting on the events of his reign thus far. Inevitably, however, these milestones also prompt speculation about what Vatican officials and observers refer to diplomatically as "papal transition."
Bavarian band, dancers celebrate pope's birthday in apostolic palace
By Carol Glatz
Posted: 4/20/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his 85th birthday with guests who treated him to Bavarian "oompah" music and folk dancing in the apostolic palace.
Citing doctrinal problems, Vatican announces reforms of US nuns' group
By Francis X. Rocca
Posted: 4/20/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Citing "serious doctrinal problems which affect many in consecrated life," the Vatican announced a major reform of an association of women's religious congregations in the U.S. to ensure their fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women's ordination and homosexuality.
Vatican says traditionalists' response marks 'step forward' in talks
By Cindy Wooden
Posted: 4/20/2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In what the Vatican described as an encouraging "step forward," the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X has revised its response to a Vatican document laying out certain basic doctrinal principles and criteria for interpreting church teaching.
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