Editors: Updates throughout. UPDATED version of BISHOPS-ROUNDUP of Nov. 15, 2010: By Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The 2010 fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was devoted primarily to internal matters — the election of new conference leaders, discussion of how their own statements should be produced, budgetary and structural [...]
Archive for November, 2010
By Nancy Frazier O’Brien/Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — By a nearly unanimous vote, the U.S. bishops agreed to the preparation of a brief policy statement on assisted suicide, which they will debate and vote on at their spring assembly in June. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life [...]
Youth from three states gathered Nov. 12-14 in Little Rock for this year’s Region X Catholic Youth Conference titled Ignite your heart; Work for justice; Transform the world. The three-day regional event is held every other year and is composed of dioceses in the Region 10 states of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. This year 71 [...]
St. Catherine of Siena Catholic School, Port Arthur, students celebrated Thanksgiving a week early with a performance Nov. 18 for their families. After performing, the families stayed to eat a Thanksgiving themed lunch with the children.
Arzobispo: rol del Vaticano en la ONU es mantener la dignidad de todo ser humano
Posted in CNS on November 19, 2010 |
Por Beth Griffin Catholic News Service NUEVA YORK (CNS) — La Misión Permanente de Observador de la Santa Sede ante las Naciones Unidas tiene un rol único que no puede ser satisfecho por ningún otro grupo en el cuerpo mundial, según el arzobispo Francis Assisi Chullikatt, el nuevo representante del Vaticano ante el cuerpo mundial. [...]
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — For years, Christian leaders have recognized a waning enthusiasm for ecumenism, but now they are warning that too many Christians assume their divisions and differences just don’t matter. Whether a divided Christianity is an anomaly, as an eminent Orthodox theologian said, or the result of [...]
By John Thavis Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The church’s 24 new cardinals will join a unique institution that has grown dramatically in membership and has gradually been internationalized in recent decades. Just as when it originated more than 850 years ago, the College of Cardinals remains an all-male, all-clerical body that advises [...]
Parishioners of St. Mary, Fannett, will be able to worship in their church for the first time Nov. 21 since it was ravaged by Hurricane Ike. Hundreds will gather with Bishop Curtis Guillory, SVD, to celebrate the rite of dedication. After taking a beating from Ike Sept. 13, 2008, the church was left with no [...]
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Thanks to a discount from Sony and a contribution from the Knights of Columbus, the Vatican television center has a multimillion-dollar high-definition mobile television studio, which will be operational in time for the pope’s Christmas midnight Mass. The Vatican unveiled the mobile studio — a [...]
By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops approved a $180 million balanced budget for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2011, but they refused to agree to an increase in the assessment on dioceses to fund the conference’s work in 2012. The votes Nov. 16 followed a generally [...]
