WASHINGTON – Asian and Pacific Catholics will hold a one-day celebration of faith and heritage at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., Saturday, May 19, marking its 10th anniversary this year. The event includes a procession with Marian images venerated throughout Asia and the Pacific, crowning of the [...]
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By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Catholic population stood at 58.9 million in 2010, according to a new census of religious congregations. The number of Catholics is lower than the 62 million Catholics reported in 2000, but the difference is due to a change in the way data was collected [...]
By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Obama administration has issued guidelines for how federally funded faith-based programs should be administered, ranging from explanations of what is considered “explicitly religious” activity to how organizations can preserve their religious identities while using federal funds to provide services. Among the guidelines are that faith [...]
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Both the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., are defending themselves against lawsuits filed by Catholic school teachers who were fired for pursuing in vitro fertilization treatments. In the Indiana case, Emily Herx is suing the diocese after being fired from her teaching [...]
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service 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. Archbishop J. [...]
By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has ordered a “doctrinal assessment” of the “activities and initiatives” of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the Maryland-based association whose members represent about 95 percent of the 67,000 women religious in the United States. Sister [...]
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service 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. The latest response submitted by Bishop Bernard Fellay, [...]
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service 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. Bavarian bishops, minister-president of Bavaria — Horst Seehofer, and a 150-person regional government delegation visited the pope April 16 in the Vatican’s [...]
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Just in time for Mother’s Day, U.S. Catholics parishes will be able to celebrate the new Rite for the Blessing of a Child in the Womb. The Vatican has given its approval to publication in English and Spanish of the new rite, which was approved by the U.S. [...]
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (CNS) — Celebrating an outdoor Mass on his first day in Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged the struggles of the country’s Catholics after half a century of communism and described human freedom as a necessity for both salvation and social justice. The pope spoke [...]
