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April 27, 2012
By Catholic News Service
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A cross will be restored to a war memorial in a remote part of a national park in the California desert, according to a settlement agreement approved April 16 and announced April 24.
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April 27, 2012
By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – When Father Robert Rien, flanked by the staff of St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish, showed up at the Bank of America branch in Antioch, Calif., in 2009 to close out the church’s account — all of $135,000 — the only thing on his mind was the plight of two dozen families in his flock struggling with their mortgages against the $2.3-trillion behemoth.
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April 26, 2012
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Here is a timeline of major events related to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Vatican:
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April 26, 2012
By Catholic News Service
HARTFORD, Conn. (CNS) – In what he called “a moment of sober reflection, not celebration,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed into law a bill outlawing the use of capital punishment in the state.
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April 26, 2012
By Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Arizona’s attempt to manage its population of undocumented immigrants by stepping into enforcement of federal laws led the Supreme Court April 25 to try to parse where the lines lie between state and federal authority.
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April 26, 2012
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Lay Catholics in China have been scandalized by priests who are ordained bishops without papal approval and by the participation of Vatican-recognized bishops in those ordinations, said the Vatican Commission for the Catholic Church in China.
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April 26, 2012
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI told the German bishops that, as pope, he has celebrated Mass in different languages and “sometimes it is hard to find common ground” in the various translations.
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April 26, 2012
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The global financial crisis and the worldwide recession it triggered have demonstrated that allowing financial markets to self-regulate does not serve national interests and the good of the international community, a Vatican official said.
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April 26, 2012
By David Agren, Catholic News Service
MEXICO CITY (CNS) – A recent Pew Hispanic Center Report found a leveling in the number of Mexicans arriving in the United States and those heading back to Mexico, but omitted another group: Central Americans, who are heading north in ever larger numbers, despite dangers along the route.
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By Steve Trosley
DAYTON – More than 9,000 students from more than 30 Catholic schools in the 12 northernmost counties of the archdiocese gathered in Dayton Wednesday morning for the first annual Unity Mass. Continue reading →
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