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Thursday, August 26, 2010
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — Thirteen years after her death, the impact of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's work and prayer is still felt around the world.
Mother Teresa would have turned 100 Aug. 26. The order she started 60 years ago — the Missionaries of Charity — continues its outreach to the "poorest of the poor." Her spiritual life also continues to gain attention as her sainthood cause progresses.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
VATICAN CITY — Christians and other minorities affected by severe flooding in Pakistan are being discriminated against in government-run rescue and aid programs, said the director of pontifical missionary societies in Pakistan.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Permitting girls to serve at the altar marked the end of a form of inequality in the church and allowed girls to experience the formative power of directly assisting with the mystery of the Eucharist — the core of the Christian faith, said the Vatican newspaper.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Children today are maturing so quickly and are exposed to so many different influences that it might be time to consider allowing them to prepare for and receive their first Communion even before their 7th birthdays, said the head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — In late July, a young woman was removing books from shelves in the Vatican Library and vacuuming the dust off of them, one by one.
Scholars have not had access to the library's 1.6 million books, hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, or its coin and medal collections since 2007, when the absolute-silence rule in the library's reading rooms was replaced with the ruckus of jackhammers, drills and cement mixers.
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