Archive for August 4, 2009
Anti-Christian vandals target World Congress of Families meeting
The Amsterdam offices of an organizer for the upcoming World Congress of Families were defaced with paint and vandalized with... Read more
Catholic Charities receives large federal contract for disaster relief
Catholic Charities USA has received a five-year, 100 million dollar federal contract to aid in disaster relief throughout the United... Read more
Facebook and MySpace have ‘dehumanizing’ effects, Archbishop Nichols warns
Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols has warned about the “dehumanizing” effects of modern communication, saying e-mails, text messages and social... Read more
Cardinal Bagnasco encourages conscientious objection to RU-486
The president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, encouraged doctors who defend life and oppose abortion to exercise... Read more
Vatican denies reports of new guidelines on illegitimate children of priests
Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See’s Press Office, issued a statement today strongly denying reports in the Italian... Read more
Phoenix bishop encourages Knights to overcome their fears
Nearly 2,500 Knights and their families gathered in Phoenix’s JW Marriot Desert Ridge Resort to celebrate their annual convention’s opening... Read more
Miraculous image experts to speak at Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Knights of Columbus is preparing to host a Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe which not only will feature... Read more
Knights to host Guadalupe Festival after Marian Congress
A capacity crowd is expected to attend a celebration commemorating the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan... Read more
Sanctification is center of Year of Priests, says Cardinal Hummes in Ars
The prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Claudio Hummes celebrated Mass in Ars, France today to mark the... Read more
Benedict XVI, Obama send greetings to K of C
The greetings of several heads of state were read at this afternoon’s opening meeting at the Knights of Columbus convention... Read more
Bridgeport Diocese rejects reports of nunnery threat as 'untrue'
Reports that an accountant and a priest at a Catholic parish in Connecticut were mistreated and threatened by the Diocese... Read more
Caritas in Veritate is light 'amidst dark clouds,' says French Minister of Labor
France’s Minister of Labor, Xavier Darcos, said the new social encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI, “Caritas in Veritate,” has “come... Read more
