Archive for July 2, 2011

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By Jennifer Brinker

Chalice with special meaning headed to Alaska with priest

As Father Joe Classen makes the 5,000-plus mile journey to Alaska to start a new assignment, he'll be taking along... Read more

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By Kevin J. Jones

Pope's first tweet brings Vatican 50,000 Twitter followers

Pope Benedict XVI’s first tweet has catapulted the Vatican’s presence on Twitter to new heights.  Read more

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput/ The U.S. Supreme Court building?w=200&h=150

By Katherine Veik

Denver archbishop says Supreme Court is wrong on video game violence

Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput says a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on video game violence is “wrong,” and will... Read more

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Bishops of North and Central America urge countries to protect migrants

A group of North and Central American bishops say their governments must take responsibility for the legal protection of migrants.  Read more

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Pope Benedict XVI welcomes 7,000 pilgrims from southern Italy

Pope Benedict gave his welcome and blessing to over 7,000 Catholics fromsouthern Italy on July 2. The pilgrims from the... Read more

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Vatican City State and Holy See back in the financial black

The Vatican City State ran up a surplus of $30 million over the pastyear, after three years of deficit. The... Read more

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U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he is “very blessed” that the doctors caught the cancer early enough, and that the treatments worked.

God ‘answered a lot of prayers’: Scalise discusses faith, cancer recovery 

A young woman is baptized at the 2024 Easter Vigil at St. Mary’s Catholic Center at Texas A&M.

Eucharist, unity, clarity: What attracts converts to the Catholic Church?

Katie Chihoski, a student at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, eats with her baby, Lucia, on her lap in the company of fellow students. Chihoski is among the first students to benefit from a new initiative at the Catholic college called the Saint Teresa of Calcutta Community for Mothers, which provides free babysitting and other material support for young mothers on campus.

University of Mary student to graduate with toddler, supported by campus program for moms

Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, and Rev. Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Most Holy Trinity Monastery in Arlington, Texas.

Defiant Texas nuns seek restraining order against bishop, Carmelite association

President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry campus on April 23, 2024, in Tampa, Florida.

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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey walks across the campus of St. John's Prep in Danvers, Massachusetts, on April 9, 2024.

Pro-lifers dismayed at Massachusetts pro-abortion governor’s appearances at Catholic school events

The Vatican ambassador to Colombo, Archbishop Brian Udaigwe (third from left) and Sri Lanka's Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith (fourth from left) take part in a remembrance service during the fifth anniversary of the Easter Sunday suicide attacks at St. Anthony Church in Colombo on April 21, 2024.

More than 50,000 sign petition to recognize 171 killed in Sri Lanka attack as martyrs

Archbishop Luis Argüello and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Bishops: Catholic Church in Spain unjustly singled out in plan to address sexual abuse

Over a year after the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey in February 2023, restoration of Aleppo's Church of St. George has been completed.

A year after earthquake, Aleppo’s St. George Church rises again

The Augustine Institute's new facilities in Florissant, Missouri.

‘An unprecedented opportunity’: Augustine Institute announces move to St. Louis 

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