News
Pope: Persecution is a ‘shared experience’ that unites all Christians
The pope sent a message addressed to Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, who was attending the Global Christian Forum that was meeting in Tirana, Albania, Nov. 2-5.
Christians have no right to exclude others, pope says at morning Mass
In his homily Nov. 5 during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the pope said that like the Pharisees and scribes depicted in the Gospels, people are often tempted to be selective and form their own "little group," an attitude "that is not Christian."
Ohio Catholic first woman to lead a national organization for veterans
One of only a dozen or so female veterans in the 7,520-member organization, Crawford ran unopposed when she was elected at the group's Las Vegas convention last August.
Pray and work: Benedictine uses motto to help people in northern Kenya
This has become his mantra for his time with Kenya's ethnic Daasanach community, one of the smallest tribes in Kenya. More than 10 years into his time with them, he has seen many small changes create good things.
Four local Catholic organizations receive grants
The Community Center at Visitation, St. Gabriel School, St. Martin de Porres School and the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center (PAHRC) got sizable grants from the Catholic Foundation of Greater Philadelphia.
Father Fitzgibbons, an Augustinian turned archdiocesan priest, dies at 73
Father John (Jack) Fitzgibbons was born in Connecticut but raised in St. Denis Parish, Havertown, before entering the Augustinian Order. After switching to Philadelphia, he served at several archdiocesan parishes.
If you love God, care for what he has made, says cardinal
Cardinal Peter Turkson, who drafted the papal document on the environment, said in Ohio that two things God created "are crying to us -- the earth and the way we have abused it, and humanity, part of which is still needy and suffering."
Money laundering probe underway at Vatican
The Vatican office charged with financial oversight called for a civil investigation in August that includes possible insider trading and market manipulation of church funds, a spokesman confirmed.
‘VatiLeaks’ 2015: Books claim strong resistance to pope’s finance reform
Financial wrongdoing at the Vatican, leaked documents and arrests by the Vatican police may make it seem like 2012 all over again, but the serious situation is not the breach of papal privacy that the earlier scandal was.
Diocesan money managers hear of parish turnarounds
More than 325 fiscal professionals in dioceses across North America participated in a conference where they learned the necessity of financial transparency, and how some parishes have turned their red ink into black.