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Thousands of rare Vatican manuscripts to go online
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Thousands of rare manuscripts until now accessible only to scholars at the Vatican will go online over the next four years, thanks to help from a Japanese information technology company.
Boys’ choir from centuries-old monastery in Spain makes U.S. debut
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Since the 13th century, the Escolania de Montserrat has sung daily for pilgrims at Escolania de Montserrat in Catalonia, Spain.
For Peru’s Kukama people, water is more than a drink, missionary finds
DOS DE MAYO, Peru (CNS) -- It was a day Father Miguel Angel Cadenas did not expect to see. One after another, government officials stood before several hundred Kukama Indians packed into a sweltering wood-frame room in this tiny riverside village, describing the results of a study of pollution in their communities.
Couple took long road, through Jesus, to Philadelphia
Pedro and Carmen Biaggi renounced their former ways, embraced the Lord through the Neocatechumenal Way and are raising six children in New Jersey. They are all moving along with other families sent by Pope Francis to St. Michael Parish in North Philadelphia this June with the Missio ad Gentes.
Bahrain cathedral will be ‘symbol of Christianity’ in ‘heart of Islam’
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Bishop Camillo Ballin, apostolic vicar of Northern Arabia, knows full well what it is like to minister to Catholics in a Muslim region because he has been doing that for more than four decades.
English bishop says uncharitable use of social media a ‘grave matter’
MANCHESTER, England (CNS) -- An English bishop asked Catholics to use Lent as a time to repent of sins committed on social media.
Salvadoran bishop says he expects Romero beatification in three years
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- At a March 15 Mass in Washington marking the 34th anniversary of the killing of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador said there's strong hope and signals from the Vatican that beatification for the man many consider a modern-day saint will come in three years.
National shrine ‘fitting tribute’ to late pope, says USCCB president
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops' March 19 designation of a center in Washington as the St. John Paul II National Shrine reflects U.S. Catholics' love for the late pope, said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky.
Neocatechumenal Way preparing to send families to two Philadelphia parishes
Two “Missio ad Gentes” teams of families will come to live in city parishes this June. Archbishop Chaput requested the teams for Philadelphia, after establishing a seminary for the Neocatechumenal Way here last year. It is an initiative of the New Evangelization.
Vatican, Rome gear up for canonizations of John XXIII, John Paul II
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Just over five weeks before the canonizations of Blesseds John XXIII and John Paul II, Rome hotels are reporting they are almost fully booked and the Vatican has confirmed the Mass will take place in St. Peter's Square, despite knowing that hundreds of thousands of people will have to watch the ceremony on large video screens.