Day

January 19, 2012

Raleigh Diocese plans new 2,000-seat cathedral on 39-acre campus

RALEIGH, N.C. – A new 2,000-seat cathedral is the centerpiece of a 39-acre campus being planned by officials of the Diocese of Raleigh.
Read More

Pope Benedict offers blessings on 9/11 anniversary

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI offered his blessings to U.S. Catholics as they prepared to observe the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Read More

Catholics must link beliefs with political action, speakers say

NEW YORK – Politics is a good thing, participation in public life is a moral obligation and Catholics need to do a better job of linking their beliefs to their actions, according to speakers at a Sept. 6 conference on “Faithful Citizenship: Voters, Bishops and Presidential Elections.”
Read More

10 years after 9/11, U.S. comfort level with Muslims slow to change

WASHINGTON – A decade after the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, led to a backlash against Muslims, many Americans are still uncomfortable with followers of Islam and think its teachings are at odds with American values.
Read More

Reject hatred, resist terrorism, says U.S. bishops’ head in 9/11 message

WASHINGTON ¬ As the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, neared, the president of the U.S. bishops pledged “today and always to reject hatred and resist terrorism” in a statement reflecting on 9/11.
Read More

Philadelphia will get through ‘difficult moment,’ Archbishop Chaput says

PHILADELPHIA ¬ Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, installed Sept. 8 as the new archbishop of Philadelphia, offered encouragement that members of his new archdiocese will get through the “difficult moment” the local church has endured.
Read More

Parish serves as shelter for victims displaced by Texas wildfires

WASHINGTON – Ascension Parish in Bastrop, Texas, has been serving as a shelter and a nerve center for relief efforts related to the ongoing Texas wildfires that have struck the state.
Read More

Philadelphia Catholic high school teachers on strike

PHILADELPHIA – As incoming freshmen began orientation for the new school year and the archdiocese prepared to welcome a new archbishop, Philadelphia Catholic high school teachers went on strike Sept. 6.
Read More

Military bishop says prayers needed to become ‘instruments of peace’

The sights, smells and sense of quiet from the days he spent searching the burning Pentagon for bodies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack remain vivid in Bishop F. Richard Spencer’s mind.
Read More

9/11 in Rome: Baltimore pastor was seminarian at Pontifical North American College

On the second day of the new semester at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Father Michael DeAscanis and fellow seminarians were taking a mid-afternoon walk in the courtyard.
Read More

Inner Harbor site of 9/11 Memorial of Maryland

In late August 2010, Barbara Bozzuto and other Marylanders visited a hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, N.Y.
Read More

Baltimore priest brought prayer to Ground Zero after attack

Father Leo Patalinghug was all set to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, beginning Sept. 13, 2001, when the terrorist attacks of two days earlier abruptly ended his plans. International flights were canceled as the world fixed its attention on New York and Washington.
Read More
1 333 334 335 336 337 803
En español »