Tweets at St. Pete’s: What happens when bloggers and the Vatican meet

VATICAN CITY – Some things just can’t be done online. Like shake the hand of a blogging Benedictine nun (aka @Digitalnun on Twitter) and get her advice on how to create a profitable app with no start-up money.
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Canadian bishop pledges healing in diocese rocked by child porn charges

ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia – Antigonish Bishop Brian Dunn recommitted himself to working to bring healing, reconciliation and reform to the diocese after his predecessor pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography for the purpose of importation.
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‘There Be Dragons’ director takes full responsibility for film

WASHINGTON – Roland Joffe, director of “There Be Dragons,” the new movie that dramatizes the early life of St. Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei, says he takes full responsibility for the finished product.
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House passes bill making Hyde Amendment permanent

WASHINGTON - The House has approved a bill that would make the Hyde Amendment permanent, limit tax deductions for the cost of an abortion and block other potential use of federal funds for any clinic or doctor who offers abortions.
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Pro-life official says he has sometimes faced ‘ultimate evil’

NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Looking back at 30 years of pro-life work for the Catholic Church, Richard M. Doerflinger said he sometimes felt he had come into “contact with something very close to ultimate evil.”
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Bin Laden killing poses questions for moral debate

WASHINGTON – As word got out that Osama bin Laden had been killed by a Navy SEAL strike team in Pakistan, television and the Internet quickly began to feature images of spontaneous celebrations outside the White House and at ground zero in New York.
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Jablonski: It runs in the family

It didn’t take Matt Jablonski long to realize that being a dominant runner just might be in his DNA.
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St. Dominic parishioners benefit from ‘Sign Chi Do’ exercises

Sitting on a chair facing a DVD player’s TV screen Angeles Phillips let the gentle sounds of a traditional Gaelic blessing wash over her as she raised her arms, moving them forward and back, up and down, her hands first facing away from her and then toward her in a manner rather like “signing” for...
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John Paul II opened the doors to Christ

He proclaimed Christ – “always and everywhere.” In this way, Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, manifested his holiness. And for the way he lived his life, he has been declared among the “blessed” of the church by his successor, Benedict XVI.
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Sister Kathleen Feeley, 82, keeps sharing her vision

When Sister Kathleen Feeley was summoned last year from Ghana by her order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, to serve as interim president of the Institute of Notre Dame, she faced prodigious change.
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Reflecting on 40 years of priesthood

Forty is a number of biblical significance – Jesus spent 40 days in the desert and for 40 years the people of Israel wandered in the desert.
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It Takes a Village

When I walk to work each day tears often come to my eyes. I see our children being led astray by a demonic mentality that would make even the strongest man or woman cringe. We see a culture where many of our young people can barely read or write and have adopted profanity as the...
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