MADRID – On June 11, Spanish soccer fans will gather at Blessed Manuel Domingo Sol Catholic Church in Madrid to watch host nation South Africa play Mexico in the first game of the FIFA World Cup.Read More
CATONSVILLE – At a time when convents are shuttering across the country, leaders of Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville announced plans June 4 for a new convent that will house the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia who work in the all-girls school.Read More
VATICAN CITY – As part of the closing events for the Year for Priests, the Legionaries of Christ hosted top Vatican officials for a conference on the priest as the “image of the Good Shepherd.”Read More
WASHINGTON – Road construction and other infrastructure improvements are beginning outside of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince in a wide-ranging effort to rebuild parts of the country devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake.Read More
Three days before his church’s new altar, ambo and baptismal font were to be dedicated June 5, Monsignor Richard J. Bozzelli marveled at the new additions. Inside the spectacular Florentine-style church in Baltimore City, they appeared humble, rather than gaudy.Read More
Nearly two months after succeeding the late Archbishop William D. Borders as the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s oldest priest, Father E. Gerard Huesman died June 7. The former pastor and longtime hospital chaplain was 95.Read More
ROME – As thousands of priests arrived in Rome for events marking the end of the Year for Priests, two other groups of Catholics arrived with some very specific requests.Read More
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Father Brian Kolodiejchuk of the Missionaries of Charity, postulator for the sainthood cause of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, told a gathering at the Knights of Columbus Museum in New Haven June 1 that her cause is “still waiting for one more miracle” for her to be declared a saint.Read More
WARSAW, Poland – A martyred Polish priest was praised for standing against the oppressive forces of communism when he defended human rights in his sermons during a beatification Mass in the Polish capital.Read More
NICOSIA, Cyprus – The Catholic minority in Cyprus and the Christian minority in the Middle East are called to be witnesses of God’s love, of hope in the face of suffering and of a tenacious commitment to dialogue for peace, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More