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September 1, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — F. De-Karlos Blackmon, 34, of Huntsville, Ala., has been elected the youngest supreme knight and CEO in the history of the century-old Knights of Peter Claver.
Running on a platform of unity and progressive change, Blackmon was elected to the post during the national convention of the nation's only African-American Catholic fraternal organization and the world's largest black Catholic lay organization.
The conventio...
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September 1, 2010
SAN DIEGO — A lineup of high-profile presenters, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, headlined the first Mother of Life Conference.
About 1,800 people attended the conference held Aug. 14 at San Diego State University's Viejas Arena and sponsored by the San Diego chapter of the Knights of Columbus.
In a speech presented with his wife, Callista, Gingrich criticized the secularization of American society, which he said is...
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September 1, 2010
Protect Earth's resources, says pope
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September 1, 2010
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Boosting morale in a diocese deeply wounded because of the abuse of children by some clergy in past decades, Catholics in the Davenport Diocese pledged $22 million in a capital campaign that succeeded despite the worst economic conditions in decades.
The campaign was the first in more than 20 years for the diocese and came at a time of rebuilding following bankruptcy.
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 Sister Leticia, regional superior of the Missionaries of Charity in the eastern United States and Canada, lighted a candle during a Eucharistic procession through the streets around St. Rita of Cascia Church in the South Bronx section of New York Aug. 26. The procession, which followed a special Mass marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, passed in front of the first convent established in the United States by Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
August 31, 2010
WASHINGTON — Thirteen years after her death, the impact of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's work and prayer is still felt around the world.
Mother Teresa would have turned 100 Aug. 26. The order she started 60 years ago — the Missionaries of Charity — continues its outreach to the "poorest of the poor." Her spiritual life also continues to gain attention as her sainthood cause progresses.
Many say Mother Teresa's legacy is the combin...
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 Women dried clothes on a road partially submerged by flood waters near Sukkur, Pakistan, Aug. 30. Signs of recovery have begun to emerge in Pakistan, but aid workers cautioned that many have yet to receive help and new threats, such as outbreak of diseases, are beginning to appear.
August 31, 2010
MADRID, Spain — The press office for the Salesians reported this week that the congregation is helping more than 150,000 people in Pakistan affected by the severe flooding that has already taken the lives of 1,500. An additional 20 million Pakistanis are suffering from shortages of drinking water and food.
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August 29, 2010
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities is urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to support proposed legislation that would permanently forbid federal funding of abortion.
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 Matt Harris of Yorba Linda, Calif., argued with Matt Sky, right, and Julia Lundy, supporters of the proposed Muslim community center and mosque, in New York Aug. 19. Controversy has arisen over the proposed construction of the 13-story, $100 million Islamic center, which is to include a mosque, because it would be built near where the twin towers of the World Trade Center stood.
August 27, 2010
WASHINGTON — The controversy over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks away from ground zero in New York is but the latest manifestation of a historic cycle of distrust of immigrants — and their faith.
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August 26, 2010
The following international aid agencies are working with partner agencies and local religious leaders in Pakistan and are accepting donations for victims of the country's most serious floods in decades.
Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' international relief and development agency, is accepting donations by phone at (800) 736-3467; online at crs.org; or by mail to CRS, P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore, MD 21203-7090....
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August 25, 2010
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Aug. 23 that the Obama administration's guidelines for funding embryonic stem-cell research violate federal law and stopped such funding while a lawsuit against it continues.
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 A victim of flooding in Pakistan ate his meal in a makeshift refugee camp in Sukkur, Pakistan on Aug. 20. A priest in Pakistan said Christians are being discriminated against in government-run rescue and aid programs.
August 25, 2010
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI appealed again for solidarity and concrete assistance for the millions of people affected by flooding in Pakistan.
At the end of his weekly general audience Aug. 18 in Castel Gandolfo, the pope remembered "the dear population of Pakistan, recently stricken by serious flooding, which has caused numerous victims and has left many families without a home."
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August 25, 2010
Washington D.C. — Responding to an American Civil Liberties Union request for a government investigation into Catholic hospitals that refuse to provide abortions, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has offered pro bono legal help to any hospital or individual threatened for refusing to perform an abortion.
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August 25, 2010
WASHINGTON — Catholics in the United States will begin using the long-awaited English translation of the Roman Missal on the first Sunday of Advent in 2011, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago said Aug. 20.
The cardinal's announcement as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops marks the formal beginning of a more than 15-month period of education and training leading to the first use of the "third typical edition" of the...
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August 24, 2010
WASHINGTON —- A federal judge ruled Aug. 23 that the Obama administration's guidelines for funding embryonic stem-cell research violate federal law and stopped such funding while a lawsuit against it continues.
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August 20, 2010
WASHINGTON — Catholics in the United States will begin using the long-awaited English translation of the Roman Missal on the first Sunday of Advent in 2011, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago said Aug. 20.
The cardinal's announcement as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops marks the formal beginning of a more than 15-month period of education and training leading to the first use of the "third typical ed...
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 A family waded floodwaters in Muzaffargarh district in the Pakistani province of Punjab Aug. 16. The United Nations says up to 20 million of Pakistan’s 170 million people have been affected by Pakistan’s worst flooding in 80 years.
August 18, 2010
WASHINGTON — Pakistanis faced new dangers posed by disease as emergency response teams and international aid agencies struggled to rush supplies to millions of people forced to flee the country's worst flooding in 80 years.
Jack Byrne, Catholic Relief Services' country representative to Pakistan, said the aid effort has been hampered because bridges and roads have been washed away by monsoon rains and the ensuing floods since late July....
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August 18, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration's decision to approve a drug labeled as an emergency contraceptive is a "dangerous step toward erasing any meaningful distinction between contraception and abortion," said the U.S. bishops' pro-life spokeswoman.
Deirdre A. McQuade, assistant director for policy and communications in the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, made the comment in reaction to an Aug. 13 announcement...
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August 18, 2010
HOUSTON — The U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities recognized three individuals who have continuously answered the call to respect life. The honors were given Aug. 9 during the secretariat's annual national conference for respect life ministers in Houston.
The USCCB honored Msgr. Philip Reilly, founder of the Helpers of God's Precious Infants; Patricia Bainbridge, a longtime pro-life advocate who chairs Human Life Internati...
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