January 18 CATHOLIC WORLD NEWS
Vatican officials to meet with Italian bankers on card-transaction freezeCWN - 6 hours ago
Vatican officials will meet next week with Italian bank-security experts, with a goal of ending a freeze on bank-card transactions inside Vatican City. The Vatican, which has worked for months to...
Vatican preparing guide for priests on how to celebrate MassCWN - 5 hours ago
The Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship is preparing guidelines for priests on how to celebrate Mass properly, the Zenit news agency reports. In a January 15 address, Cardinal Antonio...
US bishops announce 9 days of prayer, penance around Roe anniversaryCWN - 16 hours ago
The United States Conference of Conference of Catholic Bishops has announced “Nine Days of Prayer, Penance and Pilgrimage” around January 22, the 40th anniversary Roe v. Wade-- the Supreme Court...
Ecumenical work requires humility, faithfulness, Pope tells Finnish Lutheran pilgrimsCWN - 6 hours ago
Pope Benedict XVI met on January 17 with a delegation from the Lutheran Church of Finland, which was visiting Rome on an annual pilgrimage for the feast of their patron, St. Henry of...
Pope's former valet, convicted in 'Vatileaks' scandal, offered post at Roman hospitalCWN - 7 hours ago
Paolo Gabriele, who was convicted in the “Vatileaks” scandal but pardoned by Pope Benedict XVI, has been offered a position at the Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome. The Vatican tribunal that found...
Polish court rules that crucifix in parliament is permittedCWN - 16 hours ago
A Warsaw court has ruled the crucifix that has been displayed in parliament since 1997 may remain there.“The presence of a religious symbol in a public place, such as parliament, does not...
Mali: bishops welcome French military intervention; feared Islamic rebelsCWN - 5 hours ago
Catholic Church leaders in Mali have welcomed the military intervention by French forces there, saying that the advance of Islamic rebels had threatened the Christian community. Father Edmond...
Federal court vacates decision that declared grant to USCCB unconstitutionalCWN - 16 hours ago
A US appeals court has vacated a decision by a lower court judge that had declared federal grants to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for human-trafficking victims to be...
President Obama pays tribute to religious freedomCWN - 16 hours ago
Amid dozens of lawsuits asserting that the Obama administration’s HHS mandate is an unconstitutional attack on religious freedom, President Barack Obama paid tribute to religious liberty in a...
Connecticut priest charged with meth salesCWN - 7 hours ago
A suspended priest of the Bridgeport, Connecticut diocese has been charged with conspiracy to sell methamphetamine. Police charge that Msgr. Kevin Wallin was engaged in a criminal conspiracy to...
Flu leads some US dioceses to alter sign of peace, mandate Communion under one kindCWN - 16 hours ago
The spread of the flu throughout the United States has led some dioceses to suspend the shaking of hands during the sign of peace and to suspend the use of a common chalice for Holy...
www.catholicculture.org/news