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Lent is time of ‘joy’ for Eastern Catholics
By Laura Ieraci Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — “Joy” is not a word people usually associate with strict fasting and penance — unless they are Eastern-rite Catholics. In the Eastern church, the penitential period that prepares believers to celebrate Easter, is called “Great Lent,” and its prayers invite the …
Cardinal Egan, retired archbishop of New York, dies at age 82
By Catholic News Service NEW YORK — Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who retired as archbishop of New York in 2009, died March 5. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. He was 82. After collapsing at his residence that afternoon, he was taken to NYU Langone Medical Center, where doctors …
Pope: Putting trust in world, not God, blinds people to needs of others
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — When people trust in the world more than in God, their heart becomes numb and their eyes blind to those in need, Pope Francis said. “Worldliness transforms souls, it makes (people) lose touch with reality: They live in a fake world …
Hundreds honor memory of Father Hesburgh, celebrate a life well lived
By Chaz Muth Catholic News Service NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Ryan Leahy of Chicago walked up to an employee on the snow-covered campus of the University of Notre Dame March 3 and asked her to take a photo of him and his family members in front of the school’s iconic …
Throwback Thursday: Bishop on a bulldozer
Staff Report In the late 1950s, just as today, it wasn’t common to see a bishop in full clerical garb riding atop a bulldozer, but it happened once. Pictured in today’s Throwback Thursday is Archbishop Karl J. Alter. On Jan. 4, 1959 he mounted a bulldozer for a photo op …
Pope plans to canonize St. Therese’s parents during family synod
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is expected to canonize Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, during the world Synod of Bishops on the family in October. Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, leading …
UD libraries honor vowed religious in special exhibit
Press release With 2015 decreed as the Year of Consecrated Life by Pope Francis, University of Dayton Libraries is honoring the priests, sisters and brothers — the vowed religious — who devote their lives to serving God and humanity. “Charism, Character and Calling,” on display through March 31 …
Ignoring, abandoning the elderly is a sin, pope says
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Seeing the elderly only as a burden “is ugly. It’s a sin,” Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience. “We must reawaken our collective sense of gratitude, appreciation and hospitality, helping the elderly know they are a living part of …
Cardinal George hospitalized for tests to evaluate his condition
By Catholic News Service CHICAGO (CNS) — Cardinal Francis E. George, retired archbishop of Chicago, was admitted to Loyola University Medical Center March 1 to undergo several days of tests. A March 3 news release from the Chicago Archdiocese said the tests were being conducted to evaluate his condition since …
Catholic Families sought for century farm honor
Staff Report Catholic Rural Life of St. Marys and Sidney deaneries is encouraging Catholic farming families in those deaneries to apply for enrollment in the Catholic Century Farms Registry.
