Vatican Designates National Shrine in Honor of St. Paul
Posted by Tim Drake
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:51 AM
As the Year of St. Paul draws to a close, the Vatican has designated the Cathedral of St. Paul, in St. Paul, Minn., as the nation’s first national shrine in honor of the apostle Paul.
The distinction was granted by the Office of the Holy See and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, following a request by St. Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt. It is Minnesota’s first national... READ MORE
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DiNoia Gets Liturgical Post
Posted by Edward Pentin
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:21 AM
Archbishop DiNoia (CNS)
Pope Benedict XVI today appointed Dominican Father Joseph Augustine DiNoia to be Secretary to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Archbishop-elect DiNoia, who turns 66 next month, was born in New York of Italian parents and grew up in the Bronx. He was ordained a priest in the Dominican Order in 1970. With his appointment, he is elevated to titular... READ MORE
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Vatican Clarifies Obama Stance
Posted by Edward Pentin
Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:46 AM
“It is true we don’t share many views with the present administration on bioethical issues, but at the same time the traditional policy of the Holy See is to try to always have open channels, to follow a policy of dialogue through which you can tell people you don’t agree on certain issues, but at the same time keep on with a dialogue.”
Those are the words of Msgr. Pietro Parolin, the... READ MORE
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Vatican Off Obama’s Itinerary
Posted by Edward Pentin
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:04 AM
When will Obama come here? (CNS/Reuters)
The White House disclosed over the weekend that President Barack Obama is to make a weeklong foreign tour in July that will include Russia, Italy and Ghana. However, noticeably missing from the list is the Vatican.
It’s been widely thought that Obama would visit Pope Benedict XVI when the president attends the G8 summit in the Italian town of L’Aquila July 8-10. But there was no mention of the... READ MORE
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Second Women’s Visitation
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:04 PM
Cardinal William Levada (CNS)
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has ordered a visitation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR).
Late last year, a broader visitation of U.S. women’s religious institutes was ordered by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
The new visitation will focus on doctrinal issues.
An article published... READ MORE
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Pentin’s ‘Coup of the Century’
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, March 13, 2009 10:11 AM
Edward Pentin (The American)
Excuse us for some after-the-fact crowing, but we think our Rome correspondent Edward Pentin deserves it.
Edward is the Vatican reporter who broke the news of Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s appointment as the new Archbishop of New York.
Here’s what Whispers in the Loggia’s Rocco Palmo — himself no slouch as a Vaticanista — had to say today about Edward’s major scoop in a post about some... READ MORE
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The Vatican Gets Social
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, March 09, 2009 5:35 PM
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, sees both the promise and the problems of social networking.
The council is holding a Rome seminar March 9-13 about new communications technology for bishops who are responsible for social communication commissions. Archbishop Celli spoke today with Register correspondent Edward Pentin about the issues... READ MORE
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