Catholic Resources

Hundreds prepare to enter church at Easter Vigil
Feb 27 2012
More than 500 candidates and catechumens filled three churches Feb. 26 for the annual Rite of Election.

Catholic High introduces tuition guarantee program
Jan 18 2012
Officials from The Catholic High School of Baltimore, an all-girls school in East Baltimore, announced Jan. 18 an implementation of a tuition guarantee program that will maintain rates for families.

Making the old new: Vatican encourages a recovery of ‘apologetics’
Jan 15 2012
VATICAN CITY – In the Catholic Church, it’s true that everything old can be new again, and the Vatican wants one of those things to be the art of “apologetics” – dusted off and updated to respond to new challenges, including those posed by militant atheists.

National Vocations Awareness Week takes place Jan. 9-14
Jan 04 2012
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Catholic Church will celebrate National Vocation

For pope, 2011 was year of evangelization, travel and technology
Jan 01 2012
VATICAN CITY – An interfaith meeting in Assisi, a new book on Jesus of Nazareth and a website-launching tap on an iPad were among the highlights of 2011 for Pope Benedict XVI.

Natural disasters in 2011 prompt outpouring of charity amid devastation
Dec 31 2011
WASHINGTON – Natural disasters around the world and all across the United States this year prompted prayers, charitable giving and outreach amid unthinkable destruction.

New CRS president gives back to faith that propelled her
Dec 21 2011
FOURTH IN A SERIES PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Carolyn Woo learned English from Maryknoll missioner sisters. In tears her first day at Purdue University because she couldn’t decipher a campus map, she found solace at its Newman Center. Woo met and married her husband at Purdue, and its church bell rang when she defended her doctoral dissertation there.

Mercy High launches global education center, hears from international leader
Dec 14 2011
Thinking globally isn’t just a catchphrase at Mercy High School. It’s a way of life. That has never been truer, as the school has started a Center for Global Education.

Philadelphia leader: ‘Painful’ year may bring school, parish closings
Dec 13 2011
PHILADELPHIA – Three months after his installation, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia warned Catholics that the archdiocese faces “very serious financial and organizational issues that cannot be delayed.”

‘You are not alone,’ Hispanic bishops tell undocumented immigrants
Dec 13 2011
WASHINGTON – An emotional pastoral letter to immigrants from the U.S. Hispanic and Latino Catholic bishops offers love, encouragement, welcome, sympathy and assurance that “you are not alone or forgotten.”

Online community filling a gap for Newman centers, says priest
Dec 11 2011
MELBOURNE, Fla. – Salvatorian Father Douglas Bailey has been the chaplain of Catholic campus ministry at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne for the past 28 years and was one of the first to join the Newman Connection.

Newman website fosters faith, fellowship among students, campus ministries
Dec 07 2011
MELBOURNE, Fla. – They are the future of the church and world and it just makes sense that as young adults pursue advanced education for their careers, they should be able to deepen their faith with prayer, fellowship and knowledge about their faith at the same time.

Changes in parishes coming for Detroit Archdiocese beginning 2012
Dec 05 2011
DETROIT – Nine metro Detroit parishes will close over the next five years if Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron accepts the recommendations a mostly lay advisory board approved Nov. 30.

Pope urges international agreement on climate change
Nov 30 2011
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI urged international leaders to reach a credible agreement on climate change, keeping in mind the needs of the poor and of future generations.

Pope’s critique of global economic system resurfaces in Africa
Nov 25 2011
VATICAN CITY – A few minutes after landing in Africa, Pope Benedict XVI delivered a stern warning against the “unconditional surrender to the law of the market or that of finance” in Africa and throughout the global economic system.