Travel

Zip line to add fun, convenience for Super Bowl visitors
Feb 02 2012
INDIANAPOLIS - A historic Indianapolis church is in the center of festivities surrounding the Feb. 5 Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Priest who survived cancer takes on challenge of Mount Kilimanjaro
Jan 24 2012
DES MOINES, Iowa – A pastor from the Des Moines Diocese has experienced a once-in-a-lifetime adventure with the hope that it will bring others to God.

Dominican nuns resist war in prayer, action to disarm nuclear arsenals
Jan 22 2012
BALTIMORE – They call themselves peacemakers, following in the footsteps of the nonviolent Jesus.

As Tet nears, migrants return to Vietnam, get chance to renew faith
Jan 21 2012
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – Catholic migrant workers based in Laos are returning home to be with their families in time for the Tet New Year holidays and, for many, the trip will offer a chance to renew their faith.

Avoiding damage for poor likely to be 2012 focus of Washington advocates
Jan 08 2012
WASHINGTON – With election-year politics pretty much guaranteed to clog up the process of passing legislation this year even more than partisan posturing did in 2011, Washington wish lists for policy and legislation are brief and heavy on defensive thinking.

Westminster parish marks 40 years of basketball, thanks to veteran volunteers
Jan 06 2012
WESTMINSTER – Sitting in the bleachers as the repeated booming echoes of bouncing basketballs filled St. John’s gymnasium, Larry Baker and Donald “Bo” Yingling seemed like proud fathers.

Co-workers with God for economic justice
Jan 05 2012
Shall crime bring crime forever Strength aiding still the strong? Is it your will, O Father That men shall toil For wrong? from the musical, “Godspell”

What Makes a Catholic Hospital Catholic
Jan 05 2012
Several times each year, patients suffering from rheumatic fever come to a Baltimore-area hospital for open heart surgery to repair their damaged hearts. They receive world-class medical care at no cost to them and they and their traveling companions are given complimentary hospitality until the patient is able to return home. St. Joseph Medical Center is the hospital where the surgery is performed and it is the Catholic institution that absorbs the cost of such a gift. This is one of countless examples of the uniqueness of St. Joseph’s and why its Franciscan, Catholic identity makes this hospital so special.

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.

Roman Missal voted top news story of 2011; Pope Benedict top newsmaker
Dec 27 2011
WASHINGTON – The introduction of the English translation of the Roman Missal topped the religious news stories of 2011, and Pope Benedict XVI was again the top newsmaker, according to the annual poll conducted by Catholic News Service.

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.

“Posada” draws attention to need for immigration reform
Dec 20 2011
CHICAGO – Catholic advocates for immigration reform used a Dec. 16 “posada,” a traditional Mexican re-enactment of Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter in Bethlehem, to demonstrate the need to change the immigration system.

Pope’s trip to Cuba holds layers of spiritual, political hopes
Dec 19 2011
WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Cuba in the spring will have multiple layers of meaning for the church and for Cuban society, said a U.S. archbishop who pays close attention to Cuba.

Filipino Catholic has gift of making sacred images appear on rose petals
Dec 14 2011
SANTA MARIA, Philippines – In the early afternoon on a recent Saturday, an endless line of believers gathered at the altar of the Shrine of the Mother of the Eucharist and Grace.

Cardinal Foley, ‘patriarch of American Catholic press,’ dies
Dec 13 2011
Cardinal John P. Foley, an internationally respected priest-journalist who led the Catholic Church’s social communications council for more than two decades, died Dec. 11 in his native Philadelphia. The 76-year-old cardinal had been battling leukemia.