Dioceasan News

JFK, Obama and the role of religion

By • Pittsburgh Catholic • 4/1/2008

PITTSBURGH, PA (Pittsburgh Catholic) - When Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama spoke in mid-March about race, the speech was hailed as a watershed moment in American politics. Laudatory comparisons were made to John F. Kennedy�s speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association ...

Mother Antonia�s life as a �Prison Angel�: Serving God behind bars for over 31 years

Catholic Universe Bulletin • 3/30/2008

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Catholic Universe Bulletin) - For Mother Antonia, a petite but powerful 81-year-old woman who has lived much of the last 31 years in a Mexican prison ministering to inmates, life is about respect and the dignity of each person. �Prison is one of the hardest places to be,� she told ...

Colo. Catholic school goes to organic beef after February�s massive USDA recall

By • The Colorado Catholic Herald • 3/30/2008

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (The Colorado Catholic Herald) - Corpus Christi School has changed beef suppliers to a local organic outlet following a U.S. Department of Agriculture (UDSA) recall of beef in the middle of February at institutions around the nation. The recall, the largest in U.S. history ...

Scott Hahn�s teaching, conversion story draws huge crowd to speaker series

By • The Catholic Free Press • 3/28/2008

FITCHBURG, MA (The Catholic Free Press) - �I was at the edge of my pew: �My Lord, that�s you, isn�t it?�� Scott Hahn, Presbyterian minister turned Catholic author and speaker was describing the first time he witnessed the consecration at Mass. �I�m sitting there stunned,� he told a packed ...

Sister Dorothy Stang, slain in Brazil in 2005, still lives on in the hearts of the faithful

By • • 3/28/2008

PHOENIX, AZ (The Catholic Sun) - Luis Aguilar didn�t speak English when he went into second grade in the 1960s at Most Holy Trinity School. His teacher, Sr. Mary Joachim, of the Notre Dame de Namur religious order, spoke to him in Spanish, asking him to stay in at recess to help him succeed in ...

FAQs on the Phoenix restructuring plan

• 3/27/2008

PHOENIX, AZ (The Catholic Sun) - Here are some of the details of the plan in the Diocese of Phoenix to incorporate each of its parishes as separate entities. For the full story, see Catholic Online's related story, "Phoenix parishes to be separate corporations." 1. Why are parishes in the Diocese ...

Phoenix parishes to be separate corporations

By • • 3/27/2008

PHOENIX, Ariz. (The Catholic Sun) - The Phoenix Diocese is undertaking a comprehensive restructuring process so that its civil organization matches the one already in place canonically. Currently, the diocese is a corporate sole � a legal entity consisting of a single incorporated office occupied ...

Nuns lose appeal to keep beer-and-wine pizza parlor, video arcade away from schools

By • The Tidings • 3/26/2008

LOS ANGELES, CA (The Tidings) - Sister Vincent Marie Finnegan is showing a visitor around the sloping, landscaped, four-acre grounds of the Little Flower Missionary House off North Broadway. An institution in Lincoln Heights since 1943, the complex of light tan stucco structures and five ...

University of Virginia campaign seeks endowment for chair of Catholic Studies

The Catholic Virginian • 3/26/2008

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (The Catholic Virginian) - A campaign to fund an endowed Chair for Catholic Studies has been initiated at the University of Virginia. An endowed chair is usually designated for a particular field or area of scholarship with significant income from the endowment to assure a ...

COMING SOON - Stefania Pierucci is Lili and Greg Schwartz is the puppeteer in the Archbishop Riordan High School production of �Carnival,� in the school�s Lindland Theater April 11, 12, 18, 19 at 8 p.m. and April 20 at 2 p.m. Almost 60 other students complete the ensemble of cast, crew and orchestra. The school is located at 175 Phelan St. across from San Francisco City College. Tickets are available online at www.riordanhs.org. (Vincent Paratore)

S.F. schools revive old-fashioned musicals

By • Catholic San Francisco • 3/26/2008

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Catholic San Francisco) - If you are looking for an old-fashioned musical theater experience, look no further than your nearest Catholic high school. From Archbishop Riordan High School�s reprise of the 1961 Broadway musical �Carnival� to St. Ignatius College Preparatory�s ...