Ancient Mass comes to Anchorage
Catholic Anchor
11/18/2008, by Patricia Coll Freeman
Anchorage, AK (The Anchor) - Ethereal chant, incense and perhaps even an ostrich-feathered liturgical fan will soon waft through Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage. Beginning Dec. 6, the ancient Dominican rite Mass will be celebrated in Latin every first Saturday of the month at noon.
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Graham memory Web site inspires book
McClatchy Newspapers
11/4/2008, by Sue Nowicki
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Basyle and Aram Tchividjian wanted to hear the stories of the people touched by the ministry of their famous grandfather, Billy Graham. So they set up a Web site, thankyoubilly.com, and invited folks to contribute their memories. "I was often moved, sometimes to tears, ...
Youngest Synod Members Transformed by Experience
Zenit News Agency
10/29/2008, by Jesús Colina
VATICAN CITY (Zenit) - The two youngest participants at the synod of bishops say they were transformed by the assembly. But a cardinal says the young adults' participation in the synod also marked the bishops' reflections. Twenty-five-year-old Silvia Sanchini, national president of the Federation ...
A home for the Great Spirit: American Indian parish fights closure
McClatchy Newspapers
10/27/2008, by Georgia Pabst
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - Father Edward Cook sits in the circle at the front of the church where he and the drummers play a song of welcome. Inside the small, white stone church where Lithuanians once worshipped, more than 100 people come to pray at one of the few urban churches in the ...
Soup kitchen volunteers ladle out the love
McClatchy Newspapers
10/27/2008, by Debra McKinney
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - They shuffle up to the take-out windows in the drizzle, some friendly, some not. With clear eyes and steady hands; with overcast eyes and hands that are practically seismic. Most are broke or broken. For a few, that would be putting it kindly. No matter what their ...
Iconographer putting down his brush after 400 images
McClatchy Newspapers
10/15/2008, by Jennifer Garza
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Miloje Milinkovic has spent the past 12 years working by himself, but he is never alone. Day after day, for many of those years, he has stood on a shaky 15-foot-high scaffolding at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Jackson, Calif., painting images from the Gospels. He ...
Students given room and board in exchange for faith
McClatchy Newspapers
10/2/2008, by Jennifer Garza
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - It's dinner time in the small, two-bedroom apartment near Sacramento City College. One by one, five students gather around a well-used dining room table for a meal that begins with a prayer. "Thank you Lord," begins Andrea De La Torre, 19, in the short blessing before ...
Is Catholicism trendy?
McClatchy Newspapers
9/29/2008, by Patrick T. Reardon
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - For American publishers, Catholics suddenly seem trendy. Three books by high-profile names from pop fiction, Hollywood and politics have arrived or will soon arrive in bookstores: "Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession" (Knopf), by Anne Rice, the best-selling queen ...
Catholic men find larger church role
McClatchy Newspapers
9/19/2008, by Jim Niemi
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Richard Abbey has a new vocation. The senior program leader in the reliability lab at Hitachi Automotive Products is now also a deacon at St. Andrew Catholic Church, where each month he says the homily and assists with the Eucharist at two Masses, in Harrodsburg, Ky., ...
Kentucky military school saved by eBay
McClatchy Newspapers
9/16/2008, by Jim Warren
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - A listing on eBay might have saved the abandoned 115-year-old Millersburg Military Institute in Bourbon County, Ky. Joseph Land, chief of staff of the private United States Army Cadet Corps, said Friday that corps officials first became aware of MMI when they saw it ...
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