Tag: EWTN
New US stamp honors Mother Teresa, admirer and critic of American society
Washington D.C., Sep 5, 2010 / 02:15 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Following the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa on August 26, the United States Postal Service is honoring her with a new 44 cent stamp. It was issued in a special ceremony today at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate… Read More ›
Vatican council calls planned Koran burning ceremony ‘outrageous’
Vatican City, Sep 8, 2010 / 10:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Although the charismatic Christian church planning a Koran burning on Sept. 11 only has around 50 members, the spectre of the impact on Muslim relations led the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue to issue a statement today expressing its “great concern” over the plan… Read More ›
US Catholic Leaders condemn planned Koran burning
CNA STAFF, Sep 8, 2010 / 05:47 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The retired Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick, and the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights’ president Bill Donohue, have added their voices in opposition to a Florida pastor’s plan to burn the Koran publicly on September 11, 2010. Both men agree that… Read More ›
Living the Liturgy: Clear Creek Monastery
By Michelle Laque Johnson U.S. Catholics no longer have to travel to Europe to discover what life is like behind the turreted walls of the medieval French abbey, Notre Dame de Fontgombault, and other Benedictine monasteries. In 1999, an almost unbelievable chain of events brought a group of Benedictines from France to Oklahoma! There, they… Read More ›
Archbishop Chaput calls for resistance to intolerance of Christianity
Spisske Podhradie, Slovakia, Aug 25, 2010 / 05:48 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Addressing the first session of the 15th symposium for the Canon Law Association of Slovakia on Tuesday, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver called for Catholics in America and Europe to oppose the rise of a “state-encouraged atheism” which reduces religion to “an individual lifestyle… Read More ›