Provoke Radio ends four-year run

Provoke Radio, a Jesuit-sponsored program focusing on the work of “ordinary people doing extraordinary things” in the realm of faith-based social justice and peace, ended a four-and-a-half-year run with its final new program April 26.
CNS originally blogged about the program last November.
“We’re simply out of funding,” the program’s writer and producer, Claire Hartman, told CNS. “We were [...]

Catholic men stand up for faith

Nearly 1,000 showed up last weekend in Peoria, Ill., for the sixth annual “Call to Catholic Men of Faith,” according to The Catholic Post diocesan newspaper. But what really set the paper’s coverage apart was its use of multimedia: a four-minute video presentation of photos taken at the event set to a song about the [...]

Catholic community blogs in Florida

Check out this new Catholic community blog established by the Florida Catholic. It’s an interesting venue for Florida Catholics to express their faith.

Vatican Museums join Italian quake-relief effort

VATICAN CITY — Accepting a proposal from the guards at the Vatican Museums, the office governing Vatican City State has decided to open the museums May 10 and donate all the money from ticket sales that day to survivors of the April 6 earthquake in Italy’s L’Aquila region.
“All the personnel of the Vatican Museums are [...]

100 Days Campaign to close at the White House

 
After 100 days, the 100 Days Campaign to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ends April 30.
Dozens of people seeking the guarantee of humans rights for the 239 detainees being held without charges at Guantanamo will wrap up 100 days of vigils and educational programs with a 10 a.m. rally near Capitol Hill [...]

Pope prays with Italian earthquake survivors

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the L’Aquila region, struck by an earthquake April 6, was delayed by an hour because heavy rains made it impossible for him to get there by helicopter.
Vatican journalists, including Rome bureau correspondent Carol Glatz, set off by bus at 6:30 this morning to be in place when [...]

America magazine reflects on century of triumphs, debates and faith

Our friends/clients at America magazine this month celebrated their 100th anniversary. As a bonus to our blog readers, here’s the story we distributed this week marking the momentous occasion. As reporter Chaz Muth observed in the story, “Only a handful of magazines have been around longer than America, and its impact on American Catholicism and [...]

‘Voice of the church’ together again

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since Pope Benedict XVI was here in Washington. Members of the 570-voice choir that sang for the pope at his first public Mass in the United States, at Nationals Park in Washington, recently reunited for the first time, as detailed in this story by Mark Zimmermann of [...]

Jumping the gun on the greening of the Vatican

VATICAN CITY — Several news  sources were all aglow last week saying the Vatican was going to build Europe’s biggest solar plant.
While that may be on Vatican engineers’ wish list, to be making such claims “is extremely premature right now,” Pier Carlo Cuscianna, director of technical services for Vatican City, told me today.
The Vatican turned [...]

Actor rediscovers his Catholic faith

The St. Anthony Messenger magazine has a profile of Canadian actor — and Catholic — Chris Kramer. Canadian TV watchers know him well from his star turn as Morgan Pym on the CityTV series “The Collector,” and U.S. audiences, if they’ve watched closely enough, would remember him last year as Chavez in four episodes of the CBS [...]