The Ethiopian Catholic Church

Michael La Civilta, executive editor on ONE magazine, writes about the tiny Ethiopian Catholic Church in the latest issue of the magazine. The magazine is the official publication of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, which works on behalf of the historic Christian East.

Interview with Nancy Wiechec

Many of the photos of Pope Benedict’s historic U.S. visit that you’ve seen on our home page and on this blog were taken by our visual media manager, Nancy Wiechec (right). Many of them are what I consider to be iconic images that you’ll be seeing for years to come, whether in our client publications [...]

Students use creativity to cover the pope

If you’ve noticed, a theme here this week is stories being told back home about seeing Pope Benedict.
Sister Carol Hoverman, editor of the archdiocesan newspaper The Witness in Dubuque, Iowa, has her own compilation of personal accounts. As she says, “Each person has a unique story to tell and memories that will last a lifetime.”
My favorite of [...]

A great quote about Yankee Stadium and the pope

We’ve written before about how Yankee Stadium, the “cathedral of baseball” to many sports fans, looked like a real cathedral for the pope’s Mass.
And we talked here yesterday about memorable moments and memorable quotes from the trip.
Well, following up on yesterday’s post about people bringing memories of the papal trip home to their local communities, I’d [...]

Talking about the pope back home

Numerous Catholic papers came out this past weekend with coverage of the papal trip but also personal reflections on how the trip touched the lives of local Catholics. Some examples:

The Catholic Explorer in the Diocese of Joliet, Ill., published first-person accounts on the papal trip from a local college president, the diocesan superintendent of schools, [...]

Cardinal O’Malley on meeting with victims

Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston gave an interview to his archdiocesan newspaper, The Pilot, headlined “Cardinal reflects on apostolic visit, meeting with victims.” We’re working on a story on it for today.
In the interview, Cardinal O’Malley calls the presentation of a book of names of abuse victims (left) to the pope a “very poignant moment [...]

Tomorrow’s White House meeting

Our Sunday Visitor’s Papal Visit 2008 blog reports on today’s White House press briefing in advance of tomorrow morning’s formal meeting between Pope Benedict and President Bush. For a look at what the two world leaders talked about last year when they met at the Vatican, here’s our coverage of last June’s first private encounter.

Navigating coverage of Benedict’s trip

Buckets of ink — both real ink and cyberink on blogsites — are being spilled these days on what the media coverage of Pope Benedict’s U.S. trip will be like. One of the better commentaries that I’ve seen on how to navigate that coverage appears in an unsigned editorial in the national Catholic newspaper Our [...]

More nightmares about covering papal events

Tim Drake, who runs the National Catholic Register’s Pope2008.com blog, has a few nightmares of his own to tell about covering papal events. It’s a follow-up to our post last week.

A little name change

Sharp-eyed viewers of these pages may have noticed a slight name change: Rather than calling this the CNS News Hub, we’re now simply calling it the CNS Blog.
The reason for the name change is equally simple. When this all started in 2006, the News Hub was a way chiefly to link to interesting stories from [...]