Local
Local Catholics welcome relic's return
Boston Police Superintendent-in-Chief Daniel Linskey venerates the Relic of the True Cross at a prayer service Aug. 18 in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Father Jonathan Gaspar, Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley's priest secretary, holds the monstrance-style reliquary displaying the relic. The relic had been stolen from the cathedral June 30, but was recovered with the assistance of the Boston and Vermont State Police Departments. Cathedral officials held the prayer service to thank God for the relic's safe return and thank local law enforcement for their assistance in its recovery. Pilot photo/Gregory L. Tracy
Nation
New 'social contract' needed in 21st-century economy, bishop says
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A new "social contract" is needed in today's economy, said Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., in the U.S. bishops' annual Labor Day statement.
Nation
Use of new Roman Missal to begin in US at Advent 2011
By Nancy Frazier O'Brien
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholics in the United States will begin using the long-awaited English translation of the Roman Missal on the first Sunday of Advent in 2011, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago said Aug. 20.
Nation
Impact of Mother Teresa's work, prayer still felt 13 years after death
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Thirteen years after her death, the impact of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's work and prayer is still felt around the world.
Mother Teresa would have turned 100 Aug. 26. The order she started 60 years ago -- the Missionaries of Charity -- continues its outreach to the "poorest of the poor." Her spiritual life also continues to gain attention as her sainthood cause progresses.
Nation
Colorado artist created image of Mother Teresa used for postage stamp
By Veronica Ambuul
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CNS) -- The commemorative stamp of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta being issued by the U.S. Postal Service bears a Colorado Springs postmark, so to speak.
Nation
New York mosque controversy echoes anti-Catholicism of another era
By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The controversy over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks away from ground zero in New York is but the latest manifestation of a historic cycle of distrust of immigrants -- and their faith.
Nation
Book examines stories behind secular news reporting on abuse crisis
By Julie Asher
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Greg Erlandson decided to write a book on the clergy sex abuse crisis because the secular media kept raising questions about Pope Benedict XVI's handling of cases in their coverage of a new wave of clergy sex abuse in dioceses around the world.
Nation
'God Squad' logo may change, but priest's mission remains the same
By Amy E. Rewolinski
ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (CNS) -- Two years ago, Father Luke Strand, then a deacon in his last year of studies to become a priest of the Milwaukee Archdiocese, came into the spotlight for his unusual looking car.
World
Commission nixes English Catholic adoption agency's bid on gay couples
By Simon Caldwell
LONDON (CNS) -- The Charity Commission for England and Wales has refused the adoption agency Catholic Care permission to amend its constitution so it can turn away gay and unmarried couples.
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Local
Glendon to be honored by local sisters
By Jim Lockwood
BRAINTREE -- As they prepare to further equip their sisters to be more effective evangelizers in a digital age, the Daughters of St. Paul are inaugurating an award by honoring a former Vatican ambassador who garnered national attention when she refused an award from a well-known Catholic university.
Local
Archdiocese defends blocking critical blog, seeks open dialogue
By Jim Lockwood
BRAINTREE -- The Archdiocese of Boston is rejecting criticism following its decision to block Pastoral Center employees' access to an anonymous blog questioning administrative practices of certain high-level officials.
Local
Two Boston priests laicized
By Pilot Staff
BRAINTREE -- In two separate and unrelated incidents, two priests of the Archdiocese of Boston were laicized after voluntarily requesting to leave the priesthood following allegations of sexual abuse of minors.
Local
Boston priest named to succeed bishop-elect at Blessed John seminary
By Father Robert M. O'Grady
Ensuring a smooth transition from one rector to another, Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley has announced the appointment of the Very Rev. William B. Palardy as the eighth rector of Blessed John XXIII National Seminary in Weston. Father Palardy's appointment is effective Sept. 2; and he succeeds Bishop-elect Peter Uglietto who will be ordained bishop on Sept. 14 and will then become the Regional Bishop of the North Region of the archdiocese.
Local
Father James Carroll granted senior priest status
By Father Robert M. O'Grady
Father James Carroll, a priest of the archdiocese since his ordination on June 12, 1968 has been granted senior priest/ retirement status due to health reasons. The Pilot announced this in late June. The effective date of his resignation as pastor of St. Mary Parish, Georgetown, which also serves Rowley, was delayed until the appointment of Father Carroll's successor. This will happen on Sept. 13, 2010 when Father Robert Poitras moves there from Milton.
Local
Father Robert A. Poitras named pastor in Georgetown
By Father Robert M. O'Grady
Cardinal Séan P. O'Malley has appointed Father Robert A. Poitras, until now parochial vicar at St. Agatha Parish, Milton, as pastor of St. Mary Parish, Georgetown. The Merrimack Region parish also serves the neighboring town of Rowley.
Local
Father Christopher Casey named pastor in Methuen
By Father Robert M. O'Grady
In some ways he'll be returning home. He was born on Sept. 18, 1960 in Methuen, though calls himself a Lawrence native and a son of the former St. Laurence O'Toole Parish, a graduate of the parish grammar school, Lawrence High School (1978) and UMass at Amherst (1982), Father Christopher Casey is one of the seven children of the late Cornelius and Mary (Donohue) Casey. His siblings are his sisters Ann Langlois, Amesbury; Mary Brouillette, Billerica; Shelia, Amesbury; and Sean, Newport, Vt. Two brothers, Cornelius and Timothy, are deceased. Cardinal O'Malley named his as pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in Methuen effective Sept. 1, 2010.
Local
CatholicTV to air new art show
By Pilot Staff
BOSTON-- Starting Sept. 6, "Way Of Beauty," a new Catholic art show, will debut on CatholicTV. The show is hosted by Oxford-educated David Clayton, currently Artist-in- Residence at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, N.H.
Opinion
The Church without Christ
Dwight G. Duncan
Flannery O'Connor's first novel Wise Blood revolves around a character named Hazel Motes who preaches a "Church without Christ," where you don't need to be saved, not when you've got a car at least. Hazel's car is eventually totaled, and he ends up blinding himself.
Opinion
Saving and being saved
Jaymie Stuart Wolfe
I imagine that just about everyone knows someone who has been out of a job for a very long time. With official unemployment rates hovering around 10 percent, and "under-employment" rates substantially north of that, chances are that if you have a job right now, you've never been more grateful for it. (At least that's what you'll keep telling yourself, if you know what's good for you!)
Opinion
Why is it wrong for judges to make law?
Daniel Avila
At the very moment I was at my home computer pondering how to open my column for this month on the role of judges, I received a call from a relative. She shared some information on some matter and then, when finished with that, started laughing. She said that she had purchased a new television recently, trading in an ancient model for a flat-screen version with a remote control. The acquisition and upgrade, she told me, had just caused her some confusion.
Opinion
When compromise trumps apostolic tradition
George Weigel
Pope Benedict XVI's pastoral visit to Great Britain next month will unfold along a pilgrim's path metaphorically strewn with landmines. Headline-grabbing new atheists like Richard Dawkins, along with their allies in the international plaintiff's bar, may try to have the pontiff arrested as an enabler of child abuse. More subtly, but just as falsely, homosexual activists and their allies will portray John Henry Newman, whom the Pope will beatify, as the patron saint of gay liberation. No challenge facing Benedict in Britain, however, will be greater than the challenge of re-framing the Anglican-Catholic ecumenical dialogue, which is on the verge of de facto extinction.
Opinion
Buckle down Winsocki
Clark Booth
It's the eve of another college football season. Sis boom Bah!
All the usual suspects appear to be present, accounted for, and in mid-season form.
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