CHICAGO – A fire burned for more than two hours Wednesday at Holy Name Cathedral, severely damaging the attic and leaving gaping holes in the roof of the 134-year-old landmark and seat of Cardinal Francis George. Firefighters battled the blaze in frigid temperatures at the iconic church, which had been destroyed in the Great Chicago…

VATICAN CITY — Responding to two weeks of international outcry, the Vatican on Wednesday (Feb. 4) demanded that a traditionalist bishop recant his statements denying the genocide of Jews during in the Holocaust. The statement from the office of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who as Secretary of State is the Vatican’s No. 2 official, said Bishop…

New York’s venerable Marble Collegiate Church, founded nearly 400 years ago and made famous by its longtime leader, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, named a new senior minister on Sunday (Feb 1). The Rev. Michael Brown, a United Methodist pastor from North Carolina, succeeds the Rev. Arthur Caliandro, who retired Sunday after heading the church…

Washington — Millard Fuller, the man who founded Habitat for Humanity and whose name was synonymous with volunteer faith-based efforts to build houses for the poor, died suddenly Tuesday (Feb. 3) after a brief illness. Fuller, 74, had suffered from a chest cold in recent weeks, said Holly Chapman, vice president of communications and development…

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