Vatican restorers set to work on St Peter’s centrepiece
Vatican City Reuters The giant bronze-and-wood canopy in the middle of St Peter’s Basilica is being gradually engulfed by scaffolding as Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s masterpiece gets its first major restoration since the mid-1700s. The almost 30-metre-high canopy covers the high altar of the basilica, and was built on the spot where St Peter, the first […]
US priest who founded Knights of Columbus is beatified
Hartford, Connecticut, USAP The late Connecticut priest who founded the Knights of Columbus moved a step closer to possible sainthood with his beatification Saturday, as authorised by Pope Francis. The celebration for Rev Michael McGivney at the Cathedral of St Joseph in Hartford included the reading of a letter from Francis and the unveiling of […]
US CATHOLICS: HOW THE ‘GREAT WAR’ WAS CONNECTED TO THE CREATION OF AMERICA’S CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
MICHAEL MCKINLEY, writing for Religion News Service, takes a look at the connections between World War I and the creation of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops…