Saint Leo University held a commencement ceremony last week for about 140 students, mostly working adults and including military personnel serving at MacDill Air Force Base. ...more

June 25, 2008

A fire in the social hall attic of St. Patrick's Catholic Church forced the congregation outside just before 9 a.m. Mass on Sunday. ...more

June 16, 2008

TAMPA A fire in the social hall attic of St. Patrick's Catholic Church this morning forced the congregation outside just before the 9 a.m. Mass. ...more

June 15, 2008

You can never plan too far ahead. That's what Elaine Carbonneau of Friends of Sacred Heart is thinking these days. She has put out the call for wedding pictures from all ceremonies at her church for a project that won't be unveiled until early 2010. ...more

May 24, 2008

TAMPA - At an emotional funeral service for Tampa Police Department Master Patrol Officer Victor Guerrero, dignitaries remembered him as a good officer and loving family man who deserved respect. ...more

May 7, 2008

The funeral for Tampa Police Master Patrol Officer Victor Guerrero, 47, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Lawrence Catholic Church, according to a police spokeswoman. ...more

May 6, 2008

PLANT CITY - When construction is completed next year on a 68-unit affordable-housing project planned by St. Clement Catholic Church, it will rise above the church's fellowship hall and its tallest spire. ...more

February 8, 2008

In the 17th century, the Catholic Church rejected the teaching of Galileo on the grounds that it contradicted Scripture. Today, one would be hard pressed to find anyone who would not accept Galileo's position. The problem was not with Scripture, but with the church's understanding of both Scripture and the science Galileo taught. Apparently, some members of the School Board of Highlands County have not learned that lesson and persist in making the same error the Catholic Church did centuries ago. The creation myths of Genesis I and II affirm our belief in God as creator but cannot be understood as giving us a scientific historical description of creation itself. The first two chapters of Genesis both say the same thing but their particulars vary and contradict one another. Did God create man and women both at the same time and after he created animals as in Genesis I or did God create Adam and then the animals before taking a rib from Adam to make Eve as in Genesis II? ...more

February 1, 2008

Hundreds of mourners, many sobbing, gathered Monday at Athens' cathedral to file past the remains of Archbishop Christodoulos, the first leader of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church to welcome a Catholic pope to Athens in 1,300 years. ...more

January 29, 2008

Popular Ybor City activist Victor DiMaio Sr., who died a week ago at 83, will be laid to rest today after a reception this morning in his honor. ...more

January 5, 2008