By Joyce Duriga and Daniel Smith
Catholic News Service
CHICAGO (CNS) -- Father Augustine Tolton was the first U.S. priest of African descent and may one day be a saint from the Archdiocese of Chicago.
The archdiocese is introducing the priest's cause for canonization, according to an announcement by Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George.
"It is appropriate that, during this Year for Priests, we recall our forebears who were holy men in the presbyterate" of the archdiocese, the cardinal told the Catholic New World, Chicago archdiocesan newspaper. (full story)
Pope approves German church rules in abuse crisis, archbishop says
Pope Benedict XVI encouraged German bishops to continue with their efforts to aggressively confront and seek solutions to the widening scandal of sexual abuse of minors in Catholic schools, the head of the German bishops' conference said.
