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Colorado priest says shooting at Colorado clinic antithesis of pro-life movement
Father Bill Carmody, longtime director of Respect Life director for the Diocese of Colorado Springs, says there is no place for violence in the pro-life movement. Bishop Michael J. Sheridan of Colorado Springs called the actions of the shooter "an act of pure evil."
Youths at national conference ‘get’ the vitality of the church
As 23,000 youths from across the country worshiped together during the closing Mass of the National Catholic Conference in Indianapolis, Leanna Long felt "amazingly overwhelmed" to be in the midst of so many people who shared her faith.
Kentucky teen says Catholic youth conference ‘will change my life’
"I've witnessed the most amazing thing in my life -- 24,000 kids kneeling and staring at the Eucharist," the 15-year-old from the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky, said Nov. 20.
Our Lady of Guadalupe shouldn’t be viewed as just a Mexican tradition
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been a religious and cultural hallmark for Mexican Catholics for centuries, but the custom received little attention from Anglo Catholics in the U.S. before the last few decades.
Pope names Vatican official head of U.S. Anglican ordinariate
After consultation with the governing council of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, Pope Francis named Msgr. Steven J. Lopes to be the first bishop of the ordinariate, which serves former Anglicans living in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
Day’s granddaughter urges Catholics to speak out against war, injustice
Dorothy Day's granddaughter Martha Hennessy looks a little like her grandmother with her pulled-back white hair, and although she is soft spoken, she likely sounds just like her activist grandmother, too, when talking about helping the poor and promoting peace.
Sainthood cause for local priest approved by U.S. bishops
After Archbishop Chaput presented the cause for canonization of Augustinian Father William Atkinson of Delaware County -- the first quadriplegic Catholic priest -- the nation's bishops moved the cause forward, along with two others.
Upon parenthood, people’s political views grow more similar, study finds
Liberals and conservatives view the social meaning of marriage differently, but "the way liberals and conservatives actually experience marriage is quite similar," said a new study by the American Family Survey.
Syrian refugees require compassion and acceptance in U.S., leaders say
Despite pleas from a Boston cardinal and the Maryland Catholic Conference, Congress passed a bill blocking Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the U.S. and governors in at least 30 states have called for an end to Syrian resettlement.
‘American Values’ survey shows a nation less tightly knit than before
There are "big partisan gaps, big racial and ethnic gaps" in the data, Jones said at a Nov. 17 forum at the Brookings Institution in Washington where the survey results were introduced.