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Religious groups made effort to drive their flocks to midterm voting
Many religious groups were able to mobilize their flocks and form coalitions with other denominations around issues such as feeding the hungry, immigration and refugee resettlement.
Is China’s targeting of Catholics pushback from low-level party officials?
Although China and the Vatican signed a provisional agreement on the appointment of bishops in September, persecution of Chinese Catholics continues.
Atlanta archbishop releases list of credibly accused priests
In releasing a list Nov. 6 of the names of 15 priests, seminarians, and those under direct authority of a religious order "credibly" accused of sexual abuse of a minor, Archbishop Gregory expressed profound sorry, and renewed an apology for the damage abuse has done to "young lives," and families.
Kavanaugh could be deciding vote in Supreme Court death penalty case
The latest death penalty case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court was not about if a death-row prisoner should be executed, but how.
Archbishop praises West Virginians for ending taxpayer funding of abortion
Voters Nov. 6 approved Amendment 1, which adds to the state constitution: "Nothing in this constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of abortion."
Resist the ‘cold shadow’ of euthanasia, says Cardinal Collins
Speaking at the 39th annual Cardinal's Dinner in Toronto Nov. 8, the cardinal urged 1,600 attendees to fight attempts to expand Canada's euthanasia law to include minors.
Years in gulag helped make Ukrainian dissident a Catholic
Few dissidents who were exiled to gulags, the labor camps run by the Soviet Union, would think of them as pleasant experiences.
Bishop tells court Plowshares action is rooted in Catholic teaching
Testifying as an expert witness on behalf of the Kings Bay Plowshares activists, Bishop Joseph R. Kopacz said their actions were consistent with long-standing Catholic teaching about the sinfulness of nuclear weapons.
Modern martyrs show unity in Christ, pope and catholicos say
Appealing to the international community to help bring peace to Syria and Iraq, Pope Francis and Catholicos Gewargis III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also paid homage to the lands' persecuted Christians.
Pope to journalists: Counter resignation, evil with ethics, passion
Break through every "wall" of gloom and resignation and help the world realize people need to take care of one another because they are all part of one human family, Pope Francis told Catholic journalists.