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Be open to God’s love, bring joy to others, pope says
Bringing joy to others is the Christian's mission, and it requires remaining in God's love, living his commandments and loving without measure, Pope Francis said in a morning homily.
Papal celebration of Corpus Christi moves to Sunday
Cardinal Agostino Vallini said he hoped changing the date of the celebration to a non-work day would allow more people to participate in the traditional procession through Rome from the Basilica of St. John Lateran to the Basilica of St. Mary Major.
Remains of priest exhumed, verified as part of beatification process
Father Rother, a North American priest who worked in Guatemala and was brutally murdered there in 1981, will be beatified Sept. 23 in Oklahoma.
All are invited to ordination of new priests on Saturday
Ordinations are archdiocesan celebrations, and all the faithful are encouraged to come to the cathedral this Saturday, May 20, as Archbishop Chaput ordains two young men for the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
U.S. dioceses mark Fatima centennial with Masses, processions, devotions
Many Marian devotions took place around a visit of the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue, coordinated by the Munster-based International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima Foundation.
Upcoming St. Louis Taize event ‘first step’ to heal racial divides
Although it has been three years since the riots broke out in Ferguson, Missouri, many of the wounds have still not healed.
Outside cities, Chinese grandparents pass on faith to their grandchildren
Shanxi is one of the handful provinces in China with more than 200,000 Catholics. Numerous Catholic villages can be found in this rural area, where the faith has been passed down the generations since Franciscan missionaries introduced Catholicism in 1716.
Sydney archbishop on Cardinal Pell: Justice must run its course
Public prosecutors have submitted recommendations to Victoria Police on whether to try Australian Cardinal George Pell on decades-old abuse allegations, but their advice has not been made public.
Meeting pope gives hope to Huntington’s disease patients, expert says
Especially in poor countries, people suffering from Huntington's, a neural degenerative disorder, face discrimination and are forced to live in areas that "almost look like a leprosy colony" because "nobody wants to mix with them," the neuroscientist Ignacio Munoz-Sanjuan said.
Railroad is beginning of line for 100-year-old South Carolina church
St. Francis of Assisi Mission was built by parishioners who donated their time, money, hours of sweat and labor, and even the wood, so they could have their own church.