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Advocates detail ways to shield kids from online exploitation
Advocates in online security gathered Nov. 5 in Washington to assess how children and young people are being exploited sexually online, and to discuss ways of addressing the issue.
Murder of Jesuits was marked with horror, but inspired defense of the poor
Thirty years after their murders, and well before then, what they left behind in their heroic deeds, their writings and speeches has inspired others to continue the slain Jesuits' work on behalf of the poor.
Ohio Senate bills will ‘give more babies a second chance,’ say supporters
The Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, or S.B. 208, passed with a 24-9 vote, and the Abortion Pill Reversal Act, or S.B. 155, passed with a 23-10 vote.
Siblings born two minutes apart continue strong bond as religious sisters
Benedictine Sisters Jill and Susan Reuber have often shared the same path in life, but their roads to their religious vocations took different turns.
Bishops vote to revise strategic priorities for the early 2020s
UPDATED - The U.S. bishops voted overwhelmingly Nov. 11 in Baltimore on a revised set of strategic priorities to take them into the next decade.
Archdiocese breaks ground, blesses site of Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine
Blessed Stanley Rother was a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and beginning in 1968, he served the faithful at a mission in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, sponsored by the archdiocese. He was brutally murdered there in 1981.
North Dakota university to name health sciences school for Italian saint
The University of Mary announced Nov. 1, All Saints' Day, that it would name the health sciences school in honor of St. Gianna Beretta Molla as it opened a fundraising campaign for the program.
Family prayer, reading lives of saints inspire vocations, says sister
How many Catholic parents today encourage their young children to consider a vocation to the priesthood or religious life? Sister Emily Beata Marsh's parents did, giving her the freedom to be open to the possibility.
Three generations of Catholic women marry in same church with same dress
Gabrielle Campo Hillman already knew what dress she would wear for her wedding earlier this year: a hand-sewn gown first worn by her grandmother in 1961, and then by her mother in 1986.
Murdered Jesuits inspired work, faith of Massachusetts congressman
This summer, when U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern took a congressional delegation to El Salvador to study the causes of migration, he planned a stop for the group at the place where six Jesuit priests who greatly influenced his work and faith are buried.