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Shareholders push U.S. telecom firms to tackle online child sexual abuse
The effort involves a widening campaign designed to push leading U.S. telecoms to take strong action to block explicit images from their growing communication networks and information platforms.
Police conduct search at Dallas diocesan sites for files on alleged abusers
Dallas police, probing sexual abuse allegations into six current or former priests, raided diocesan offices, a records-storage site and a parish where one priest under investigation last resided.
Pro-life leaders applaud passage of bill to ban most abortions in Alabama
UPDATED - The state Senate passed the measure late May 14 in a 25-6 vote. It includes exceptions for when the life or health of the mother is seriously threatened and when the child has a fatal disease. It bans abortion in all other circumstances, including rape and incest.
Jesuit astronomer works to unravel the mysteries of galactic evolution
An astronomer on the Vatican Observatory staff, Father Richard D'Souza studies halos of stars that have fallen into one galaxy from another during collisions and mergers can provide clues to a galaxy's multibillion-year history.
Bishop Barron says book on abuse crisis written from his ‘pastor’s heart’
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron says Catholics are understandably "demoralized and scandalized" by the abuse crisis but he urges them to "stay and fight for the body of Christ."
Local Knights of Columbus to help with slain Colorado teen ‘hero’ funeral
Knights of Columbus Council 4844 of Southwest Denver has set up a fund to help the family of Kendrick Castillo with the boy's funeral and will be helping during services, private and public, to honor his life.
Supreme Court justices defend divergent death penalty views
The flurry of opinions issued May 13 -- more than 30 pages in all -- reviews the high court's responses to recent death penalty cases that appear contradictory.
New York cardinal celebrates Mass for Sri Lanka victims and families
New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan offered a heartfelt homily on Staten Island on Mother's Day in memory of the victims of the Easter terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka that left more than 250 dead and hundreds wounded.
New York religious leaders endorse bill to end solitary confinement
Solitary confinement is in widespread use in prisons across the United States and, in New York state alone, more than 3,000 inmates are isolated in 6-by-10 cells for over 23 hours a day.
Chicago archbishop apologizes for Farrakhan visit to Catholic Church
Cardinal Cupich says he was blindsided by Farrakhan's invitation to speak at Chicago's St. Sabina Church May 9 and is condemning his remarks.