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Honoring saints can heal body, soul, says priest leading relics tour
Father Carlos Martins travels around the United States and beyond speaking about the faith, and -- perhaps more importantly -- providing people with tangible evidence to pursue their devotion in the exposition and veneration of sacred relics.
Supreme Court’s recent actions reveal its death penalty divide
In two recent actions, the U.S. Supreme Court revealed its death penalty decisions are hardly cut and dried.
‘Our nation is better’ than to allow infanticide, pro-life chairman says
As Republicans in the U.S. House sought to force a vote on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, pro-life leaders lauded the bill that would offer abortion survivors the same medical care as babies born prematurely.
People of faith seen as key to creating more humane correctional system
Prisons should be places where punishment is the absence of freedom and community, but where "everything else models life on the outside to every degree possible" and prisoners are treated with dignity.
American bishops praise pope’s new letter on concerns of youth
Archbishop Charles Chaput was one of two American bishops who called Pope Francis' new document “a wonderful summons to the church to more vigorously invest in youth and young adults."
Maryland Day marks special homecoming for 17th-century iron cross
A 17th-century iron cross believed to have been hammered together by a blacksmith on board a voyage from England to the new Maryland colony nearly 400 years ago returned to St. Clement's Island in Southern Maryland.
Georgia house passes fetal heartbeat bill; legal challenges to follow
The Georgia House of Representatives, under Republican control, passed by a 92-78 vote March 29 the "Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act."
Jesuit: Without the Amazon, ‘we all go under’
What's happening in the Amazon affects immigration patterns, hunger, poverty, medicine, political systems, not to mention the irreversible damage to a planet that humanity calls home and one that can't be replaced.
Texas looking into city vote to bar restaurant chain over marriage views
San Antonio City Council voted "to exclude Chick-fil-A from the list of concessionaires that could operate at San Antonio International Airport" because the company is known for its support of traditional marriage.
New head of CLINIC is experienced litigator, expert on immigration law
Raised in Philadelphia, Anna Gallagher got a bachelor's degree in political science and Latin American studies from Temple University, earned her law degree at the Antioch School of Law in Washington three years later, and dove right into immigration law work.