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‘Panama in the Capital’ offers World Youth Day experience closer to home
As World Youth Day 2019 came to a close in Panama, about 1,400 young adults representing about 20 U.S. dioceses gathered Jan. 26 at The Catholic University of America in Washington to join in the joy, prayer and fellowship of the global event.
Louisiana Catholic school features full-sized saints in every classroom
With more than $11,000 in donations, a new principal started a revitalization plan for her school, including new murals of saints, which "put religious feelings back in the school" and of which students are protective.
Catholic high school gives students with disabilities a home
Tenth grader Raymond Tetschner is the first student to be a part of a Maryland Catholic high school's new program that supports students with intellectual disabilities in an inclusive setting.
Catholic Schools Week celebrated across U.S. this week
Nearly 1.8 million students are currently educated in 6,352 Catholic schools, in which the church welcomes "families of all backgrounds while maintaining our principles and teaching in a spirit of charity," said a key bishop on education.
Catholic education official is used to thinking outside the box
Mary Pat Donoghue, the new education secretary at the USCCB, knows that Catholic schools have to be creative not just to compete, but sometimes to survive. She proved that by turning around a high school.
For Sister Carol Keehan, faith and health care go together
Sister Keehan, who has been CHA's leader for the past 14 years and has been an advocate of promoting health care access for all, is retiring at the end of June.
Catholic group joins suit over federal detention of immigrant youth
The Catholic Legal Immigration Network has joined in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of the more than 10,000 children currently being held by the Trump administration in detention centers across the country.
Archbishop Wester: ‘Catholic’ groups on ‘pro-choice’ ad not affiliated with church
Archbishop Wester said in his statement that the archdiocese and New Mexico's two other dioceses, Gallup and Las Cruces, "adamantly uphold" church teaching on the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death.
Notre Dame to cover historic Columbus murals; images seen as ‘demeaning’
Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of the university, has determined the historic murals depicting Columbus' arrival in the New World will be covered, saying he feels today those images marginalize certain groups.
Freedom of Religion Act seeks to ban immigration discrimination
The Freedom of Religion Act, introduced Jan. 16 in the House of Representatives, would -- if enacted in its current form -- ban religious discrimination in the U.S. immigration system.