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Veterans found ‘life-changing,’ ‘healing’ experience at Lourdes
Veterans taking part in the 2018 Warriors to Lourdes pilgrimage to France said the journey has positively influenced their lives and benefited those around them.
Vote on revised medical directives on tap at bishops’ spring assembly
The bishops also will consider a new document described as a "pastoral response" to the growing Asian and Pacific Island Catholic community in the United States.
New Vatican document on economy given high marks in U.S.
The document takes a dim view of "the indiscriminate expansion of profits," said a Catholic university economist. While it doesn't trash free markets, it says economics "can be put at the service of man, or become oppressors."
Medal of Honor recipient now advocates for vets with PTSD
"Every person who's been to combat or has had to clean up the mess from combat has got PTSD," said Captain Gary M. Rose, a Catholic. "One of the things I'm really concerned about is the severity in some cases is such that there needs to be intervention."
Scouts see how different faith traditions live out Ten Commandments
Each year for the past decade, a group of Boy Scouts in Ogden have spent a day walking from house of worship to house of worship, learning how the Ten Commandments are put into practice in different faith traditions.
Ryan, Brownback, archbishop address National Catholic Prayer Breakfast
This year's National Catholic Prayer breakfast took on a decidedly Kansas flavor, as Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City and Sam Brownback, a former House and Senate member and governor of Kansas, addressed nearly 1,000 gathered at a Washington hotel May 24.
Students say FOCUS mission trips strengthen their faith, desire to serve
Nearly 240 people traveled on 11 spring break trips to serve the people of Peru's Pamplona Alta, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Lima.
To stop immigration, end military aid, help Hondurans instead, says Jesuit
Military aid, Father Ismael Moreno Coto believes, contributes to a government that not only practices repression on its citizens, but doesn't do anything to stop the country's socioeconomic ailments.
U.S. Catholics donate nearly $59 million to hurricane, earthquake relief
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in a news release reported amounts raised for disaster relief: Hurricane Harvey, $37.2 million; Hurricane Irma, $12.8 million; Hurricane Maria, $6.1 million; Mexico earthquakes, $3.5 million.
Chicago priest’s effort to build community earns national award
Named a pastor while still in his 20s, Father O'Donnell listened to residents and parishioners then recruited volunteers to offer ministries that have made his parish an anchor in the South Side Chicago area.