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With Pa. as a model, education tax credits may come to federal budget
Health care wasn't the only issue before Congress this summer. A bill to cut $2.4 billion in federal education spending advanced, even as officials studied school choice options like Pennsylvania's EITC program.
Knights of Columbus planning to replace traditional uniform
The Knights of Columbus, long associated with swords, capes and chapeaus, will be going through a significant uniform change.
New Smithsonian exhibit explores diversity of religion in early America
The exhibit features artifacts from Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other major world religions. Peter Manseau, the museum's Lilly Endowment curator of American religious history, is the author of several books and curator of the new exhibit.
Ministries struggle to recruit men to help bring Christ to the youth
Founded in 1981, NET ministries, short for National Evangelization Teams, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading the Gospel by sending teams of young adults to evangelize teens throughout the nation through retreats and workshops.
USCCB president urges Trump to quickly act to ease contraceptive mandate
Citing Trump's pledge to ease the mandate during a White House signing ceremony May 4 for an executive order promoting free speech and religious liberty, Cardinal DiNardo lamented that after three months no steps have yet been taken to erase the HHS mandate for organizations that object to it for faith reasons.
Friar’s remains exhumed, relics collected ahead of beatification Mass
The remains of Father Solanus Casey were exhumed Aug. 1 as part of the canonical process that precedes the saintly Capuchin Franciscan friar's beatification Mass in November.
New film recalls faith, sacrifice of Maryknoll chaplain killed in Vietnam
Fifty years after he put himself between a wounded Marine and fatal enemy gunfire, the story of Maryknoll Father Vincent R. Capodanno's faith and sacrifice is being retold in a new movie.
A year after historic floods, high water devastates West Virginia again
Flash floods and landslides wracked the state's northern regions July 28-29 after a storm dumped three inches of rain in 36 minutes.
Bishop asks Congress to reject ‘discriminatory’ immigration bill
"Had this discriminatory legislation been in place generations ago, many of the very people who built and defended this nation would have been excluded," said Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, chair of the bishops' migration committee.
‘Mission is all the time’: FOCUS ministry doesn’t stop with school year
For the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, ministry spreads beyond campuses during the summer, taking college students on mission trips around the world.