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Church still stands ready to offer help to abuse victims, says bishop
"Victims of abuse have helped us see the errors of the past," Bishop Burns said in a Nov. 10 telephone interview from Juneau with Catholic News Service. "It's important that we assist them in the healing process."
Priest: Child’s funeral brings mourners to ‘intersection of pain, anger’
The execution-style murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was not what God wanted to happen, Father Michael Pfleger said at Tyshawn's funeral Nov. 10.
For 50 years, North American dialogue plants seed of Catholic-Orthodox unity
Fifty years ago, a group of American Catholic and Orthodox clergy and theologians undertook an unprecedented step under the auspices of their respective churches toward better understanding and, it was hoped, eventual unity. But the participants representing the churches never saw each other.
New Jersey Catholic hospitals worry they’ll be left out of new alliance
In September, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey unveiled the OMNIA health alliance, a collaboration with a number of large health systems to change how care is provided and reimbursed.
Sister who cooks for soup kitchen wins prize on Food Network’s ‘Chopped’
On the show, Sister Alicia, 30, a Franciscan of the Eucharist of Chicago who ministers at Chicago's Mission of Our Lady of the Angels, competed against three other chefs who, like herself, work in soup kitchens.
As church demographics shift, Catholics urged to address ‘sin of racism’
A "seismic shift in demographics" in both society and the U.S. Catholic Church in the coming decades will create a church that is far less white, Father Bryan Massingale told a New Orleans audience Nov. 6.
Milwaukee’s bankruptcy plan approved, provides $21 million for survivors
A nearly five-year chapter in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee's history came to a close Nov. 9, when Chief Judge Susan V. Kelley of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin approved the archdiocese's plan of reorganization.
Catholics to U.N. summit: Warmer temperatures are just part of the problem
Yeb Sano, former climate change commissioner for Philippines, is so concerned about global warming that he and other Catholic pilgrims are walking 900 miles from Rome to Paris for the U.N. climate change conference.
Teen boys from Milwaukee advocate for immigration reform in Hill visits
Their presentations to members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation -- usually to legislative assistants -- mentioned their mothers, admiration of their parents' courage and the importance of dealing with their situations face to face, not as statistics.
Layman overseeing Vatican financial reform says new standards are working
New accounting practices and ongoing auditing are helping to assure that the Vatican's financial operations are conducted in accordance with international accounting standards, Joseph F. X. Zahra, deputy coordinator of the recently established Council for the Economy.