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Investors convince PNC to stop financing mountaintop removal mining
Faith-based investors lauded PNC Financial Services' decision to no longer finance coal-mining firms' major mountaintop removal ventures in Appalachia.
Cardinal Egan’s ‘pearl of great price’ described as his faith in Jesus
At his funeral Mass March 10 in New York's splendid St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cardinal Edward M. Egan was remembered as a churchman whose faith in Jesus Christ outshone even his considerable temporal qualities.
Catholic officials denounce video, actions of alum of Dallas school
Dallas Catholic officials quickly denounced the now infamous viral video that captured University of Oklahoma fraternity members in a racist chant, saying that the action of a recent Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas graduate seen in the video was "vile and repulsive."
Templeton winner hopes L’Arche communities ‘may become sign of peace’
Jean Vanier, a Catholic author and theologian who founded L'Arche, an international network of communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together, has won the 2015 Templeton Prize.
Vanier cites St. Therese of Lisieux, Gandhi as spiritual role models
In 1964, when Jean Vanier quietly began what would become an international network, he had "no idea that this would be a revolutionary reality ... that it would grow," he remarked joyfully.
Measures aim to protect religious liberty of child welfare providers
U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, and U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pennsylvania, have introduced companion bills titled the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015.
Bishop hails override of governor’s veto of bill to protect unborn
Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston praised the West Virginia Legislature for passing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, making West Virginia the 11th state to pass such legislation.
Minimum wage, wage theft among issues of concern to Iowa Catholics
Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City joined Archbishop Michael O. Jackels of Dubuque and Bishops Martin J. Amos of Davenport and Richard E. Pates of Des Moines in meeting with Iowa lawmakers on issues of interest to the state's Catholics.
Mass marks 50 years since Selma civil rights marches
The message of the civil rights movement has always been that all people are created in the image and likeness of God and that the dignity of all must be respected, said Archbishop Thomas Rodi, celebrant for Mass March 8 in Selma, Ala.
Cardinal Egan, retired archbishop of New York, dies at age 82
The late cardinal died suddenly of cardiac arrest March 5. Archbishop Charles Chaput offered condolences and the prayers of the faithful of the Philadelphia Archdiocese to the cardinal's family and the New York Archdiocese.