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College students take journey to Catholic Church through RCIA on campus
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- It's Thursday evening, and Georgetown University's small Copley Crypt Chapel is filling up with students from every corner of campus.
SAT changes: Some colleges will not feel impact in application process
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- When major changes to the SAT college admissions test were recently announced, some college admissions officers didn't give the news much thought.
Peace walk, Stations of Cross procession call for end to gang violence
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. (CNS) -- Josue Barbosa Zamora died in a drive-by shooting Jan. 13, 300 feet from his front door, the latest young man to die violently in East Palo Alto.
Green Bay’s mayor invites Pope Francis to visit Wisconsin city in 2015
GREEN BAY, Wis. (CNS) -- If the National Football League's smallest city can be home to the four-time Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers, why can't it host a visit from Pope Francis?
Atheist group says 9/11 museum shouldn’t display cross-shaped beams
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A 17-foot-tall cross-shaped steel beam that was found in the wreckage two days after 9/11 became an indelible image in the months following the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001.
Pope Francis has ‘added new life’ to office he holds, U.S. bishops say
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In his first year as the 265th successor of Peter, Pope Francis "has brought to light new dimensions of the Petrine ministry and added new life to the office he holds," the U.S. bishops' Administrative Committee said March 11.
U.N. official lauds church support of migrants, asks for continued help
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The role of the Catholic Church is invaluable in keeping refugees safe, said the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, but his agency and others working with migrants need much, much more.
‘Great love of Jesus’ is best treasure anyone can have, inmates told
SALEM, Ore. (CNS) -- Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample told 55 inmates at the walled maximum security prison in Salem that they "are loved." "You have nothing to fear because God loves all of us," the archbishop told the inmates, clad in prison blues and wearing picture-ID cards, at Oregon State Penitentiary out State Street from the state Capitol.
Concerns raised about pace of U.S. response to global religious rights
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The role of an ambassador-level position in bringing attention to abuses of religious freedom internationally is being emphasized by those who want a vacancy filled quickly or another position created to focus on specific regions -- or both.
Lenten Fast for Families draws attention to immigration reform efforts
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The traditional Lenten practice of fasting is being paired this year with the latest round of an ongoing campaign called Fast for Families, intended to bring attention to the campaign for immigration reform. On Ash Wednesday, March 5, more than two dozen presidents of Catholic colleges and universities pledged to fast for 24 hours in support of the effort.