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Woman religious urges college students to help at border
"We have passion and energy, but we're getting older!" Sister Mary McCabe told the students, pleading with them to join the sisters' efforts with even the small step of submitting public comment with the Department of Homeland Security against the indefinite detention of immigrant children.
Richmond bishop honored for steps to address abuse crisis, promote healing
Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond, Virginia received the St. Luke Award at the 2018 annual benefit for St. Luke Institute, which provides treatment and education for priests and consecrated men and women religious worldwide.
Nations are built by migrants, pope says
Countries do not develop by themselves, and migrants often travel to a new land in a group, like those currently traveling through Central America and Mexico, pope Francis told a group of missionaries.
Catholic groups urge humane treatment of migrants headed to border
As a group from Central America heads to the border between the U.S. and Mexico, the Trump administration is said to be getting ready to send troops to meet them and Catholic groups are asking that the migrants be treated humanely.
’60 Minutes’ probes handling of abuse claims by Buffalo Diocese
How the diocese handles cases of priests suspected of abuse was the subject of a report by the CBS newsmagazine, which talked to a woman who leaked diocesan files on those priests.
Federal authorities order USCCB, dioceses to retain documents
With the Justice Department's request for 197 U.S. dioceses and the national bishops' conference to keep all files pertaining to sex abuse allegations, the probe that began in Pa. appears to be extending nationwide.
Trappist Father Keating, leading figure in centering prayer, dies at 95
With the encouragement of St. Paul VI to rediscover the contemplative tradition, Father Keating helped found Contemplative Outreach for centering prayer -- a technique of praying silently to God without words -- in 1984.
Father James Melle, native of Norristown, dies at 74
A parish priest and teacher at four Catholic high schools in the archdiocese, the priest ordained in 1972 will be laid to rest Oct. 31 in the presence of two bishops and other priest friends, who remember him fondly.
Vandalism, monk’s arrest concern Holy Land church leaders
In one week, "excessive force" was used by Israeli police against a Coptic monk, and the cemetery of a Salesian monastery was damaged for the third time in two years.
Feds denied permission to survey Texas church property for border wall
UPDATED - Federal officials sought entry to two properties of the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, to survey the land for a border wall. But the bishop did not consent, saying a wall "would limit freedom of the church to exercise her mission."