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Election guides and helping voters form conscience before casting ballot
"Faithful Citizenship" and "For the Health of the Nation" are both meant to provide a moral framework voters can use to analyze the issues.
All six dioceses in Illinois sued over clergy sexual abuse allegations
An attorney and three others who said they were sexually abused by priests filed a suit that did not seek damages but instead wants the state's dioceses to release all of their records on abusive priests.
March for Life in January will emphasize ‘pro-life is pro-science’
The Jan. 18, 2019 annual rally in Washington will stress that science proves life begins at conception, and research should focus on adult stem cells, not those taken from aborted babies.
As number of U.S. women religious decline, they look to future
Data show 300 women's religious institutes will likely phase out of existence in the next decade. The number of sisters has declined by 75 percent since 1965 with no change in the trend expected.
Response to sexual abuse crisis tops agenda for bishops’ meeting
The firestorm surrounding the clergy sex abuse crisis and the way some bishops handled allegations of abuse will dominate the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' fall assembly Nov. 12-14 in Baltimore -- see an analysis.
Church shelter in Guatemala swamped by Hondurans heading north
A Scalabrini shelter has served 1,700 Hondurans in a caravan seeking to reach the U.S. border. Staff is exhausted managing the "chaos," while migrants traveling on foot through the rain are sleeping outside.
Doctrine won’t change, but LGBTQ Catholics need care, U.S. observer says
One group's discussions at the Synod of Bishops concerning the LGBTQ community focused on how the Catholic Church could best minister to people who already feel attacked by the church itself.
‘Battlefield’ of polemics in writing ‘Humanae’ clouded stress on mercy
A scholar studying the development of the church's landmark teaching on human life 50 years ago says the politics of the past are present today, and they obscure St. Paul's respect for women and families' modern problems.
Church must reach out to young non-Catholics, Venezuelan says
A young leader from Venezuela proposed creating local "youth networks" where all young people can talk about their lives and grow in friendships in order to "discover the face of Jesus in friends and in those who most in need."
Community baby shower shows ‘what being pro-life is all about’
Archdiocesan Catholic Social Services (CSS) teamed up with St. Raymond Parish to help 300 expectant moms at an Oct. 13 gathering, as part of CSS's outreach to over 5,000 pregnant women each year.