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Vatican makes progress on pushing drug availability for kids with HIV
An initiative to identify and properly treat children living with HIV has gained new momentum as international organizations and pharmaceutical companies respond to a Vatican push to look past profit to doing the right thing.
Filipino Catholic media urged to confront ‘fake news’
Filipinos working in the church's social communication ministry need a lot of prayer and a "sense of mission" to be able "to combat fake news" and work for peace, a gathering in Davao City was told this week.
Underground priests removed in China for holding summer youth camp
The Tianshui Municipal Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee sent a letter asking the local branch of the state-controlled Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association to send personnel to replace the priests.
After 100 years, Marian shrine in Alberta still draws thousands
It's easy to drive by the stone grotto at the Skaro shrine for those who don't know its history. Yet, thousands of pilgrims flock to Skaro every year to honor Mary Aug. 14-15 as they have done for 100 years.
Abuse expert: Crisis is call to new vision of priesthood, accountability
Jesuit Father Hans Zollner said the crisis unfolding, again, in the United States is a summons to a new way of envisioning the church and taking responsibility for it.
Report on clergy sex abuse in Pa. still in holding pattern
Last-minute legal maneuvering sought to keep some names from appearing in a grand jury report detailing clergy sexual abuse claims in six dioceses in the state. The report may be released as late as Aug. 14.
Young minds, good veggies growing at Bonner-Prendergast HS
The Upper Darby Community Garden located at the archdiocesan high school is already producing food for the community while engaging students with the wider community, for the benefit of both.
Family and friends praise centenarian’s endless legacy of love, faith
A positive outlook, along with a strong faith in God, has carried Vashti Jackson Woodson through the years to the upcoming celebration of her milestone centennial birthday Aug. 25.
Small Indian state of Goa has large impact on Catholic Church in Asia
Jesuit missionaries, who have been based on the subcontinent's southwest coast since the 16th century, still are having a ripple effect across the entire continent, despite alleged attempts to "ethnically cleanse" the area of Catholics in the past.
Bishop, other cyclists revel in spiritual component of annual Iowa ride
Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula viewed RAGBRAI as an opportunity to follow Pope Francis' call to go to the peripheries, to be in the midst of the sheep, to have the smell of the sheep, to be in touch with the world outside church walls.