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Cardinal, other faith leaders, scientists urge action on climate change
"As a community of faith leaders, we have worked together to alleviate poverty, to fight racial and social injustice, and to defend human life. All of these social goods are negatively impacted by climate change, which devastates the most vulnerable and jeopardizes us all."
Archbishop Ryan freshman almost perfect in key playoff win
Dana Bell pitched like a seasoned veteran allowing only one runner to reach base in Ryan's Catholic League softball semifinal win over Archbishop Wood. In two playoff games she has allowed three hits, one walk and no earned runs.
Pope to police: A nation can’t survive without families teaching values
The world lacks tenderness today, but families can help bring it back, Pope Francis said.
German priest criticized, ridiculed for headscarf protest
Father Wolfgang Sedlmeier said he wished to protest discrimination against Muslims and Jews.
Abortion doesn’t protect women’s human rights, Vatican official says
"In fact, abortion denies the unborn child his or her most basic right -- to life itself," said Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva.
Veterans found ‘life-changing,’ ‘healing’ experience at Lourdes
Veterans taking part in the 2018 Warriors to Lourdes pilgrimage to France said the journey has positively influenced their lives and benefited those around them.
More annulment processes done for free, Vatican statistics show
Many dioceses in the United States and Canada already had been subsidizing all or part of the costs involved in the process when, in 2015, Pope Francis issued documents reforming part of the annulment processes.
Vote on revised medical directives on tap at bishops’ spring assembly
The bishops also will consider a new document described as a "pastoral response" to the growing Asian and Pacific Island Catholic community in the United States.
St. Gabriel’s horticultural program plants the seeds of success
Out of the city and living in the Montgomery County countryside, at-risk young men are learning in the classroom and on the grounds how to plant vegetables and maintain lawns while working as teammates.
New Vatican document on economy given high marks in U.S.
The document takes a dim view of "the indiscriminate expansion of profits," said a Catholic university economist. While it doesn't trash free markets, it says economics "can be put at the service of man, or become oppressors."