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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."
Cardinal: Communion cannot be shared with friends like beer or cake
Cardinal Francis Arinze said any moves to give greater access to Communion to divorced and remarried Catholics and to non-Catholic spouses of Catholics represented "serious" challenges to the teaching of the church on the Eucharist.
Medal of Honor recipient now advocates for vets with PTSD
"Every person who's been to combat or has had to clean up the mess from combat has got PTSD," said Captain Gary M. Rose, a Catholic. "One of the things I'm really concerned about is the severity in some cases is such that there needs to be intervention."
Scouts see how different faith traditions live out Ten Commandments
Each year for the past decade, a group of Boy Scouts in Ogden have spent a day walking from house of worship to house of worship, learning how the Ten Commandments are put into practice in different faith traditions.