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Gunmen kill retired Philippine priest known for social activism
Unidentified men shot dead Father Marcelito Paez around 8 p.m. while he was driving in San Leonardo, about 110 miles northeast of the capital. The priest died almost three hours later at a local hospital.
No dispensation for this year’s Christmas Mass on Monday
Although Christmas this year is the day after the fourth Sunday of Advent, Catholics looking to count a Sunday evening Mass Dec. 24 for both that Sunday obligation and Monday's Christmas Mass obligation will have to think again.
Pope’s letter to Argentine bishops on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ part of official record
The papal letter from 2016 was written in response to guidelines of the bishops of the Buenos Aires region. Pope Francis said the bishops' document "explains precisely the meaning of Chapter VIII of 'Amoris Laetitia.' There are no other interpretations."
Msgr. John Miller, beloved by families and priests, dies at 80
Educated at the Vatican and for years a professor of liturgy and dean of men at St. Charles Seminary, the retired pastor of St. Frances Cabrini Parish died Dec. 1. His funeral is Dec. 5.
Sisters of Life bring joyful ministry to pregnant women in Philadelphia
Archbishop Chaput blessed the new home in Philadelphia for five vibrant sisters of the New York-based order. They will walk with women who are pregnant or healing after an abortion -- and lift up the city in daily prayer.
These Christmas cards spread good cheer while feeding the needy
Continuing a tradition for more than 30 years, the purchase of archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services' Alternative Christmas Cards will help restock food cupboards and soup kitchens.
Church leaders emphasize need for repentance, atonement for Korean peace
Clergy and laypeople from South Korea, the United States, Japan and other parts of the world also called for fewer military exercises between South Korea and the U.S. at the first-ever conference on the role of Catholics in building peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Catholic high school teacher inspired Meghan Markle’s outreach
Maria Pollia, a theology teacher at Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles, did not have to rack her brain to remember her former student Meghan Markle, the actress recently engaged to Prince Harry.
Croatian archbishop deplores ‘unjust verdicts’ after general’s suicide
Former Bosnian Croat military chief Slobodan Praljak committed suicide seconds after the verdict in the U.N. war crimes tribunal in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Praljak was appealing a prison term of 20 years.
Innu women testify that Oblate missionary inappropriately touched them
The revelations came during five days of hearings that ended Dec. 1 by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls regarding events in the Cote-Nord region in eastern Quebec.