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Global cooperation needed in response to climate change, pope says
Pope Francis, meeting Nov. 11 with leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum, urged international cooperation to protect the environment and the world's oceans.
Time to give back to retired religious for service to church, say honorees
Cardinal McCarrick received the St. Katharine Drexel Award, and Jane Sullivan Roberts was given the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Award.
Bishops urge Congress to allocate funds for U.N. climate change agency
Support for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is essential to protecting the "God-given gift" of the environment "for the good of all," wrote Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida.
Immigration, criminal justice system top issues for Advocacy Day on Hill
Advocacy Day is the culmination of the 20th annual Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice Nov. 4-5 in the Washington suburb of Arlington, Virginia.
USCCB unveils new website for National Bible Week
The site, https://catholic.bible, is already up and running. It contains a survey from the American Bible Society on Catholics' use of the Bible.
At home and abroad: Bishops’ conferences show collegiality, solidarity
The role of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other bishops' conferences around the world is "catholic" -- working together to promote the church's mission, but also "to support peacebuilding and human development throughout the world."
Dreamers top priority for Hispanic ministry directors during Hill visits
About 80 diocesan Hispanic ministry directors and staffers blanketed Capitol Hill Nov. 8, delivering a message of compassion and understanding to lawmakers while pushing for a legislative fix for the Dreamers.
Speakers prompt young adults to help heal injustices and sin of racism
Calling racism the country's "national disease" and "our greatest injustice," Catholic speakers at an annual gathering of young adults asked the group to call out injustice in order to heal the hurt and damage it has caused, not just in the country but in humanity.
Religious freedom must be protected, says Catholic-Muslim dialogue
Christians and Muslims believe that freedom of conscience and religion are the most important human rights and, "therefore, our collective duty demands that we respect, preserve and promote such rights," said members of the Catholic-Muslim Forum
Forgotten Catholics: French author speaks on single people, celibacy
Single people are the forgotten members of the Catholic Church, said a Catholic journalist who has developed expertise on this issue over the past 20 years.