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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.
Congress urged to ‘fix fundamental flaws’ in final tax reform bill
"For the sake of all people -- but especially those we ought, in justice, to prioritize -- Congress should advance a final tax reform bill only if it meets the key moral considerations outlined in our previous letters," Bishop Frank J. Dewane said.
Sharing the journey: Mentor aids Sudanese refugee in new U.S. life
During his first year of adjusting to life in the United States, Sudanese refugee Bershlmaws "Alo" Koko has relied upon the guidance and friendship of Fritz French, a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Indianapolis.
32 Catholic fishermen dead, hundreds missing as typhoon hits India
Antony Silvaster, a Catholic fisherman in the fishing village of Vizhinjam, said there was no warning of the storm. He said that with 200 fishermen missing, the community expected the death toll to rise.
Bishop Robert Barron to speak in Cardinal Foley Lecture Series
The auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles and founder of Word on Fire Ministries will speak Jan. 29 in the series hosted by St. Charles Seminary's John Cardinal Foley Chair of Social Communications.