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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.

We Thirst Lessons in Mercy

This four-week series begins with a focus on the biology of addiction.

Annual Our Lady of Guadalupe Dinner

Priests, Sisters, Nuns and Clergy we would like to invite you to be guest at one of our tables. So no charge for you! Thank you for giving your life to Christ and His Church!