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Fatima seers become church’s youngest non-martyred saints
Pope Francis on Saturday canonized two shepherd children who saw Mary at Fatima, but more importantly, they prayed for sinners and trusted in the Lord.
In super-competitive Catholic League, ‘anything can happen’
Eight of the 12 baseball teams in the league are separated by a whisker. When the regular season ends next Monday, four teams might finish at 9-3. That is why it is the best league in the area," said one player.
Latin American bishops appeal for aid for food-short Venezuela
Bishops from across Latin America condemned the ongoing violence in Venezuela and called for the church to find ways to provide charity to the South American country amid food shortages that have left thousands hungry.
Mexican archdiocese warns against veneration of ‘pseudo saint’
A Mexican archdiocese is warning against the veneration of a "pseudo saint" created to legitimize criminal activities such as stealing gasoline, saying it is "playing with people's faith."
Delco faithful raise their voices National Day of Prayer
Residents of various faiths offered prayers for the nation and for each other in a tradition begun under President Truman. The May 4 event in Media was one of five in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Father Chuck’s Challenge pours millions into homes for poorest families
After 10 years of hard work the local charity has raised $5.8 million and provided 1,100 desperately poor families in Nicaragua and Haiti with sturdy houses of their own, something that was beyond their wildest dreams.
Family farmers facing worst financial stretch since the 1980s
After a relatively lengthy period of prosperity in the early part of this decade, prices for "row crops" -- corn, soybeans and wheat -- have slid to levels where farmers spend more to raise the crops than they'll get back in sales.
Pilgrimage to Fatima a time of prayer, encounter, pope says
The pope's trip was planned for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Mary's apparitions to three shepherd children in Fatima.
Canadians urged to use hands, hearts, heads to end abortion
Speaking May 11 to thousands of pro-life supporters at Parliament Hill on a blustery day, Cardinal Collins said euthanasia and the crushing of conscience rights "brings shame to our country."
Anti-death penalty activist says she wrestled with issue and ‘God won’
Marietta Jaeger-Lane could have killed with her bare hands the man who kidnapped and murdered her daughter. Now she is a leader of the National Catholic Pledge to End the Death Penalty, which launched May 11.