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Explaining ‘Amoris,’ Vatican official sees path to sacraments for remarried Catholics
A cardinal heading the Vatican committee to interpret canon law sees a two-fold way for divorced and remarried couples to receive Communion: they must recognize their situation is sinful and desire to change it.
For members of Siervas, ministry spans service, music for the soul
The 12 women religious in the group -- The Servants in English -- have taken their inspirational music to other countries and created hits that their fans sing and carry in their hearts.
Catholics wait: Where’s the exec order on religious freedom?
Talk of President Donald Trump possibly signing an executive order on religious freedom has been replaced with talk about what happened to it and what a final version, if there is one, will look like. It should have 5 key points, the bishops suggest.
NCEA leader says school choice support can help Catholic parents
"This could be a huge opportunity for parents wanting to choose the right school for their children," Thomas Burnford, NCEA president, told participants at the Archdiocese of San Francisco's annual high school teachers' consortium.
With nation divided, Rev. King’s words still resonate, say church leaders
"Dr. King's message of tolerance, human dignity and peace is just as meaningful and necessary today as it was in the 1950s and 1960s," said a Houston-area deacon. Reflecting on the actions of a peacemaker is important in a time of unrest.
Pope praises abuse survivor for breaking silence
The church has a duty "to act with extreme severity with priests who betray their mission and with the hierarchy who protect them," the pope wrote in the preface to a new book written by a man raped as a child by a Capuchin priest.
Council of Cardinals publicly expresses support of pope
After a handful of public challenges to Pope Francis' teaching and authority, the members of the pope's international Council of Cardinals began their February meeting expressing their "full support" for his work.
Jealousy threatens fellowship in families, among clergy, pope says
The biblical story of Cain murdering his brother Abel is a cautionary tale on the consequences of allowing bitterness to persist in one's life, the pope said.
Be Christians of substance, not appearance, pope says at Angelus
"May the Virgin Mary, woman of docile listening and joyful obedience, help us to approach the Gospel not just having a Christian 'facade,' but being Christian in substance," he said.
Deacon Philip Heaney laid to rest from Maternity Parish in NE Phila.
Ordained in 1996 and married for 52 years, the deacon was an accountant by trade but “if anyone asked him what his career was, he probably would have said deacon,” his son said. He died Feb. 7 at age 78.