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For Cuban exiles, painful memories mix with relief at Castro’s death
Despite the joy on the streets of Little Havana, Westchester and Hialeah, the death of Fidel Castro in 2016 means much less than it would have in 1976 or even 2006. An oppressive regime still shackles basic freedoms on the island.
Follow drug supply chains to corrupt banks, financiers, pope says
The "vast, powerful networks" behind the drug trade kill not only those who become slaves to drugs, he said, they also kill those "who want to destroy this slavery" -- such as judges or others who seek to stamp out criminal organizations.
Coordinated, creative approach needed to stem drug use, speakers say
More than 50 experts in medicine, science, the judicial system, government and social policy, and pastoral care were invited to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to discuss innovative and effective solutions to drug use, abuse and prevention.
By plane, train and bus, Chaldean priest visits Iraqi refugees in Turkey
Being the only Chaldean Catholic priest in charge of pastoral work in Turkey, Father Adday, as he is known, has become a true itinerant priest, a road warrior who, each year, logs thousands of miles tending his flock, the community of Iraqi Christian refugees in Turkey.
Pope indicates he will travel to Ireland in 2018
After meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said the pope confirmed he will visit Ireland in 2018 and that trip organizers would look at the possibility of a stop in Northern Ireland.
Big crowd could have watched Eagles’ game, but they stood up for life instead
Some 1,300 pro-life Catholics defied conventional wisdom -- don't schedule a fundraiser while the Eagles are playing -- and packed a hotel for the annual Stand Up for Life Dinner Nov. 20 to benefit the area's largest pro-life organization.
Pope speaks to Jesuits about discernment, vocations, poverty
Pope Francis called for a recovery of moral reasoning after the example of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure, who "affirm that the general principle holds for all but as one moves to the particular, the question becomes diversified and many nuances arise without changing the principle."
Life lost, church and other buildings damaged in natural gas explosion
The blast, which killed one utility worker and injured 11, occurred just before 6 p.m. as workers with the local power company attempted repairs after a third-party contractor had ruptured a gas line behind the city's historic Opera House.
HHS contraceptive mandate in limbo awaiting action by new administration
Even though nothing has been announced yet, Mark Rienzi, lead attorney for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty seems confident Donald Trump's campaign promises to repeal some or all of the Affordable Care Act would very likely put the contraceptive issue off the table.
At Thanksgiving, Americans ‘united in debt we owe to God,’ say prelates
"It is a grateful tradition people of many faiths have honored since even before our country's founding," said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president, and Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, vice president.