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Catholic groups urge physicians to support AMA code on assisted suicide
UPDATED - Two Catholic organizations are calling on physicians to urge the American Medical Association to maintain its current stance against physician-assisted suicide.
What role are life issues playing in this year’s presidential election?
How prominent a role have life issues -- abortion but also capital punishment and assisted suicide -- really played in the 2016 presidential elections?
Puerto Rican bishops call all voters to be discerning in Nov. 8 election
The bishops made the comments Oct. 6 in a 10-page statement about the election in light of the island's current economic conditions and its "new sociopolitical reality."
Pope: Simple gestures, not superpowers, needed to start a revolution
All it takes is just one person carrying out one simple, loving act of mercy every day to start a revolution and stamp out the "virus of indifference," Pope Francis said.
End ‘inhumane’ hostilities now, rescue civilians in Syria, pope pleads
He asked the cease-fire be "implemented and respected at least for the time needed to allow for the evacuation of civilians, most of all children, who are still trapped under fierce bombings."
Letter asks Obama, Congress to disavow bias claim in commission report
The letter, dated Oct. 7 and released Oct. 12, was signed by 17 religious leaders, including two U.S. Catholic bishops.
Archbishop says special ‘Mass of Pardon’ aims to ‘unleash the Gospel’
The "Mass for Pardon" Oct. 7 at the cathedral is a step on the archdiocese's path to "unleash the Gospel," Archbishop Vigneron explained, saying how the Mass was a necessary step on the road to becoming a "band of joyful missionary disciples."
Msgr. Topper, the nation’s oldest, longest-ordained priest, dies at 104
Remembered for his hard work and humility, Msgr. Topper died in his residence at St. Catherine Laboure Parish in Harrisburg, where he had been living since 1999.
Nun working in Aleppo says families all over city live in fear
Sister Annie Demerjian questioned why Western journalists focused on the plight of people in areas held by rebels and jihadis but seldom those in regions controlled by the government of Bashar Assad.
Albanian church awaits beatification of 38 communist-era martyrs
A priest who was shot for baptizing a child and a religious novice who died after she was tortured in a sack are among 38 Albanians to be beatified as martyrs Nov. 5, doubling the number of Catholics declared blessed from communist rule in Eastern Europe.