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Seminary lecture examines Catholic Church in the Middle East
Mar Bawai Soro, a Chaldean Catholic Bishop, will speak Monday, Oct. 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. Charles Seminary on “The Nestorian Heresy and Islam: Two Trials Confronting the Assyro-Chaldean Church.”
Parity in Catholic League soccer means one of 8 teams could be champs
Soccer fans are attending matches in droves in the highly competitive league, for which playoffs begin today. The top four seeds are favorites, but the bottom four have just as good a chance to win it all.
Gloves come off at 71st annual Al Smith Dinner in New York
When Donald J. Trump stepped over yet another invisible line of the contentious presidential race Oct. 20, many of the 1,500 people at 71st annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation broke historic precedent to boo him.
Can U.S. rejection of private prisons lead to similar move by states?
In August, a federal Justice Department official issued a memo announcing the federal government must stop using privately run, for-profit prisons to house inmates.
For expectant parents, miscarriage can be ‘loss of a dream’
When Kayla suffered a miscarriage around the 11-week mark of her pregnancy, she and her husband were devastated, but determined to honor the life that existed, however briefly, inside of her.
Once Iraq recaptures Mosul, people will still need help, says archbishop
"Where is the possibility of creating, of building bridges of reconciliation among the divided community?" Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda asked.
Bishops to vote for USCCB president, vice president at general assembly
Each office is elected from a slate of 10 candidates who have been nominated by their fellow bishops.
Fighting over liturgy distorts purpose of Mass, papal liturgist says
When a choir director and parish priest differ over liturgical music, the choir should follow in good faith the wishes of the priest for the sake of unity, said the papal liturgist.
Papal summer residence opens to the public for the first time
Pope Francis "wanted this place -- so rich in history and so significant -- to be a gift for the people," Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, said Oct. 20 at the grand opening of the papal apartment.
Christian thinkers call for a politics of ‘localism’
"Any healthy populism has to be grounded in the particular, in the love of one's neighbors, of one's town, of one's community, and it's a defense of that community, of those neighbors, against remote rule," Bill Kauffman explained.