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Pope names 17 new cardinals from 11 countries, including three from U.S.
Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago, Archbishop Joseph Tobin of Indianapolis and Bishop Kevin Farrell, prefect of the new Vatican office for laity, family and life, will become cardinals Nov. 19, Pope Francis announced.
Hyde Amendment has a bipartisan past but a cloudy future
The amendment does more than bar the federal government from funding abortions through Medicaid -- although not everything pro-lifers may wish it could do -- and with the amendment's 40th anniversary just passed, it may do well to remember how it all came about.
Polish church vows to continue push for stricter abortion controls
Poland's Catholic Church has reiterated support for stricter pro-life controls, after parliamentarians voted down a law that would have sent aborting mothers to jail.
Catholics called to be active in the public square, live faith fearlessly
Followers of Christ "do not walk into the voting booth by themselves, but "do it in him and with him," Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted told those at a Mass celebrated before a legislative seminar on "Catholics in the Public Square."
Entire parish, not just a committee, must offer hospitality, says speaker
There's no doubt Catholic parishes have a lot to learn from their Protestant neighbors about how to throw out the welcome mat for people who perhaps have not darkened the door of a Catholic church in many years, if ever.
Catholic Charities to make affordable housing a priority through 2022
Affordable housing is one of four areas Catholic Charities USA is pledging to work on to identify innovative solutions during the next five years.
Portuguese bishops applaud Guterres nomination as U.N. secretary-general
The Portuguese Bishops Conference praised former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres for his "deep sense of humanity and faith" after he was nominated as United Nations secretary-general.
In modern world, every land is ‘mission land,’ pope says
Pope Francis said the number of those needing to hear the good news of God's love, mercy and offer of salvation is expanding, embracing the "new poor, men and women with Christ's face who ask for help, consolation and hope in the most desperate life situations."
Argentine priest who criticized drug trafficking found dead at his home
Father Viroche, 47, pastor of the Our Lady of the Valley Parish in a locality known as La Florida, had a history of speaking out on security issues and the dangers of drug dealing.
Where policy, religion fail, sports can lift spirits, say speakers
"Sport is the medicine my mother couldn't give me" to counteract the bullying and exclusion growing up in York, Pennsylvania, one Special Olympic champion said.