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Slain French priest was attack on ‘all of us,’ English imam says
Father Jacques Hamel's gruesome murder in northern France July 26 -- by men allied with the Islamic State -- prompted sorrow and outrage from Muslim leaders and signs of solidarity with Catholics.
Superhero cape project brings joy to young patients
The eighth graders at a Catholic school in Baton Rouge made capes for sick children, including a 4-year-old undergoing leukemia treatments who ran up and down the hospital's halls with her cape.
Bishop tours flood-wracked West Virginia town trying to recover
Residents of a town ravaged by floods in June showed Bishop Michael Bransfield how they are rebuilding their homes. The faith community is addressing the lack of basic necessities and other resources.
Teach your elders well: Pope calls youths to be models for adults
At World Youth Day July 30, Pope Francis asked young people to show adults how to "live with diversity, in dialogue, to experience multiculturalism not as a threat but an opportunity." Christians should watch their tongues and their texting fingers, he said.
Pope Francis urges World Youth Day volunteers to be ‘hope of the future’
Departing from World Youth Day in Poland, the pope thanked more than 15,000 organizers and urged young people "to be courageous, not fearful." The next WYD event will be in Panama in 2019.
Don’t equate Islam with violence, pope says
At a press conference during his flight back to Rome, Pope Francis said violence exists in all religions, including Catholicism, and it cannot be pinned to one single religion.
Charges against Planned Parenthood video creators dropped
A Texas district attorney cleared David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt who created a series of undercover videos last year alleging Planned Parenthood affiliate officials discussed selling fetal tissue and organs.
Learning of homelessness at the library — not by books, but by men
Some men who used to live on Philadelphia's streets, including the Ben Franklin Parkway, spoke July 26 at a Project HOME forum at the Free Library on that very street. They described the hope in their lives today.
Foregoing a speech, Pope Francis honors Holocaust victims in silence, prayer
Sitting with head bowed and eyes closed, Pope Francis arrived July 29 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp, an area now blanketed by green fields but a site of one of the worst atrocities in human history.
Pro-life Democratic governor’s family, Catholic faith motivate his politics
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards received an award July 27 named for former Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey, once derided by national Democrats. “I am a proud Democrat and very proudly pro-life,” Edwards said in Philadelphia.