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St. Vincent de Paul Society joins local discount stores to help the poor
The Catholic aid organization has partnered with 2nd Avenue Value Stores, with three stores in the region, to offer gift cards that allow people to select items they need with dignity.
EWTN says foundress Mother Angelica remains in ‘delicate’ condition
Members of her religious order, the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration at Our Lady of Angels Monastery in Hanceville, asked for prayers for her.
Death-row experience interweaves lives of priest, man he helped free
When Father Neil Kokoothe first met Joseph D'Ambrosio on Ohio's death row in December 1998, he intended to describe the funeral of the condemned man's mother.
Illinois state budget impasse seen as threat to social services network
In addition to the $25 million it is owed, Catholic Charities, one of the state's largest social service agencies, floats the state more than $2 million each month.
French cardinal under fire for dealings with priest charged with abuse
In a Feb. 14 statement, La Parole Liberee, an association set up to aid victims at Saint-Luc, said 45 victims of the priest had now come forward, adding that the group had filed charges against Cardinal Barbarin for failing to report abuse.
Retired pastor and Air Force chaplain dies at 89
The viewing at St. Joseph Parish in Downingtown will be Tuesday night with the funeral to follow the next morning for Msgr. Robert T. McManus, pastor emeritus of the parish and a retired colonel.
Bishop challenges Catholics to combat ‘ugly tide of anti-Islamic bigotry’
"We are witnessing in the United States a new nativism, which the American Catholic community must reject and label for the religious bigotry which it is," he said in a keynote address delivered Feb. 17 in the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice.
Bishop decries shootings in Michigan, prays for victims
Bishop Paul J. Bradley of Kalamazoo offered prayers at a Mass Feb. 22 for the six people who were killed and two others injured by a gunman. Other western Michigan churches also held memorial services.
Mourners praise life, legacy of Scalia, call his faith ‘remarkable’
Following the Feb. 20 funeral Mass for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, some who attended the funeral shared their profound admiration and fond memories of the late justice.
The deeper his faith, the better public servant Scalia was, says son
Just as many pilgrims are passing through the Holy Door at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in this Year of Mercy, the casket bearing the body of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia entered through the door Feb. 20.