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Challenging questions can be sign of faith, preacher tells pope
"It gives me hope to see how, among the people of God, questions continue to grow and no one is content with the same old answers," Father Ronchi told the retreatants.
After 50 years, rumors of God’s death still greatly exaggerated
It hit like the proverbial ton of bricks: the Time magazine cover story of April 8, 1966 -- Good Friday that year -- asking, "Is God Dead?" The tenor of the times made it a plausible question.
With drought, Ethiopian church feeds kids to keep them in school
Rural Catholic schools are becoming feeding centers during the worst drought in 50 years. Only 1 percent of Ethiopians are Catholic, yet the church is the country's second-largest provider of health and education services.
Auschwitz sets up tour dates just for World Youth Day pilgrims
The museum has set aside July 20-28 and Aug. 1-3 for participants in World Youth Day, which runs July 26-31 in Krakow, about one-and-a-half hours away.
Sister Regina Doyle, teacher and child care minister, dies at 71
The Port Richmond, Philadelphia, native served for 53 years with the Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia and the Harrisburg Diocese.
New vicar sees the beauty of multicultural Catholic Church
Vincentian Father Gregory Semeniuk is the Philadelphia Archdiocese's new head of cultural ministries, a task he sees as blending sacraments and catechesis with social ministry programs.
Rise of AI challenges what it means to be human
The information revolution poses ethical questions that humans are just beginning to raise in concert with rapid developments in artificial intelligence, known as AI, in which machines can "think" on their own.
Denver archbishop leads 1,800 in procession around Planned Parenthood
On the morning of March 5, the procession went seven times around the abortion clinic, essentially surrounding the facility with silent prayer for over an hour.
Philippine cardinal challenges Asians to become church of the poor
Cardinal Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato, Philippines, said Jesus "strikes at the natural upward mobility of humankind ... and goes down to the downtrodden, walks among them, lives with them, takes up their burdens, calls them his friends.
Judge says same-sex marriage ruling doesn’t apply to Puerto Rico
"The court concludes that the fundamental right to marry, as recognized by the Supreme Court in Obergefell, has not been incorporated to the juridical reality of Puerto Rico," concluded the ruling signed by U.S. District Judge Juan M. Perez Gimenez.