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Cathedral Basilica sets 40 Hours devotion
The theme of the cathedral parish's annual devotion is preparation for the Year of Mercy. Special Masses, adoration and liturgies are planned for Nov. 29 to Dec. 1.
Youths at national conference ‘get’ the vitality of the church
As 23,000 youths from across the country worshiped together during the closing Mass of the National Catholic Conference in Indianapolis, Leanna Long felt "amazingly overwhelmed" to be in the midst of so many people who shared her faith.
Kentucky teen says Catholic youth conference ‘will change my life’
"I've witnessed the most amazing thing in my life -- 24,000 kids kneeling and staring at the Eucharist," the 15-year-old from the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky, said Nov. 20.
St. Norbert Parish hosts talks on Internet porn
Jason Evert will present “Parenting for Purity” at the Paoli parish on Thursday, Dec. 10. Jason will talk with parents while teens enjoy pizza, then he will talk later with them. Music and benediction will round out the program.
Journalists claim freedom of press at ‘VatiLeaks’ trial
All five people accused of involvement in leaking and publishing confidential documents about Vatican finances were present at the opening of the criminal trial in a Vatican courtroom Nov. 24.
Refugees in Lebanon, facing new reality, get help at Catholic-run clinic
A school principal, a physics teacher and a businessman who simultaneously ran five enterprises were among the 50,000 Iraqi Catholics driven out by ISIS last year to Lebanon, where they now get aid as refugees from a facility of the Good Shepherd Sisters.
Our Lady of Guadalupe shouldn’t be viewed as just a Mexican tradition
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been a religious and cultural hallmark for Mexican Catholics for centuries, but the custom received little attention from Anglo Catholics in the U.S. before the last few decades.
Pope names Vatican official head of U.S. Anglican ordinariate
After consultation with the governing council of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, Pope Francis named Msgr. Steven J. Lopes to be the first bishop of the ordinariate, which serves former Anglicans living in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
Day’s granddaughter urges Catholics to speak out against war, injustice
Dorothy Day's granddaughter Martha Hennessy looks a little like her grandmother with her pulled-back white hair, and although she is soft spoken, she likely sounds just like her activist grandmother, too, when talking about helping the poor and promoting peace.
Some Hondurans seek church help to fight government changes to land
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has launched a new program, "The Time of the South Has Come," and declared the region -- once considered little more than a rocky, drought-prone outpost -- a new "development pole for Central America."