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Bus service aims to ease parking at train stations
SEPTA train passengers coming to the papal events won't need to rely on parking at the station lots. PopeBus.com will ferry people from 52 park-and-ride lots to the train stations.
Pope, Council of Cardinals discuss how bishops are chosen
Pope Francis has asked his international Council of Cardinals to study the way the church vets, identifies and appoints bishops around the world, looking particularly at the qualities needed in a bishop today.
He’ll meet the pope, and one wonders, who is luckier?
Gerry Davis and his family will bring up the offertory gifts at a Mass with Pope Francis in Philadelphia. The pope will meet a devout Catholic family man who leads by example, as he was raised.
‘Complex’ trip to Cuba, U.S. will be pope’s longest, spokesman says
Briefing reporters about the trip, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said the plans were "enriched" after Pope Francis agreed to go to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia and, particularly, after the United States and Cuba announced they were moving toward normalizing diplomatic relations.
Lucky few win tickets to New York papal Mass in raffles at parishes
At the intersection of arithmetic and justice, pastors in the Archdiocese of New York are conducting distinctive raffles to distribute the limited tickets allocated to each parish for the Sept. 25 papal Mass at Madison Square Garden.
Pope visits Cuba amid increasing support for end to U.S. embargo
U.S. President Barack Obama, Cuban President Raul Castro and the Vatican have called for a lifting of the embargo, which was first put in place in 1960 and repeatedly strengthened in the years since in response to growing strains between the countries.
Encyclical unites religious, nonreligious voices on climate change
Thousands of people inspired by Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment planned to rally on the Mall the morning that the pope addresses Congress hoping he will acknowledge their work on climate change.
Amid refugee crisis, church agencies on the ground and offering homes
The tens of thousands of would-be Syrian refugees who have flooded European countries this summer have prompted U.S. and international Catholic agencies to respond with both on-the-ground support and longer-term preparations to host them in the United States.
More must be done to help Middle East Christians, say speakers
Tactics they proposed, though, varied, in hope that some combination of them will make Christians feel secure in their homeland.
Missouri bishop to succeed Bishop Finn in Kansas City-St. Joseph
Pope Francis has named Bishop James V. Johnston of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as the new bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph in the same state.