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Priest: Child’s funeral brings mourners to ‘intersection of pain, anger’
The execution-style murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was not what God wanted to happen, Father Michael Pfleger said at Tyshawn's funeral Nov. 10.
Vatican advance team, in Mexico, visits border city of Juarez
The Vatican's papal planning team, along with representatives of the Mexican government, visited in preparation for a possible trip, which would include encounters with the community, priests and seminarians and perhaps a prison visit in a lockup previously considered the worst in Latin America.
For 50 years, North American dialogue plants seed of Catholic-Orthodox unity
Fifty years ago, a group of American Catholic and Orthodox clergy and theologians undertook an unprecedented step under the auspices of their respective churches toward better understanding and, it was hoped, eventual unity. But the participants representing the churches never saw each other.
Evangelization congregation denies mismanaging property
The congregation released a statement Nov. 11 after several news reports claimed that Vatican-owned apartments were rented far below market value and that several of those owned by the congregation were rented at nominal rates to Italian politicians, entertainers and relatives of Vatican employees.
Author, whose husband shot 10 Amish kids, speaks on forgiveness
Marie Monville, author of a book on the West Nickel Mines School shooting, told 400 people at St. Maria Goretti Parish in Hatfield about the forgiveness offered by the Amish community, and the grace of God, in the tragedy's aftermath.
Chester parish holds Mercy Day with area youth ministry
More than 35 students in seventh to 12th grades in Delaware County took part in a day of prayer and community service Nov. 7 at St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Chester.
Bucks County school dedicates new Pre-K Center
St. Katharine Drexel Regional Catholic School in Holland held a Nov. 6 blessing of its new facility in honor of Father William F. McGeown, late pastor of Assumption B.V.M. Parish in Feasterville.
Gesu School symposium looks at violence in the media
Panelists provided insights and expertise on how schools can help students become smart consumers of news, especially as they grapple with the psychological effects of exposure to tragic and graphic news.
A family that doesn’t eat together is ‘hardly a family,’ pope says
"When children at the dinner table are glued to the computer, or the telephone and do not listen to one another, they are not a family, they are retired," the pope said Nov. 11 during his weekly general audience.
New Jersey Catholic hospitals worry they’ll be left out of new alliance
In September, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey unveiled the OMNIA health alliance, a collaboration with a number of large health systems to change how care is provided and reimbursed.