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Pope: Priests lacking mercy shouldn’t hear confession; get desk job
Pope Francis calls on priests who hear confessions to remember Jesus's gentle and merciful treatment of sinners. He warns that even clergy must reign in their own temperaments when administering the sacrament of penance..
In parishes, enthusiasm for papal events is rising
Pastors in the archdiocese report parishioners' interest is picking up steam. Parishes are planning viewing parties for those who can't make it to Philadelphia.
Major league draftee, priest-coach find faith on baseball diamond
For those who love baseball, Berwind Park in the small Elk County community of St. Marys is a field of dreams.
Three new auxiliary bishops ordained for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, together with Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich and retired Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sartoris of Los Angeles, ordained Bishops Robert E. Barron, Joseph V. Brennan and David G. O'Connell to the episcopacy Sept. 8 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
Priest offers Mass daily at destroyed West Bank olive orchards
Since hundreds of olive trees were uprooted to make room for a separation barrier through the Cremisan Valley adjacent to this largely Christian village, Father Aktham Hijazin, Annunciation Parish priest, has been celebrating Mass daily behind red-and-white police tape.
Pope addresses Catholics in L.A., Chicago, Texas on ABC special
Pope Francis gave words of affirmation and encouragement to predominantly Hispanic audiences gathered in Los Angeles, Chicago and a small town on the U.S.-Mexico border who had little clue they had been selected for a “virtual audience” with the pope.
Parishes must be like a welcoming family, not private club, pope says
"Churches, parishes, institutions with closed doors must not call themselves a church; they must call themselves museums," he said to applause during his general audience in St. Peter's Square Sept. 9.
Catholic colleges gear up for U.S. papal visit with special programs, volunteering
The colleges located in the three cities where the pope is visiting -- Washington, New York and Philadelphia -- are particularly pulling out the stops by donating their parking spaces, rescheduling classes and sending groups of students as volunteers to help at papal events.
Nuns on the Bus tour seeks to ‘bridge the divides, transform politics’
At a time when Republican presidential candidates compete with one another in their demands for the federal government to spend less on social programs and to rein in illegal immigration, the sisters will carry a significantly different message on their tour.
Israel’s Christian students demonstrate against cuts in school budgets
Chanting slogans, waving banners and signs, and pounding on metal barriers, high school students who have not yet started classes, took the front row in the demonstration.