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Pray and work: Benedictine uses motto to help people in northern Kenya
This has become his mantra for his time with Kenya's ethnic Daasanach community, one of the smallest tribes in Kenya. More than 10 years into his time with them, he has seen many small changes create good things.
Four local Catholic organizations receive grants
The Community Center at Visitation, St. Gabriel School, St. Martin de Porres School and the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center (PAHRC) got sizable grants from the Catholic Foundation of Greater Philadelphia.
Father Fitzgibbons, an Augustinian turned archdiocesan priest, dies at 73
Father John (Jack) Fitzgibbons was born in Connecticut but raised in St. Denis Parish, Havertown, before entering the Augustinian Order. After switching to Philadelphia, he served at several archdiocesan parishes.
If you love God, care for what he has made, says cardinal
Cardinal Peter Turkson, who drafted the papal document on the environment, said in Ohio that two things God created "are crying to us -- the earth and the way we have abused it, and humanity, part of which is still needy and suffering."
Money laundering probe underway at Vatican
The Vatican office charged with financial oversight called for a civil investigation in August that includes possible insider trading and market manipulation of church funds, a spokesman confirmed.
‘VatiLeaks’ 2015: Books claim strong resistance to pope’s finance reform
Financial wrongdoing at the Vatican, leaked documents and arrests by the Vatican police may make it seem like 2012 all over again, but the serious situation is not the breach of papal privacy that the earlier scandal was.
Diocesan money managers hear of parish turnarounds
More than 325 fiscal professionals in dioceses across North America participated in a conference where they learned the necessity of financial transparency, and how some parishes have turned their red ink into black.
Diego Correa, Catholic musician, composer and vocalist, dies at 51
Only weeks after culminating his long career in liturgical music by leading the Hispanic Papal Choir and serving as a vocal soloist during the papal Mass Sept. 27 in Philadelphia, the native of Puerto Rico died Oct. 23.
Researcher finds something deep, life-changing within nuns’ cloister
A relationship that began a decade ago as a long-term project has, over time, evolved into a project she described as both broader and more profound.
Cardinal, adviser to pope, sees rich, poor responsible to protect earth
"As the pope said, it is not only thinking that the rich have to go to the poor, but how can each one of us, every one of us, take their own co-responsibility because all of us are responsible (for) our common home," Cardinal Rodriguez said.