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Indian cardinal: Syro-Malabar church can teach about family-based parish
Cardinal George Alencherry said Syro-Malabar parishes are divided into family groupings or units of no more than 40 people.
Six families received Gospels from pope at Philadelphia Mass
In addition to sending thousands of copies of the Gospel of Luke, the Vatican is providing 6,000 Syrian families with heating assistance during the upcoming winter.
Survivor of failed abortion testifies at hearing on Planned Parenthood
Melissa Ohden wants Congress "to give a voice to other survivors like me." What Ohden "survived" was a saline abortion at a hospital in Sioux City.
Pope pleas for commutation of Georgia death sentence
Updated - Less than a week after Pope Francis told a joint meeting of Congress that he backs U.S. efforts to abolish the death penalty, his U.S. nuncio Sept. 29 appealed on the pope's behalf to Georgia officials to commute the death sentence of Kelly Gissendaner, scheduled to be executed later that day.
Archbishop visits Congress, White House in push to ease Puerto Rico debt crisis
The crisis has led to school closings, cuts in social services and health care and job layoffs and reductions in employee benefits as Puerto Rico struggles to make payments on the $72 billion in debt the U.S. territory holds.
‘God pulls beauty out of the ashes,’ those struggling with divorce told
A show of hands from those gathered at author Rose Sweet's session at the World Meeting of Families illustrated that she was giving her message to those who needed it.
Protesters at New York gas storage plant arrested while reading encyclical
Their goal Aug. 18 was to stop business as usual at a natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas storage facility operated by Houston-based Crestwood Midstream Partners along the southwest shore of Seneca Lake in New York's picturesque Finger Lakes region.
The cardinal and the pastor urge emphasizing the positive
Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston and evangelical pastor Rick Warren said in their joint keynote speech that joy in family life is among the most powerful tools to take Jesus to others.
Yearning is a grace that propels growth in faith, pope says
"I ask myself, and it would be good for all of us to ask ourselves: 'Am I tranquil, content? Do I need nothing spiritually speaking? Is my yearning extinguished?'" he said, celebrating an early morning Mass Oct. 1, the feast of St. Therese of Lisieux -- one of his favorite saints.
Silence and indifference to migrant crisis lead to complicity, pope says
Jesus' call to welcome the stranger and show mercy is clear, the pope said in a message released at the Vatican Oct. 1.