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‘Good Is Winning’ social media effort gears up for Pope Francis’ visit
A broad digital media project to coincide with Pope Francis' visit this fall to the United States aims to recruit and interact with young people, particularly those who do not think of themselves as religious.
Frescoes at St. Augustine’s get historic designation
The Philadelphia Historical Commission has recognized the 1848 art in the church rebuilt after riots as the first frescoes to be painted in any American church.
The pope’s ‘staycation’: Correspondence, trip preparation fill his days
With the exception of a July 21 meeting with a group of mayors from around the world and the Sunday recitation of the Angelus, Pope Francis' schedule was cleared of meetings, audiences and public appearances July 13-Aug. 4.
Archbishop reflects on religious liberty challenges after Obergefell
"Marriage, as understood between one man and one woman, is embedded throughout the law," he said, "so to upend that is to produce a sea change in our legal system."
Wisconsin’s new law outlaws non-emergency abortions at or beyond 20 weeks
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker July 20 signed a bill into law that would prohibit all Wisconsin abortions at or beyond the 20-week gestation mark, making an exception only for medical emergencies.
New video released with Planned Parenthood official discussing abortion
Lawmakers and pro-life leaders said the videos document the organization's illicit activities in selling organs and tissue procured in abortions.
Italians of Norristown set to celebrate Marian feast
The M.S.S. Lodge of Norristown will celebrate for the 111th year the feast of their patroness, Maria Santissima del Soccorso di Sciacca, on Sunday, Aug. 16.
Nuns ask court for protection from complying with HHS mandate, fines
The sisters are being asked to choose between adhering to their Catholic faith -- which prohibits them from providing contraceptives -- and continuing to pursue their religious mission of serving the elderly poor, according to Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, mother provincial of the order.
Ukraine churches reject constitutional move on same-sex rights
"These provisions threaten to plunge the Ukrainian state into the abyss of immorality and sin, to destroy the family as the basic social institution and popularize relationships between persons of the same sex which are unnatural for human beings," the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations said in a July 23 letter.
Polish bishops condemn IVF law, warn Catholics to not use process
"As with abortion, Catholics cannot use in vitro -- among other reasons because the cost of the birth of a single human person is the destruction of other unborn children," the bishops' conference said.