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Veterans find help with housing via expanding partnership
Operating Base Cecilia, the Catholic Social Services/government program seeking to end homelessness among veterans, is enhancing its Coatesville facility.
Pope to activists: Defend the earth, demand economic reform
Addressing the World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz July 9, Pope Francis acknowledged he did not have a "recipe" for a perfect economic-social-political system, but he said the problems with the current system are obvious and the Gospel contains principles that can help.
Pope calls on Bolivian priests, religious to remember their roots
"Give thanks for memory," the pope said July 9 in the city of Santa Cruz, alluding to the audience's origins. "Don't forget where you were pulled from. They pulled you from the back of the pack. Don't ever forget that."
Go to the source: Vatican archives help scholars make sense of history
On exam day at the Vatican Secret Archives, student-scholars get handed an obscure medieval manuscript to decipher, transcribe, analyze and hypothesize about its origins and historical context.
Nigerian bishop condemns suicide blast, says youth must be on guard
Bishop Dodo spoke to Catholic News Service by phone July 8, the day after a woman with a baby strapped to her back detonated an IED inside a local government building in Zaria.
Deacon who ‘couldn’t do enough for the Church’ dies at 88
Permanent Deacon James Burns served at St. Eleanor Parish in Collegeville, and did so much that "the Church was his hobby," according to his family.
‘Theology of beauty’ explored at La Salle U
The broader context of the role of beauty in the spiritual life is the focus of a July 12-17 conference open to graduate students and the public. All the evening sessions are free.
South Americans celebrate eucharistic congress, Mass with pope
The Eucharist is a missionary sacrament that calls people to give all they are and have to God, then take his love to the world, Pope Francis said in Bolivia.
I.H.M. sister who served for 71 years dies at age 95
Sister Paul Bernard Blankemeyer taught at St. Aloysius Academy in Bryn Mawr and Annunciation School in Philadelphia.
Sister Helene Joseph Kollar, longtime teacher, dies
The Sister Servant of the Immaculate Heart of Mary taught in the Philadelphia Archdiocese and other dioceses. She was 70.