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Dominican-backed Hope House grows new life in a Detroit neighborhood
"It was sort of like going down," Malone said of the neighborhood when he moved there from Maryland in 2008. "People's houses was raggedy. Then they started fixing up."
California assisted suicide bill appears dead for 2015
A group of Southern California Latino Democratic Assembly members broke ranks with their party to oppose the bill, a move assisted suicide advocates attributed to the intervention of the Catholic Church, specifically Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez.
Papal visit helps dispel idea that Morales wants to destroy church
Catholic officials and observers expressed hope the pope's July 8-10 visit to Bolivia offers the opportunity to turn the page on nearly 10 years of mutual suspicions, public criticisms and the church losing its previously privileged position in a newly approved constitution.
Foundation to award grants to Catholic schools, churches, charities
The Westerman Foundation, based in Edmond, plans to award $1 million in grants to Catholic schools, parishes and charitable organizations and is currently accepting grant applications.
In democracy, all groups must have voice, pope tells Ecuadorean leaders
Saying that having received the keys to the city made him "at home" here, Pope Francis called for inclusiveness, dialogue and mutual respect in civic life in Ecuador and the rest of Latin America.
Educate young to care for others, for the earth, pope tells teachers
"God gives us not only life, he gives us the earth, he gives us all of creation," the pope told an estimated 5,000 educators and students gathered for an outdoor meeting at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.
Death penalty protests bring together families of victims, the executed
On the same day the death of exonerated death-row inmate Glenn Ford in Louisiana made national headlines, a fast and vigil opposing the death penalty began in Washington.
Reservation’s summer camps combine Bible study, Lakota cultural lessons
This camp is run through St. Francis Mission, which is an outreach ministry headed by the Society of Jesus for the 20,000 Sioux people on the Rosebud reservation.
Same-sex votes show society abandoning its heritage, cardinal says
The referendum in Ireland and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on same-sex marriage show Western society is abandoning its Christian legal foundations, said Australian Cardinal George Pell.
Building unity in church, society is key to evangelization, pope says
Catholics will never be effective evangelizers if they are squabbling among themselves, and they cannot show the world how faith in Christ responds to the human yearning for freedom and peace if they are divided, Pope Francis said.