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Compassion in physician-assisted suicide ‘hollow,’ says L.A. archbishop
After the California Senate voted to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez called it the wrong response to a "public health crisis."
Sister Nirmala Joshi, successor to Blessed Teresa, dies at 81
"She indeed carried forward the legacy of Mother Teresa, a legacy of love and service to the poorest of the poor through her nuns all around the world," said Archbishop Thomas D'Souza of Kolkata, where the order's global headquarters is based.
‘Become who you receive’ in the Eucharist, Bishop Lynch tells congress
Worshipping Jesus present in the Eucharist is enriched when people move from adoration to action, a Florida bishop told tens of thousands of attendees at the 20th annual Eucharistic Congress in the Atlanta Archdiocese.
European bishops call on EU to welcome migrants fleeing war, poverty
French, German and Italian bishops have issued formal statements in response to a crisis that has seen more than 100,000 migrants, many of them refugees from wars in Syria and Eritrea, cross into Italy, Greece and Malta from North Africa and Turkey.
European practice on migrants is contradictory, Vatican official says
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi called on European leaders to consider a more farsighted approach to the growing challenge migrants pose to the continent.
Pope’s encyclical called ‘a watershed moment for church, humanity’
"It's time for the church to be bold -- to speak about major issues -- and to achieve a new level of relevance in people's lives," Archbishop Cupich said.
Outline for synod on family calls for wide look at trials families face
The working document for this fall's Synod of Bishops on the family called for expanded discussion and pastoral solutions to challenges such as how economic disparity and environmental degradation affect families as well as the impact of infertility, aging and disability.
Synod working document expands scope of family issues, pastoral needs
The working document, intended to guide discussions at the Synod of Bishops on the family in October, included a much wider array of issues affecting the family than were in the final document released after the extraordinary synod last year.
New York Catholic church feels impact of massive manhunt for escapees
Fewer people were filling the pews at St. James Church in the Plattsburgh hamlet of Cadyville after two convicted killers escaped June 6 from the Clinton Correctional Facility.
Ukrainians displaced by fighting tell USCCB delegation their concerns
Young Artem is about to turn a year old, but all he has known in his short life is upheaval. He was 3 weeks old when his mother, Iryna, and two siblings had to leave Horlivka, 28 miles from rebel-controlled Donetsk, because of the armed conflict that erupted in eastern Ukraine.