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Pope gives coaches game plan for building team spirit, ethical players
The pope's message was presented to participants -- including a local woman from Neumann University -- at an international seminar on the role of coaches as educators.
Exhaustion, no hope: Bishop says life in Syria needs ‘attitude of faith’
Chaldean Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo, Syria, and his people are exhausted. The bishop, who is president of the church's charitable agency, Caritas Syria, left the country for a few days to attend the general assembly of Caritas Internationalis in Rome May 12-17.
Help us ‘go back home,’ displaced Iraqi sister urges U.S. Congress
"We want nothing more than to go back to our lives; we want nothing more than to go home," Sister Diana, a Dominican Sister of St. Catherine of Siena of Mosul, Iraq, told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Israel downplays media flurry over Vatican agreement with Palestine
On May 14, the day after the announcement at the Vatican, the news did not make the front page of morning papers. No official statement had been released from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, although officials told journalists on the condition they not be named that Israel was "disappointed" by the terminology used.
Periphery pope: Bosnia trip aims to build bridges in divided nation
Pope Francis' concern for those suffering on the margins and for small Catholic communities that have kept the faith alive through war or repression will take him to Bosnia-Herzegovina in early June.
Seven men one step away from priestly ordination Saturday
Everyone is invited to attend the Mass of ordination by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on Saturday, May 16 at 10 a.m. in the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. Read about the deacons and see information on their first Masses on Sunday.
Today’s teaching on the family
See the daily excerpt from the preparatory catechesis for the 2015 World Meeting of Families, “Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive.”
Language of love keeps family close, half a world apart
Given a chance, a deaf boy from Indonesia began to flourish in Philadelphia. The latest in CatholicPhilly.com's Faithful Families series reveals the opportunity and the perils of immigration, and one family's determination.
Today’s teaching on the family
See the daily excerpt from the preparatory catechesis for the 2015 World Meeting of Families, “Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive.”
Sirens call priest, religious to scene of train wreck
More police sirens than usual alerted Father Tom Higgins and two St. Joseph Sisters to the Amtrak derailment in their neighborhood, where they comforted victims Tuesday night.