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San Francisco archbishop forms theology teachers’ committee
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is forming a committee of theology teachers from the archdiocesan high schools to expand and adjust the language of proposed statements on Catholic teaching on sexual morality and religious practice to be included in the faculty and staff handbooks of the four archdiocesan high schools.
Latvian church officials: Keep calm and avoid propaganda wars
Catholic officials in Latvia are trying to stay out of the region's ideological war with neighboring Russia.
Texas bishop frames theological call to be ‘with the immigrant’
The faith and social justice considerations of immigration might be viewed theologically with an eye not just toward how migrants change "by being with us," said Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, but also "are we willing to change by being with the immigrant?"
University president sees downsides to free community college
President Obama's plan to offer free tuition to community college at a cost of $60 billion over 10 years might cause an "adverse effect" on enrollment for four-year colleges, said the head of an Iowa Catholic university.
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.”
Patriarchs urge world to solve Syrian crisis
A Melkite patriarch called for unity against actions of the Islamic State, including its capture of up to 400 Assyrian Christians from villages in northeast Syria. "Today the danger is an extremely universal one," he said.
Decisions of a family’s ‘home economics’ are rooted in faith
Read this month’s reflection on the preparatory catechesis for the 2015 World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, this month focusing on raising children in a family of faith.
New home for Detroit Archdiocese brings hope amid changes, transition
Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron said the move from the old chancery to the new downtown home of the Archdiocese of Detroit two blocks away was akin to what Socrates discussed in Plato's dialogues.
Father James Martin and his sister buried on same day
The longtime parochial vicar at Holy Family Parish in Manayunk died one day after his sister, Theresa. Their joint funeral Mass was celebrated today by Bishop Robert Maginnis.
Britain legalizes modifying germ line to fight disease
Britain has become the first country in the world to legalize the genetic modification of the human germ line in an attempt to fight inherited diseases, but Catholic officials oppose the procedures.