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Theology on Tap unveils spring series
The Northeast Philadelphia event welcomes young adults to a series of four talks in April, which include guest speakers, discussion and casual dining.
Young adults put priests on the hot seats
Father Tom Whittingham gathered with three priest friends who were game to field questions from a crowd of 100, in an event dubbed "Stump the Priest" last week.
Way of Cross takes Jesus’ point of view to help others carry crosses
People following the Stations of the Cross at Rome's Colosseum this year will be guided in an exercise of imagining what Jesus was thinking and feeling along the Via Dolorosa.
Vatican Palm Sunday recalls early Christian martyrs, brave sea captain
The Palm Sunday procession at the foot of an 85-foot-tall Egyptian obelisk in St. Peter's Square recalls the martyrdom of many early Christians and the fast-thinking foresight of an Italian Renaissance sea captain.
Imitate Jesus’ humility and service, pope says at Palm Sunday Mass
On a bright day at the Vatican, 70,000 people joined Pope Francis for Palm Sunday Mass, where he remembered modern-day martyrs and those who quietly care for others and "sacrifice themselves daily," following Jesus.
Life and death justice issues face court, draw faith leaders’ voices
In separate cases the Supreme Court will hear March 30, April 29 and next fall, the justices will consider persistently unsettled angles on criminal sentencing, including death sentences for people with mental disabilities and life sentences for juveniles.
Students at Pennsylvania Catholic school share journey to enter church
Tears of longing fill Jessica Bassili's eyes as she sits in a pew during Mass at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Lebanon. The parishioners around her are lined up to receive holy Communion, and Jessica can only sit and pray. And wait until she can join them.
Assyrian patriarch dies; was promoter of unity, served for 39 years
Catholicos Dinkha IV, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, died March 26 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. A virus infection and pneumonia were cited as the cause of death. He was 79.
World Youth Day 2016 in Poland will offer ‘Message of Mercy’
A new airport, improved road and rail links, a fleet of dream buses and "Youth Bible" are among features projected for the Catholic Church's 14th international celebration of World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, in 2016.
Jerusalem’s Armenians mark genocide in ancestral homeland a century ago
John Ourfali, 77, remembers how as a child he saw an elderly family friend break down and cry whenever he met with Ourfali's parents, unable to speak about what had happened to him and his family in the dark days of what today is known as the Armenian Genocide.