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Papal ecology: Protecting all God’s creatures, respecting God’s plan
The Catholic Church supports the efforts of scientists to study the causes and effects of climate change and insists governments and businesses must get serious about specific commitments for protecting the environment.
Immigrant bishop, builder, martyr: Telling the story of Blessed Budka
More than a century after he first set foot in North America, the story of a little-known Canadian blessed and martyr of the Soviet regime is starting to come out of the shadows.
Pope’s schedule for Holy Week and Easter
Here is Pope Francis' schedule for Holy Week and Easter
Mother, daughter killed in crash recalled for devotion to faith, family
Yvonne Selke and her daughter, Emily, were two of the three Americans killed in the March 24 crash of an Airbus jet March 24. The identity of the third American has not yet been released.
Honoree calls religious liberty ‘most fundamental freedom in society’
Religious liberty is "the most fundamental freedom in society" and it is at "the very core of the human condition," attorney and scholar Joseph Weiler told an audience at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
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.”
Archbishop: ‘Use energy’ of Selma anniversary to heal today’s divisions
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, in a statement at the end of Mass, urged those in the congregation to "use the energy of this anniversary to finish the work of healing divisions that remain and ending the cycles of violence that grip too many of our communities."
Tunisia archbishop appeals for Western Catholic support
The head of Tunisia's Catholic Church urged Western Catholics not to abandon his country despite fears of further Islamist violence after a bloody terrorist attack on tourists in the famed Bardo National Museum in its capital.
Militias protect South Sudan farmers in church-sponsored farm projects
Much of the world knows there's a war in South Sudan, a bloody feud between two rival politicians and their respective ethnic groups.
Three months after amputation, Trenton bishop to say Palm Sunday Mass
It was just over two weeks following surgery to amputate his lower left leg when Trenton Bishop David M. O'Connell publicly declared his rehabilitation goal.