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Haitian minister hopes to reduce cholera spike before rainy season
The surge in December and January, a normally dry time in Haiti, has since subsided, but Dr. Florence Duperval Guillaume, minister of public health and population, expressed concern about future outbreaks and is working with an international task force to prevent their return.
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.”
South Carolina considers pain-capable abortion bill to protect unborn
The measure -- which passed the South Carolina House with a vote of 80-27 and has exceptions to protect the life and health of the mother -- would require that any physician in the state to determine the gestational age of the unborn child post-conception and prohibit any abortion if the determined age was older than 19 weeks. The current ban on abortion in South Carolina is 24 weeks after conception, unless the mother's life is in danger.
State legislatures seek to protect conscience rights in marriage debate
The legislatures of Oklahoma and Utah, respectively, have passed bills aimed at providing access to state marriage benefits to same-sex couples while protecting the rights of clergy and laity to hold to their beliefs about traditional marriage being between one man and one woman.
Cardinal: Pope ‘tells it like it is,’ is clear about church’s message
"This Holy Father has been and will be faithful to the doctrine and teaching of the church," said Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington. "He says it clearly and I guess there are some people who don't like clarity. ... He's not an obfuscator. He tells it like it is, because he wants people to hear it as it truly is."
I.H.M. sisters host open house at motherhouse
The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary invite women during the Year of Consecrated Life to explore the order and get to know the sisters on March 29.
SS. Simon and Jude students’ good works reach across counties
The sixth graders from the West Chester Catholic school visited Cradles to Crayons in Conshohocken and made new pen pals with residents of a retirement home.
Morton student knows where he’s going in geography tourney
Emmett Nama, a student at Our Lady of Angels Regional School in Morton, Delaware County, will compete in the state-level National Geographic Bee March 27.
St. Laurentius Church to be demolished
The church of the former Polish parish in Fishtown, which had been closed for a year because of the danger of collapse, will be torn down at a cost of $1 million. Saving it would have cost millions more, a study showed.
Blood of Naples’ patron liquefies during pope’s visit to cathedral
After Pope Francis blessed the congregation with the reliquary holding the vial, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe of Naples announced, "As a sign that St. Januarius loves the pope, who is Neapolitan like us, the blood is already half liquefied."