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No boring homilies, pope tells new priests at ordination
Priests are called to nourish the faithful, he said, so they must ensure "that your homilies are not boring, that your homilies arrive directly in people's hearts because they flow from your heart, because what you tell them is what you have in your heart."
5,000 join March for Marriage three days before Supreme Court arguments
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called same-sex marriage "the greatest social experiment of our time" and said that "children do not need experiments," but rather the love of a mother and father at the third annual March for Marriage rally supporting traditional marriage on Capitol Hill.
Pope offers prayers for Nepal quake victims
More than 3,600 people have been killed and more than 6,500 others injured after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit a mountainous region near Kathmandu April 25.
World Meeting of Families leader gets top Catholic award
Donna Crilley Farrell, executive director for the upcoming families meeting in Philadelphia, was presented with the Sourin Award by the Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute last week.
Charlotte Catholic church will not host talk by Sister Jeannine Gramick
Sister Jeannine Gramick, censured for her opposition to Catholic Church teaching on homosexuality and marriage, will not be allowed to speak at a Catholic church in Charlotte.
Polish church recalls clergy martyrs 70 years after Dachau liberation
Poland's Catholic Church has urged a fitting tribute to hundreds of its priests who died during World War II at the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
Archbishop credits U.S. armed forces for respecting religious freedom tom
Catholic military chaplains continue to enjoy sufficient freedom and standing to carry out their ministry, the head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services told a group of legal professionals.
Catholics to press nuclear weapons ban at U.N. treaty review conference
It was April 11, 1963, as the Catholic Church was in the midst of the Second Vatican Council, that St. John XXIII issued his landmark social encyclical "Pacem in Terris" ("Peace on Earth") that included a call for a verifiable ban on nuclear weapons.
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.”
Oratory invites young adults for concert
The Philadelphia Oratory in Fairmount will host recording artist Alanna-Marie Boudreau for its spring concert on Saturday, May 2 at St. Francis Xavier Parish Hall.