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Cancer claims freshman basketball player known for ‘determined spirit’
Lauren Hill, a Mount St. Joseph University freshman who gained international attention when she pursued her dream of playing college basketball even as her inoperable brain cancer advanced, died overnight April 10. She was 19.
Jesuit priest, former university leader, lives with inoperable cancer
Jesuit Father John Schlegel lived his own version of Lent this year.
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.”
With help, talented kids of Mount Airy head to prep schools
The intensive, all-day Sophia Program at Holy Cross School not only is improving students’ skills and achievement, it has boosted enrollment in the Catholic school.
Obama and Castro take next steps to normalize U.S.-Cuba ties
An hourlong meeting April 11 marked the first personal encounter between the leaders of the two neighboring countries since 1958.
U.S. deports Salvadoran general linked to civil war atrocities
The U.S. government April 8 deported the retired former director of the Salvadoran national guard from his home in Florida to El Salvador.
With Vatican reorganization, new cardinals head into curia
Pope Francis assigned 15 of the new cardinals he created in February to lead pontifical councils widely expected to be merged into new departments.
Sex abuse commission members meet cardinal over Chilean bishop
Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston and Vatican advisers will discuss with Pope Francis the case of a bishop accused of covering up sexual abuse by a priest.
Pope headed to South America in July, Latin American officials say
Pope Francis is expected to visit Bolivia and Paraguay -- two fast-growing countries but still among the poorest on the continent -- plus Ecuador July 6-12.
Armenian Catholics and Orthodox seek unity their martyrs enjoy
As the Catholic and Armenian churches move closer to full unity, Pope Francis and the Armenian patriarch said their martyrs were already united in heaven.