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From brainy tomes to advocacy: Academy joins anti-trafficking fight
For an international group of researchers and scholars, serving at the pleasure of popes had meant producing lots of papers on important topics. But with Pope Francis, they are moving from publication to advocacy.
Three generations share food and faith under one roof
God and good Italian food sustain the Bernaudo-DeLuca family of Philadelphia's Holy Innocents Parish, especially when family life gets a little too close for comfort.
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.”
Ukrainian Catholic cathedral has shroud replica on permanent display
A trip to see what many Christians believe is Christ's burial cloth is probably out of reach for most people, but for Catholics and others in the United States, there's an alternative: A full-size, Vatican-authorized replica on permanent display in Philadelphia.
Talk explores deep roots of thinking on environment
Long before industrial-strength environmental degradation, two monastic traditions could be said to define the Christian approach to the natural world.
Climate change and pope’s teaching on ecology are focus of talks
A Cabrini College conference last week gave an interreligious overview of perspectives on the environment, in anticipation of Pope Francis' document this summer.
Pope to visit Cuba first before heading to United States in September
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told reporters April 22 that the pope has "received and accepted the invitation from the civil authorities and bishops of Cuba" and has decided to visit the island before going to the United States.
Bishop Braxton frames approach to talking about U.S. racial divide
Building a public address around his pastoral letter on the racial divide in the United States, Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois, asked his audience to imagine themselves in a world where the Catholic Church's imagery and culture is Afro-centric.
St. Joseph’s U names first lay president
Mark Reed, a Philadelphia native and administrator at Fairfield University, becomes the first lay person named to lead St. Joseph's in its 164-year history.
Honduran activists hope pope’s climate encyclical gives them boost
Berta Caceres remembers the day when she and other Lenca indigenous leaders were allowed to return to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, after a court had banned her from the area because she was leading a protest against a hydroelectric dam.