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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.”
St. Katharine award recipient’s rich life has enriched others
After careers as a bullfighter and flight attendant, Carmen Bermudez now runs a successful investment firm. And she gives back: “When you get to the top you have to send the elevator down for others,” she said.
Catholic officials denounce video, actions of alum of Dallas school
Dallas Catholic officials quickly denounced the now infamous viral video that captured University of Oklahoma fraternity members in a racist chant, saying that the action of a recent Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas graduate seen in the video was "vile and repulsive."
Catholics urged to support Middle East Christians on Good Friday
Catholics can "become promoters of dialogue through peace, prayer and sharing of burdens" with Middle East Christians, said Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches.
Heavy lifting for World Meeting of Families begins
With the naming of 15 committees today, the work of preparing for tens of thousands of visitors for the families’ congress and millions for the papal visit kicks into a higher gear.
Salvadorans who knew slain Jesuit speak of him as ‘martyr, saint’
On March 12, 1977, Father Grande was the first priest executed by Salvadoran death squads. The turbulent times preceded the official start of the 1980-1992 Salvadoran civil war that left 70,000 dead and 8,000 missing.
Don’t be bitter or give up; offer world your wisdom, pope tells seniors
Don't pack it in or shift into cruise control, Pope Francis told his fellow seniors.
Templeton winner hopes L’Arche communities ‘may become sign of peace’
Jean Vanier, a Catholic author and theologian who founded L'Arche, an international network of communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together, has won the 2015 Templeton Prize.
Vanier cites St. Therese of Lisieux, Gandhi as spiritual role models
In 1964, when Jean Vanier quietly began what would become an international network, he had "no idea that this would be a revolutionary reality ... that it would grow," he remarked joyfully.
Measures aim to protect religious liberty of child welfare providers
U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, and U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pennsylvania, have introduced companion bills titled the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015.