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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.”
Archbishop: ‘Use energy’ of Selma anniversary to heal today’s divisions
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, in a statement at the end of Mass, urged those in the congregation to "use the energy of this anniversary to finish the work of healing divisions that remain and ending the cycles of violence that grip too many of our communities."
Tunisia archbishop appeals for Western Catholic support
The head of Tunisia's Catholic Church urged Western Catholics not to abandon his country despite fears of further Islamist violence after a bloody terrorist attack on tourists in the famed Bardo National Museum in its capital.
Militias protect South Sudan farmers in church-sponsored farm projects
Much of the world knows there's a war in South Sudan, a bloody feud between two rival politicians and their respective ethnic groups.
Three months after amputation, Trenton bishop to say Palm Sunday Mass
It was just over two weeks following surgery to amputate his lower left leg when Trenton Bishop David M. O'Connell publicly declared his rehabilitation goal.
Philippine lawmakers pledge to block proposed divorce law
"The proposal to legalize divorce will not pass under my watch," said House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., reported the Asian Catholic news portal ucanews.com.
Catholic schools oppose tax proposal they say threatens their survival
As part of a comprehensive reform of its tax structure, the Puerto Rican government proposes replacing the current sales tax of 7 percent with a value-added system that would amount to a 16 percent tax, which Catholic school officials say would hurt Catholic education particularly, and private education generally, when applied to tuition, lunches, uniforms and textbooks.
English cardinal urges debate on family synod to stay out of the press
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster urged priests to end debating the upcoming synod on the family in the press after more than 450 priests published a letter calling on the Catholic Church to retain the prohibition on divorced and remarried Catholics receiving holy Communion.
Masked gunmen fire on police guarding Catholic church in Pakistan
Two passersby were injured in the crossfire, but no other injuries were reported.
Pope’s visit to Turin will highlight shroud, young people, marginalized
The papal visit June 21-22 also will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of St. John Bosco, a 19th-century priest from the Turin region who was a pioneer in vocational education, worked with poor and abandoned children and founded the Salesians, a religious order specializing in youth work.