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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.”
Pope to priests: Exhaustion is part of ministry
Priestly ministry is hard, sometimes lonely work, but priests must draw strength from their flock and their love for God, Pope Francis said during the chrism Mass April 2 in Rome.
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.”
Blue Mass to be celebrated in Yardley
St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish welcomes all first responders -- police officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians -- to a special Mass April 17.
Catholic, Orthodox churches moving closer to unity
Reconciliation between the Catholic and Orthodox churches is urgently needed, said Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who suggested joint social-justice action.
Pope to formally proclaim holy year in front of basilica’s Holy Door
Portions of the document will be read in front of the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica April 11, the Vatican announced. The Holy Door, usually bricked up, is opened at the beginning of a jubilee year.
Ten years after his death, St. John Paul’s example lives on, pope says
Speaking to pilgrims at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square April 1, the pope highlighted the spiritual legacy of his predecessor, whom he canonized together with St. John XXIII in April 2014.
Christian leaders call for end to ‘profound evil’ of the death penalty
"Torture and execution is always a profound evil, made even more abhorrent when sanctioned by the government in the name of justice when other means of protecting society are available," said the statement released March 31.
Faith leaders call on U.S. to halt ‘inhumane’ family detention policy
Five Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran bishops traveled to the Dilley Detention Center in south Texas March 27 and visited with families -- young mothers with children from Central America -- who are being detained there.
With Armenian Catholics, pope will declare new ‘doctor of church’
Pope Francis formally will proclaim a 10th-century Armenian monk as a doctor of the church when he celebrates a liturgy April 12 with leaders and faithful of the Armenian Catholic Church.