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At Honduran airport, church workers welcome migrants deported from U.S.
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (CNS) -- Several times a week, Sister Valdete Wilemann helps scores of deported Hondurans -- 36,300 last year -- walk off a U.S. government plane at the airport here. "If I don't see each migrant as my brother or sister, then God is not my father," she said.
Migrants take lead in Honduran church’s immigration ministries
GOASCORAN, Honduras (CNS) -- This is where immigrants come from, a place where decades of war, corruption, hurricanes and drought have combined to make life untenable for many. And so they have gone away.
World without mothers would be inhumane, lacking tenderness, pope says
Mothers show the world what it means to give oneself generously for others, to respect life and to display tenderness and moral strength even in times of trouble, Pope Francis said.
Catholic Social Services’ Food Cupboard receives major grant
Members of the Order of Malta gave $25,000 to Archbishop Charles Chaput for the purchase of refrigerators and freezers for the Catholic Social Services-run Montgomery County Food Cupboard in Norristown, which fed 35,000 people last year.
I.H.M. sister dies at age 96; spent 78 years in religious life
Sister Jean Dolores Moratti, I.H.M., taught in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the Diocese of Arlington, and served her religious community as a superior.
Dominican sister who worked on retreats dies at 87
Dominican Sister of Peace Catherine Marie Servis, a native of Philadelphia, worked closely with young adult volunteers during her ministry at Dominican-run retreat houses.
Franciscan sister, a teacher for 57 years, dies
Sister Joan Schmal, O.S.F, taught briefly in Allentown before spending most of her ministry teaching in Catholic schools of the Philadelphia Archdiocese. She was once named educator of the year.
Deacon Kretsch dies at 88, after years serving in Norristown area
Deacon Donald J. Kretsch, a retired permanent deacon, ministered at Holy Savior and St. Helena parishes. He once met and prayed with Blessed Mother Teresa.
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.”
College-student group awards Archbishop Chaput for his ministry
Archbishop Charles Chaput received an award for his support of FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, in Nashville, Tenn., last week. Watch two videos from the group's national conference.