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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.”
Archdiocese’s finances are improving, new statements show
The financial health of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia continues to recover, despite a persistent though shrinking deficit. A key measure shows the core operating deficit at $3.1 million for fiscal 2014, down from $4.9 million in fiscal 2013 and $17.6 million in fiscal 2012.
Church protests beating deaths of Christian couple accused of blasphemy
Catholic leaders in Pakistan protested the Nov. 4 beatings and burning of a young Christian couple accused of desecrating the Quran.
Christian Iraqi family waits to find safe passage to the West
The last thing Abu Sabah ever pictured in his life was being homeless and living in a tent in a park somewhere. But that is exactly what he and his family are experiencing in this Christian enclave outside of Irbil, the capital of the Kurdistan area of northern Iraq.
When puppets meet refugees, healing begins for children
Syrian children who have seen their houses bombed and family members killed are using string, glue, socks, beads and other odds and ends to help put their lives back together.
To heart of Europe: Pope expected to talk dignity, jobs, family life
Pope Francis, who has called the Catholic Church to go out to the peripheries and who described himself as coming from "the end of the earth," will visit the heart of European secular and economic power: the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.
Abortion, minimum wage, pot among issues facing voters on Election Day
In midterm elections Nov. 4, voters in Tennessee approved an amendment to the state constitution that will give the Legislature the authority to pass laws regulating the abortion industry.
Stepping onto court a dream come true for student with terminal cancer
Lauren Hill, a freshman at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, described herself in an ESPN interview as the face of pediatric cancer and hopes her own struggle with terminal brain cancer will spur more people to help fund research and find a cure.
Priest among five convicted of bishop’s 2005 slaying in Kenya
A Catholic priest was among five people found guilty and sentenced to death for the 2005 slaying of Italian Bishop Luigi Locati.
Tampa Catholics play role in funding construction of new church in Cuba
A Cuban-American priest helping lead a drive for what may be the first new Catholic church to be erected in Cuba in nearly six decades said his project signals new hope for church expansion in Cuba.