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Funeral rites set for Gloria Salvatore of Somerton
The wife of the late state Senator Hank Salvatore died Oct. 24 and will be buried after her funeral Mass at St. Christopher Church in Northeast Philadelphia.
‘Bludgeoned’ by all sides, family needs church for help, pope says
The family is under attack now more than ever because of today's culture of division that wants to break from and be free of all everlasting bonds and forms of solidarity, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis says Pope Benedict was a ‘great pope’
Retired Pope Benedict XVI is a perfect example of how intellectual knowledge and scientific curiosity do not lead a person further from God, but can strengthen their love for God and for his human creatures, Pope Francis said.
Church must reach out to gays, divorced, Philippine bishop says
The church must widen its reach to gays and divorced Catholics, said the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines.
EPA’s Clean Power Plan draws interest from Catholic organizations
About the time in June that the Environmental Protection Agency introduced a plan to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, Martha Huckabay and her neighbors in St. Rose, Louisiana, began to smell a foul odor from a chemical storage facility near their home.
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.”
Faith, kindness of slain U.S. journalist recalled at Mass
Close to 1,000 of slain journalist James Foley's closest friends and family gathered at a church in New Hampshire this week for a memorial Mass to celebrate the man murdered by Islamic State extremists Aug. 19 in Syria.
Nun’s murderer says family’s forgiveness gave him ‘new life’
The man who served a prison term for the 1995 murder of a Franciscan Clarist nun said he experienced a "rebirth" during a visit by Sister Selmy, the younger sister of slain Sister Rani Maria Vattalil, while he was in prison.
West Chester priest arrested on child pornography charges
Father Mark J. Haynes, 55, an archdiocesan priest and parochial vicar at SS. Simon and Jude Parish in West Chester, was arrested Wednesday night. No allegations of sexual abuse of a minor had been lodged against him, nor were there prior indications he was involved with child pornography.
Former secretary says St. John Paul II shared his flock’s sorrows, joys
On his first visit to a Washington shrine dedicated to the man he worked under for nearly 10 years, the former secretary to St. Pope John Paul II said he was "deeply impressed" by the tribute and could feel the late pontiff's presence within the building.