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Hypoallergenic incense, low-gluten hosts can ease Massgoers’ allergies
Billowing clouds of incense at Mass and the inability to receive Communion can force some Catholics to cover their face or get out of the pew because of allergies and a sensitivity to wheat.
Catholic defense of family means aiding migrant families, bishop says
Migrants are among the poorest, most vulnerable people in the world, and a church committed to defending strong families must be particularly engaged in assisting migrant couples and their children, a U.S. bishop told a Vatican conference.
25 years after fall of communism, some still don’t recognize church role
Czech government officials and former dissidents marking the 25th anniversary of their country's "Velvet Revolution" gathered with church leaders in Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral Nov. 15.
25 years later, the Salvadoran Jesuits’ legacy lives on
The legacy of six murdered Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter lives on in El Salvador.
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.”
Vatican lifts ban on married priests for Eastern Catholics in diaspora
The Vatican has lifted its ban on the ordination of married men to the priesthood in Eastern Catholic churches outside their traditional territories, including in the United States, Canada and Australia.
Pope says defending traditional marriage is matter of ‘human ecology’
Pope Francis called for preserving the family as an institution based on marriage between a man and a woman, which he said is not a political cause but a matter of "human ecology."
Cardinal urges pope to take hot-button issues off table for next synod
A recently reassigned Vatican official has urged Pope Francis to take the issues of Communion for the divorced and remarried, cohabitation and same-sex marriage "off the table" for next year's Synod of Bishops.
Assisted suicide bill rejects God’s design for life, death, says bishop
The state of New Jersey is "now on the road" to legalizing physician-assisted suicide, but "it is an option and a choice that we should never make," said Trenton Bishop David M. O'Connell.
Pope’s visit to city will be ‘a moment unlike any other,’ Archbishop Chaput says
In a statement, Archbishop Charles Chaput said Pope Francis’ presence will bring all of us – Catholic and non-Catholic alike – together in tremendously unifying and healing ways. We will be ready and we will welcome him joyfully with open arms and prayerful hearts!