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Feds grant $4.2 million in funds for legal aid to unaccompanied minors
For the first time, federal funding will help pay for unaccompanied minor immigrants to get legal assistance, including through Catholic agencies that will receive a little more than half of $4.2 million in grants for this fiscal year.
Iraqi refugees in Jordan say it will be difficult to return home
Iraqi refugees who fled Islamic State violence and theft of their property in Mosul said it will be difficult to ever return home, despite concerns by the church that more Christians are fleeing their ancient homeland in the Middle East.
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.”
Care continues for residents after Don Guanella Village’s sale
Redevelopment of the Delaware County residential site for men and boys with cognitive and developmental disabilities will accommodate medically fragile men, while care for other former residents continues in community-based homes.
Properties in Chester and Northampton counties sold
A 452-acre site in Northampton has been sold for $5.5 million and a 55-acre portion of St. John Vianney Center in Downingtown has sold for $3.7 million.
Philadelphia Archdiocese sells three properties for $56 million
The finances of the archdiocese took a major step toward good health with the announcement today of agreements of sale for properties at Don Guanella Village in Delaware County, St. John Vianney Center in Chester County and Mary Immaculate Center in Northampton County. Proceeds of the sales will help fund the archdiocese's long-term financial obligations.
Just economic policies respect person’s right to work, pope says
The global economic system exploits regional and national differences in labor costs, taking advantage of the poor and destroying jobs in countries where the rights and dignity of workers enjoy greater protections, Pope Francis said.
Legal proceedings, pastoral outreach both part of annulment process
There's an inherent tension between upholding the indissolubility of sacramental marriage and bringing pastoral care to those whose marriages have failed, according to a canon law professor and ethics professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
Communion for some Catholics should be ‘off the table’ at synod, cardinal says
The highest ranking U.S. bishop at the Vatican says this month's Synod of Bishops on the family should mark the end of a high-level debate over whether to make it easier for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion.
Year of Consecrated Life events to help laity learn more about religious
In an effort to help lay Catholics gain a deeper understanding of religious life, priests, brothers and women religious intend to open their convents, monasteries, abbeys and religious houses to the public one day next February.