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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.
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.”
Baltimore Archdiocese marks 225th anniversary with day ‘full of joy’
Catholics from Maryland and beyond packed the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore Nov. 2 for a Mass to celebrate the 225th anniversary of its founding as the first diocese in the United States.
Pope says annulment process should be cheaper and more efficient
"Some procedures are so long and so burdensome ... people give up," Pope Francis said today in Rome. "We will have to see" if the annulment process will be made free of charge, he said, but added, "when the spiritual is attached to an economic interest, this is not from God."
Ban of gender-based abortion passes first vote in British Parliament
British doctors insist aborting baby of girls because of their gender is legal under Britain's 1967 Abortion Act. A new bill prohibiting sex-selective abortions would end the ambiguity by explicitly making them illegal.