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From a far off land, they’re coming to Overbrook
Two young men have traveled 8,000 miles from Sri Lanka to study theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, where they've been welcomed as brothers. They will return to minister at home, and all the seminarians will have learned about another culture.
Ministries to divorced, remarried strive to echo pope’s call for mercy
Divorce is never easy. From the realization that love has failed to feelings of shame and a tendency to assess blame, divorce poses an untidy conundrum for families even when a couple settles on an amicable legal separation.
Southern Africa: AIDS has left families headed by kids, grandparents
With the highest levels of HIV prevalence globally, southern African countries have seen families torn apart by AIDS, with children left to raise younger siblings and sick children left in the care of elderly grandparents.
Retired Sisters of Charity of New York to receive care at Jewish home
Twenty-six Sisters of Charity of New York will soon move into assisted living facilities at Jewish Home Lifecare in the Bronx after a multiyear study conducted by the religious congregation found it was "no longer feasible to continue doing our retirement ministry on our own."
Archbishop presents World Meeting documents, prayer, icon at Vatican
What Philadelphians celebrated two weeks ago in the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, the rest of the world discovered today in Rome, Italy as Archbishop Charles Chaput presented the preparatory catechesis, prayer and iconic image for the 2015 World Meeting of Families to the Pontifical Council for the Family during a press conference at the Holy See’s press office in Rome.
Archbishop Chaput’s remarks at Vatican press conference
After his meeting with officials of the Pontifical Council for the Family in Rome, Archbishop Charles Chaput spoke to the press his hopes for the upcoming 2015 World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.
Catholics stay up all night in Pittsburgh
Eastern-rite and Latin-rite Catholics joined in an all-night prayer vigil Sept. 13-14 at a Byzantine Catholic church in Pittsburgh to celebrate prayerfully their culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse city.
Divorce, migration changing the face of families worldwide, in U.S.
The blended and extended families created by high rates of divorce, remarriage and cohabitation -- and worldwide migration -- have combined to change the view of family as limited to a mother, father and their children.
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.”
At wedding, pope says spouses make each other better men and women
Presiding over the wedding of 20 couples in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated marriage as the union of a man and woman playing complementary roles during their common journey through life.