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Speaker: Technology can provide personal connection church members seek
A steady decline in the number of Christians who go to church doesn't mean Christianity is dying but that church members want a personal connection they aren't finding in church, said the keynote speaker at an Oct. 14 technology summit at Villanova University.
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.”
Court blocks law that had closed most Texas abortion clinics
The Supreme Court Oct. 14 blocked a Texas law that had meant all but seven of the state's abortion clinics were closed because they failed to meet new standards.
At 50, ‘Mass for Shut-ins’ helps homebound feel part of faith community
Fifteen minutes before a recent taping of the "Mass for Shut-ins" television program, Serra Club of Omaha members moved quickly about the WOWT studio in Omaha, each with a specific job.
Office of Catholic Education names associate superintendent
In her new role Theresa Garvin will serve the city schools of the archdiocesan secondary school system, focusing on include curriculum, instruction and assessment.
Archbishop Kurtz hopes synod’s final report will ‘refine and clarify’
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, said he hoped the final report of the Synod of Bishops on the family would improve on the assembly's midterm report in celebrating exemplary families, encouraging missionary outreach and emphasizing that the church's pastoral efforts must be grounded in Scripture and Catholic teaching.
At South Philadelphia parish, their souls glorify the Lord
None of the three speakers who were asked to give public witness to their faith had ever done so before. But like Mary, they agreed to "let it be done" and spoke during three days of rosaries and reflection at St. Paul Parish last week.
Texas nurse with Ebola supported by prayers from her home parish
During an Oct. 13 Mass at Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Fort Worth, the pastor, Father Jim Khoi asked for prayers for Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse who grew up in the parish and is now in the news as the first person known to have contracted the Ebola virus in the United States.
Speaker talks to teens about virtue of chastity, calls purity ‘a gift’
Research shows that people who get married as virgins have a divorce rate about 70 percent lower than couples who don't wait for marriage to have sex, Jason Evert told a recent gathering of Iowa high school students.
‘Responsibility to protect’ must be part of ‘rule of law,’ says nuncio
The Vatican's nuncio to the United Nations called for a broad definition of the term "rule of law" that includes respect, dignity and justice.