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Federal court orders preliminary relief from HHS mandate for FOCUS
DENVER (CNS) -- The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado issued an order April 23 granting a preliminary injunction on enforcement of the federal contraceptive mandate against the Fellowship of Catholic University Students.
Archbishop says pastoral visit to troops in Afghanistan ‘deeply moving’
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- After returning from a Holy Week pastoral visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said it was "deeply moving" to spend time "with that portion of my flock which is serving the cause of peace and development" in that country.
New Hampshire priest gets four years in prison for felony theft
Msgr. Edward Arsenault pleaded guilty to stealing from his diocese, a Catholic hospital and the estate of a dead priest. He was sentenced to prison and ordered to repay the $185,000 he stole and to pay restitution, totaling about $300,000.
Hearing God’s call in a whisper, and other ways
In the second of a series of profiles of the six men to be ordained priests for the archdiocese on May 17, Deacon Charles Ravert recounts the steps that led him from Mercy Vocational High School and a possible career as a nurse, through a discernment of doubts and finally to the seminary.
African churches work to become more self-reliant for funding
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) -- Although the church in Africa still faces many challenges linked to poverty, it is becoming less dependent on funding from developed countries, say African church leaders.
Women recount the stories of healing through intercession of popes
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- People said Floribeth Mora Diaz was crazy to think Blessed John Paul II interceded with God to heal her brain aneurysm, but if so, "then it is a blessed craziness, because I'm healthy," she told reporters at the Vatican.
500 penitents find pardon and peace from sin at parish service
Booming St. Joseph’s in Downingtown packed in the faithful for a Holy Week penance service held just for the parish, not the deanery or county.
Magazine says California birth considered as miracle for Pope Paul VI
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Paul VI, who led the church between the pontificates of Blesseds John XXIII and John Paul II, may be beatified in October, an Italian Catholic magazine reported.
Vatican: Pope didn’t change church teaching in call to Argentine woman
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Reports that Pope Francis told an Argentine woman civilly married to a divorced man that she can receive Communion "cannot be confirmed as reliable," said Jesuit Father Federico, the Vatican spokesman.
Catholic education is everybody’s ‘task,’ cardinal says in NCEA keynote
PITTSBURGH (CNS) -- Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington told Catholic educators in Pittsburgh for the National Catholic Educational Association's annual convention that "education is the task of all of us."