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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.”
Pope’s advisers begin makeover of Vatican bureaucracy
The C9, a papally appointed group of nine cardinals, met this week with Pope Francis and began to write a document in order to reform the Vatican's organization and church governance.
Fed agency finds subsidized health plans cover elective abortions
Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, head of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-life Activities, said Congress should require full disclosure of abortion coverage and related premiums to Americans purchasing health plans.
Growing secularization seen as weakening place of religion in U.S.
Religious liberty is under aggressive assault on many fronts in a culture increasingly insensitive to rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to U.S. Constitution, according to speakers at a forum in New York.
Morton parish stunned by loss of permanent deacon
Deacon David N. Fosbenner, 69, died last Saturday. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish where he was assigned will miss his good homilies, friendship and commitment to the parish, said its pastor.
Cardinal nixes Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics
In a book coming out just before October's extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, Cardinal George Pell rules out proposed changes to church practice that would allow divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion.
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.”
Seven clergy assignment changes announced
Archbishop Charles Chaput made the following changes in assignments for priests and deacons in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Sisters celebrate religious lives of adventure in service
Sister Rosemary Herron and Sister Rose Bernadette Mulligan reflect on a church culture that is different from that of years ago. As young women they didn’t know what they wanted to do, but found the religious life enjoyable.
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.