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Real-life experience can strengthen church teaching, bishops tell synod
When Catholics see couples who are patient, kind, never jealous or rude, they "behold the beauty and simplicity and strength of married love," but the church also must learn to help and to heal those whose dreams for lifelong love have been shattered, said Scottish Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow.
Mixing it up: Synod members turn to metaphor to get message across
Pope Francis may be the universal church's undisputed master of metaphor and analogy, but other members of the Synod of Bishops on the family are showing a willingness to use snappy images to get their points across, too.
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.”
U.S. couple at synod calls for ‘robust, creative’ family programs
Existing diocesan programs and Catholic organizations aimed at helping Catholic families fulfill their vocation clearly are not strong enough to meet modern needs, a Wisconsin couple told the Synod of Bishops.
On sexual and medical ethics, synod fathers speak of ‘graduality’
In their discussions of sexual and medical ethics, participants at the Synod of Bishops on the family are giving emphasis to the concept of "graduality," as a way of thinking about morality that allows for human imperfection without compromising ideals.
Dinner to support vocations to priesthood
The archdiocesan Office for Vocations to Diocesan Priesthood and the Serra Club, District 28, will sponsor “Encouraging the Call to Priesthood Reception and Dinner” on Thursday, Oct. 23 at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.
Ladies first – Daughters of Charity mark 200 years in city
The congregation founded by two saints was the first order of religious sisters, sent by another saint, to minister in Philadelphia. Service to the poor has always been, and remains, a charism of the order.
Life of newly beatified New Jersey sister called ‘recipe for holiness’
More than 2,200 people packed the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark Oct. 4 to celebrate the first beatification liturgy in the United States.
Program offers women regimen to reverse RU-486 abortion in first stages
As soon as Rebekah Chaveste swallowed the first pill of the RU-486 abortion regimen at a Planned Parenthood clinic, she regretted it.
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.”