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Pope, visiting Albania Sept. 21, will meet officials, children
After a quick flight over Italy and the Adriatic Sea, Pope Francis will make an 11-hour visit to Albania Sept. 21, making time to meet with the nation's leaders and bishops, but also spending time with disadvantaged children and other people assisted by Catholic charitable organizations.
Court overturns law requiring hospital privileges for abortion doctors
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans July 29 overturned a 2012 Mississippi law requiring doctors at the state's only abortion clinic to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.
AIDS activists praise progress, warn about lingering danger of HIV
Catholic AIDS activists said they are encouraged by the steady progress being made against HIV, but warned against complacency.
Campaign against human trafficking must focus on victims, speakers say
Estimates of the number of people around the world who are victims of human trafficking are rising, partly because globalization has made it easier to move people and partly because governments, churches and international organizations are better at recognizing the phenomenon, a U.S. government official said.
Ukraine crisis shows the danger of manipulating truth, chaplain says
Propaganda and fear were the sparks that ignited the conflict in eastern Ukraine, a conflict that has become a real war, said a Jesuit military chaplain.
Federal appeals court overturns Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage
Virginia's Catholic bishops said in a July 28 statement that "those with same-sex attractions must be treated with respect and sensitivity," but reaffirmed the Catholic Church's teaching that marriage should be between one man and one woman.
In El Salvador, Americans see firsthand legacy of murdered Jesuits
Standing at the edge of the garden where six Jesuit priests were killed in 1989, Echol Nix is clear about the message he is taking home with him to the United States.
Former major league player shares baseball skills, deep faith at camp
After Anthony Adams received a baseball-bead rosary at Mike Sweeney Catholic Baseball Camp, he posted a photo of it on Instagram. "Like it if you love God and you like my baseball rosary," the 12-year-old wrote.
St. Francis Country House threatened by potential shooter
St. Francis Country House in Darby, Delaware County, was the scene of police activity Wednesday afternoon, July 30, after a Darby man made threats of gun violence at the nursing facility and the adjacent Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital.
Father Bongard named new head of Roman Catholic HS
Father Joseph W. Bongard, a 1977 graduate of the center city archdiocesan high school, will become its new rector and president Aug. 1. He returns to the school he led as rector from 2006 to 2010 before serving as vice rector of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood for the past four years.