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Neumann-Goretti stays the championship course, wins another baseball title
The Saints topped rival Roman Catholic twice in three days by a combined score of 22-1 to emerge convincingly as this year’s Catholic League champ. It was N-G's third title in four years and fourth in the past six.
Pa. diocese files suit against HHS mandate
The Diocese of Greensburg in western Pennsylvania and Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt filed suit in a U.S. District Court May 27, claiming the regulation known as the HHS mandate infringes on the church’s religious liberty.
Catholic Leadership Institute transitions its own leadership
Founder and longtime board chairman of Wayne-based CLI, Tim Flanagan, is stepping aside for a new chair, Mike Emmi. He is a former leader of technology firms and a member of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Strafford.
Deal to lease archdiocesan cemeteries closes, workers retain jobs
The agreement to lease 13 Catholic cemeteries operated by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia became final May 28. The cemeteries will remain Catholic under the deal with Levittown-based StoneMor Partners. The archdiocese will gain $53 million initially with $36 million more coming over the next 35 years.
Mass on Capitol Hill sends bishops off to lobby on immigration
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As a half-dozen bishops celebrated Mass at a church on Capitol Hill before beginning a day of lobbying members of Congress on immigration reform, the event itself gave a sense of the many layers of effort they were undertaking.
Pentecost marks ‘life-changing power of God’s presence,’ cardinal says
The church's celebration of Pentecost highlights the "life-changing power of God's presence" believers receive through the Holy Spirit, said Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl.
Spain’s ‘Camino’: Walking it takes a month, making a film five years
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The famed 500-mile "Camino" trek from southern France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, takes pilgrims about a month or a bit more, depending on the pace, the pilgrim's fitness, any hurts sustained along the way, sightseeing and the like.
‘God loves you,’ archbishop tells death-row inmates as he confirms them
SALEM, Ore. (CNS) -- Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample confirmed one of Oregon's most infamous prisoners May 28 in a heavily guarded private ceremony in the maximum security prison in Salem.
There’s an app for natural family planning, but experts urge caution
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As new fertility monitoring apps such as Clue and Glow make news, specialists in natural family planning caution that any technological application is only as good as the expertise behind it and the comfort level of its users.
Latino couples, individuals study Catholic teaching on family each week
For more than a year up to 60 Spanish-speaking people have been coming on Monday nights to St. Martin of Tours Church in Northeast Philadelphia to study and pray as a group on St. John Paul II’s letter on the family, “Familiaris Consortio.”