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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."
Dialogue examines Catholic, Anglican ecclesiology and moral discernment
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Understanding the differences in how the Catholic Church and member churches of the Anglican Communion structure authority and exercise it are key to understanding how each body arrives at its teaching and practices on critical issues in ethics and moral theology.
Deportation order seen as justice ‘finally’ served for atrocities
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) -- A deportation order for El Salvador's former defense minister who lives in Florida but presided over an era of atrocities and torture in his own country underscores a new era of U.S. foreign policy, according to one of the lead attorneys who sued the official, retired Gen. Jose Guillermo Garcia, in U.S. District Court in 2002.
Homeless San Francisco man among thousands joining church through RCIA
SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) -- A homeless San Francisco man was among the thousands of Americans who joined the Catholic Church over the Easter weekend through their participation in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.
Making the world safe for innocence
The efforts of the Philadelphia Archdiocese and the church in America at preventing child abuse through training are resulting in communities of adults who are watching out for potential abusers.
Pope’s homilies help Catholics fight the good fight, Jesuit says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' morning homilies represent a rallying cry and "road map" for today's Christians in their daily journey to grow closer to God, said the Jesuit editor of a new collection of the homilies from the pope's early morning Masses.
Teresian Carmelites in India dispatch first group of sisters to U.S.
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A small group of Teresian Carmelites from India are quickly adjusting to their new life in the Diocese of Bismarck, N.D., helping out in the Catholic Indian Mission and teaching at St. Bernard Mission School in Fort Yates.
Bishop: South Sudan has become ‘the place where God weeps’
(CNS) -- South Sudan's civil war has taken a brutal turn, despite appeals from the country's church leaders to stop the violence.