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Aston students learn about healthy eating at home and school
During an activity March 14, seventh-grade students of St. Francis de Sales School in Aston planned and prepared a meal based on recommendations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The students also created informational displays of the nutritional value of the meal.
Young Catholics flock to old church for Mass Mob
The concept was to take stately old St. Francis Xavier Church in Philadelphia and fill it for one Mass (at least) with vibrant, young adults. The idea worked, they agreed.
Cathedral Mass offers prayers, lifts ‘a dark veil’ on clergy sexual abuse
Archbishop Charles Chaput celebrated a healing Mass for victims and their families March 22 at which he asked for forgiveness and apologized for “all that happened in the leadership” of the community.
Ruling to allow same-sex marriage ‘regrettable,’ say Michigan bishops
LANSING, Mich. (CNS) -- A U.S. District Court judge's March 21 ruling that Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional does not change the fact "marriage is and can only ever be a unique relationship solely between one man and one woman," said the state's Catholic bishops.
Cardinal George out of hospital, is receiving antibiotics for infection
CHICAGO (CNS) -- Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George was released from Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood the afternoon of March 21, according to a press release from the archdiocese.
Sex abuse survivor named member of Vatican commission
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, four women -- including a survivor of clerical sex abuse -- two Jesuit priests and an Italian lawyer are the first members of the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. It will help define the tasks of the commission and identify other potential members.
Jokes, quips, wisecracks: John XXIII lived with keen sense of humor
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Blessed John XXIII, who will be made a saint April 27, is remembered by many for his warmth, simplicity, social conscience and sense of humor.
Beauty, sacredness of human life are seen in its fragility, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The fragility of human life is part of its beauty and is something people only really learn by being close to, sharing with and caring for those who are suffering, Pope Francis said.
Catholic college remembers legacy of long-serving religious sister
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Sister Mary George O'Reilly, alumna and former president of Rosemont College in Pennsylvania, always wanted to help her school, even in hospice.
Pope appoints British canon law expert to economic oversight council
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis named Msgr. Brian Ferme, a former dean of the School of Canon Law at The Catholic University of America in Washington, to be the new prelate secretary of the Vatican Council for the Economy.