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Green Bay’s mayor invites Pope Francis to visit Wisconsin city in 2015
GREEN BAY, Wis. (CNS) -- If the National Football League's smallest city can be home to the four-time Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers, why can't it host a visit from Pope Francis?
Statue of Mary coming soon to South Philadelphia street corner
The dream of Sister Paula Bierschmitt, artist and religious, to erect a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe on South Broad Street is nearing fruition. It all started with a mysterious photograph she took of Our Lady's image six years ago.
Atheist group says 9/11 museum shouldn’t display cross-shaped beams
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A 17-foot-tall cross-shaped steel beam that was found in the wreckage two days after 9/11 became an indelible image in the months following the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001.
Cardinal calls to maintain, yet reinterpret, doctrine to help families
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In its approach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, the Catholic Church needs to find a middle ground that does not destroy or abandon doctrine, but offers a "renewed" interpretation of church teaching in order to help those whose marriages have failed, Cardinal Walter Kasper said.
Pope Francis has ‘added new life’ to office he holds, U.S. bishops say
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In his first year as the 265th successor of Peter, Pope Francis "has brought to light new dimensions of the Petrine ministry and added new life to the office he holds," the U.S. bishops' Administrative Committee said March 11.
Catholic officials: Release of kidnapped nuns was answer to prayers
BEIRUIT (CNS) --The release of at least 12 Greek Orthodox nuns who were abducted in Syria in December was an answer to prayers, said regional Catholic officials.
U.N. official lauds church support of migrants, asks for continued help
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The role of the Catholic Church is invaluable in keeping refugees safe, said the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, but his agency and others working with migrants need much, much more.
World Meeting of Families press conference
A press conference at the Philadelphia Archdiocese’s pastoral center March 7 revealed plans, and much excitement, for the World Meeting of Families to be held Sept. 22-27, 2015 in Philadelphia. While Pope Francis’ visit for the meeting is not confirmed, speakers at the press conference and hopeful guests were planning for the visit just the […]
Flash mob will become ‘Mass mob’ at Philadelphia church March 23
Some Catholics might not know what it’s like to experience a full church, fully participating, in the Mass. That is about to change. Everyone is invited to pack St. Francis Xavier Church in Fairmount.
Sister who taught at St. Vincent Homes, Tacony, dies at 93
Sister Dolores Baumgartner, S.S.N.D., who served more than 20 years in the Baltimore area before returning to her native Philadelphia, died in Baltimore. She had been a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 74 years.