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Krakow, Poland, to host World Youth 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS) -- Krakow, Poland, will be the site of the next World Youth Day, in 2016. Pope Francis made the announcement shortly after celebrating the final Mass of this year's World Youth Day before a crowd of more than 3 million people on Copacabana beach.
Pope tells Brazil’s bishops to speak with simple language, love
RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS) — Acknowledging the Catholic Church’s heavy loss of members in Brazil over recent decades, Pope Francis told the country’s bishops that they must learn to understand and sympathize with the reasons for people’s disaffection and speak to them in a simpler language of beauty, mystery and love. “We need a church […]
Play on Christ’s team, help build up the church, pope tells youths
RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS) — Pope Francis told young people God might have been trying to communicate something in forcing the World Youth Day vigil’s change of venue from a huge field to a long narrow stretch of sand and sea. Addressing as many as 3 million young — and not-so-young — people on Rio’s […]
Malvern Prep searched deep in the heart of Texas for new basketball coach
Malvern Prep’s administrators have received their share of interesting coaching candidates over the years. Especially recently. Impressed by several resumes, one in particular raised some eyebrows – in a good way. After coaching for 12 seasons at Cypress Springs High School outside Houston, Texas, John Harmatuk was ready, willing and able to travel to the northeast to inherit the Friars.
Program informs Catholic educators about anti-Semitism, the Holocaust
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Bill Bayly, a history and religion teacher at St. Vincent Pallotti High School in Laurel, Md., said the future for Catholic and Jewish relations is bright. Bayly was one of 40 Catholic school educators from 24 states who gathered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum July 24 to learn about the history of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and the historical relationship between Jewish and Catholic communities.
Federal judge orders delay in enforcement of Alabama abortion law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CNS) -- A federal judge in Montgomery issued an order July 23 to delay enforcement of a new Alabama law that mandates abortion clinic doctors have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. The law, which was to have gone into effect Aug. 15, also requires abortion clinics to meet the same safety standards as ambulatory care centers.
Anne Wiesenhutter, Catholic school teacher for 40 years, dies at 68
Anne P. Wiesenhutter, 68, of Warwick, formerly of Hatboro, died Saturday, June 29 after a long battle with cancer. She was born July 27, 1944, in Philadelphia, the daughter of Mary and Henry Flood. She married Walter J. Wiesenhutter on Aug. 20, 1966. Anne Wiesenhutter graduated from St. Hubert’s High School, Philadelphia, in 1962. She […]
Beloved Deacon Joseph Cella, active city police sergeant, dies suddenly
Deacon Joseph M. Cella Jr., 56, a permanent deacon assigned to Our Lady of Consolation Parish in the Tacony section of Philadelphia, died suddenly, Tuesday, July 23. He was also a Philadelphia Police sergeant and an investigative supervisor for the Major Crimes Unit. He was planning to retire from the department next year.
Catholic ethicist to head international religious freedom commission
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Robert P. George, a Catholic legal scholar and ethicist who is the McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, has been elected to head the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He was appointed to the bipartisan commission in 2012 by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and is serving his first term as a commissioner.
Agencies address realities of human trafficking among teenage victims
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- With an estimated 27 million people being trafficked around the world for sex and labor throughout the year, according to the State Department, it's not easy to crack down on the lucrative trade in people.