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Roman Catholic receiver intends to play for Notre Dame U.
Roman Catholic High School’s Will Fuller will sign his intent to play football at the University of Notre Dame on Wednesday, Feb. 6, Roman Catholic announced Feb. 4. Fuller was rated by Scout.com as the number 40 wide receiver prospect in the nation for the 2013 recruiting class and was assigned a four-star rating. He is Pennsylvania’s number two […]
Pancake breakfast at Holy Redeemer Sisters’ provincialate
The Sisters of the Holy Redeemer will host a pancake breakfast Sunday, March 3, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at their provincialate, 521 Moredon Road in Huntingdon Valley. The breakfast will include raffles, craft tables and baked goods for sale. Tickets are $7 for adults, $4 for children 12 and under, and may be purchased at the […]
St. Donato Parish to merge with Our Lady of Lourdes in West Philadelphia
St. Donato Parish in West Philadelphia will merge with Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, it was announced at weekend Masses Feb. 2-3. St. Donato Church, at 65th and Callowhill streets, will become a worship site for occasional use, according to a statement by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia released Feb. 4. The merger of the parishes, whose churches are located only 1.25 miles from each other, becomes effective Feb. 24.
Ignore ‘prophets of doom’ predicting end of religious life, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI asked nuns, brothers and priests not to listen to the “prophets of doom” who say that consecrated life has no future or that it has no meaning in today’s world. “Do not join the prophets of doom who proclaim the end or the lack of meaning of consecrated […]
Pope calls for protection of life, greater investment in families
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI called for greater investment in families and protecting life. As the Italian Catholic Church marked Day for Life Feb. 3, the pope used his Sunday Angelus address to echo the Italian bishops’ call “to invest in life and the family, also as an effective response” to the current […]
Priest says slain Texas man ‘exact opposite’ of those who took his life
NEDERLAND, Texas (CNS) — A Texas Catholic pastor remembered a former parishioner killed in an attack on an Algerian gas facility as being “a good man to everyone he met.” “Victor Lovelady was the exact opposite of the people who took his life,” Msgr. Dan Malain, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Nederland said […]
Churches, faith groups across nation plan ‘preach-in’ on global warming
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Events that ended with the suffix “-in” were a staple of the late 1960s and early ’70s. But organizers think the time is right for a “preach-in” on the effects of climate change and global warming. Interfaith Power & Light, which is sponsoring the nationwide event Feb. 9-10, has already lined up […]
CRS Rice Bowl readies for Lenten campaign
Catholic Relief Services held its 2013 Rice Bowl kick-off event Jan. 29 at the St. Vincent de Paul Society food cupboard at Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, Darby. Auxiliary Bishop John McIntyre blessed sample rice bowls and Maureen McCullough, CRS regional director, thanked the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for its generous response to the program.
Pro-life Vietnamese offer dignified burial for aborted fetuses
HANOI, Vietnam (CNS) -- In a 160-square-foot hut 10 miles north of Hanoi, Anna Nguyen Thi Nhiem takes aborted fetuses out of a refrigerator and wraps them in white cloth and plastic bags, all the while saying prayers. She places about 20 tiny bodies into urns and buries them in freshly dug graves in the cemetery at Ben Coc sub-parish. "Aborted fetuses are saints and worthy of being interred properly," said Nhiem, a mother of four.
HHS offers new contraceptive insurance options, broadening exemptions
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Exemptions from certain requirements for contraceptive coverage in the Affordable Care Act will be broadened to include many more types of religious institutions and accommodate the needs of self-insured church entities.