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Agencies warn of Yemen’s health care collapse, famine risk
Yemen's health care system, ravaged by five years of civil war, is collapsing. Famine stalks 24 million people dependent on foreign aid as the country's economy reels from the pandemic.
Teens invited to summer study program, now online
Young men in high school are invited to the 2020 Philadelphia Catholic Scholars Program this July. The week-long program counts as college credit.
Archbishop Perez recalls ministry with priest to be made bishop
When Redemptorist Father Bruce Lewandowski is ordained an auxiliary bishop for Baltimore this August, the archbishop will be there. The two served in Hispanic ministry in Philadelphia.
Retired pope travels to Germany to visit his brother
Retired Pope Benedict XVI, who is 93 years old, traveled to Regensburg, Germany June 18 to visit his ailing older brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, who is 96.
Father John Bradley, former Phila. pastor, dies at 91
After nine years in the U.S. Army and at St. Joseph's College, the North Philadelphia native entered St. Charles Seminary, where he made lifelong priest friends.
Christians, Jews recall key meeting to heal ancient wounds
Participants in a June 11 webinar reflected on an encounter between Pope John XXIII and French historian Jules Isaac that sparked Vatican II reforms on Christian-Jewish relations.
Georgetown forum examines transforming police work
Adopting a "use of force" standard, allowing civil suits against officers, and barring chokeholds and "no knock" raids were among the suggestions for police reform by a panel of police and civil rights activists.
Supreme Court: Law protects LGBT workers from discrimination
Despite interpretations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, "Only the written word is the law, and all persons are entitled to its benefit," Justice Gorsuch wrote in the court's majority opinion.
Detroit archdiocese condemns attacks on Washington archbishop
A fringe organization that bills itself as Catholic made "racist and derogatory" attacks on Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who is Black. "Vile comments" by the group were also opposed in Tennessee.
Decline in confession ‘clogs church’s arteries,’ evangelizer says
Most Catholics, even active ones, rarely (or never) receive the sacrament of reconciliation, leaving pews empty and hearts burdened, according to archdiocesan evangelization director Meghan Cokeley.