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Sainthood causes require full investigation, pope says
Before saints are proposed to Catholics for imitation and veneration, a scrupulous investigation is required, Pope Francis said, without mention of the freeze on the cause of U.S. Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Celebrate Christmas with poor in mind, Ghanaian prelate says
At an ecumenical program in Ghana, Archbishop John Bonaventure Kwofie called for easing "the situation of the abandoned, the marginalized, the forgotten, the sick, the aged, the needy" at Christmas.
Priest, ex-spokesman for 9 Indian dioceses, arrested for fraud
A Catholic priest arrested Dec. 11 in central India will remain in custody after laypeople accused him and two accomplices of duping 377 people in a residential property scheme.
Fire destroys N.J. church; suspected arsonist arrested
James Mayers, a 26-year-old local resident, was arrested at Most Blessed Sacrament Church, in the Newark Archdiocese, where the fire had been set with a cigarette lighter and gasoline.
People’s hearts yearn for God, not possessions, pope says
The Christmas season is a time to reflect on what life is all about, Pope Francis told an international group of performers, whose songs help reawaken the question, "What is it that I am waiting for in my life?"
Fishtown Catholic school’s shutterbugs putting skills on exhibit
The STREAM curriculum of St. Laurentius Catholic School includes a 10-week digital photography course whose upper-grade students showed their work at an exhibit Dec. 3 in the Crane Arts Building.
Our Lady of Guadalupe calls us to change culture, attitudes
At a Dec. 11 vigil Mass in Philadelphia for the beloved Marian feast, more than 1,500 faithful gathered to honor Mary's 16th-century appearance Mexico. Today she "invites us to welcome the stranger," said Bishop Edward Deliman.
Students kept safe in N.J. Catholic school during furious gun battle
Sacred Heart Catholic School in Jersey City reopened Dec. 12, with a heavy police presence outside, two days after gun battle, which killed six, raged at a kosher supermarket across the street from the school.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is ‘mother of us all,’ says Los Angeles archbishop
Mary is the Queen of Heaven and yet as Our Lady of Guadalupe, "she bends down to show herself to a poor man of the people," said Archbishop Jose H. Gomez at midnight Mass for Our Lady's feast in Los Angeles.
Pastor of St. Francis de Sales, West Philadelphia dies at 75
Msgr. Joseph Anderlonis died Dec. 6, just 13 days short of his 50th anniversary as a priest. Bishop Michael Sheridan of Colorado Springs, who studied with Msgr. Anderlonis in Rome, will celebrate the funeral Mass Dec. 14.