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Vatican: Bones found at cemetery do not belong to missing woman
The Vatican press office said that the results of a morphological analysis of bones and bone fragments found at an ossuary in a Vatican cemetery concluded that none belonged to Emanuela Orlandi, a young Italian woman who has been missing for more than 30 years.
Rome police chaplain recalls slain officer’s life of service
The murder of 35-year-old officer Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome's Prati district July 26 and the subsequent arrest of two young American men -- Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18 -- sent shockwaves around the country.
Carlson: Release of abuse allegations ‘painful,’ but ‘right thing to do’
As the Archdiocese of St. Louis released a list of names of archdiocesan clergy with substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of a minor July 26, Archbishop Robert J. Carlson acknowledged that seeing the names "will be painful" and publishing them "will not change the past."
U.S. bishops, others, remember Cuba’s Cardinal Ortega
Cardinal Jaime L. Ortega "was an important, and at the same time, controversial man of the church, who played a critical role in gaining 'more spaces' so that the Catholic Church in Cuba could exercise her mission of evangelization within a Marxist nation.
Late bioethicist Daniel Callahan ‘never ceased questioning,’ says Jesuit
Daniel Callahan, who died July 16, just shy of his 89th birthday, co-founded the renowned Hastings Center, the world's first bioethics research institute, with Willard Gaylin in 1969.
Wimbledon champ carried gift from confirmation sponsor to each match
Abbey Forbes, the 18-year-old winner of the junior girls doubles championship at Wimbledon, has kept an inspirational book in her tennis bag at recent competitions and for all seven Wimbledon matches.
Faith Sharing By The Fire
Join us on August 8th at 7pm for a Special Disciples Night. We’ll start with adoration from 7-7:30 in the chapel and then move to the Farm House for some faith sharing and refreshments by the fire pit.
First Saturday Rosary Walk with St. Patrick Parish
Come join the community of St. Patrick Parish in its monthly rosary walk. We’ll begin the day with daily Mass and walk around the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood praying the rosary afterward.
Three Catholic churches close in Old City, West and NE Phila.
Holy Trinity, St. Rose of Lima and Our Lady of Ransom, all of which merged into nearby parishes in recent years and were serving as worship sites, have closed. St. Rose's closure allows for expansion of its Catholic school.