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St. Anne Novena

Daily Novena Services at 3:00 PM and 7:00 pm. Veneration of the Relic of St. Anne after each service. Church is handicapped accessible.

Summer soccer clinics helping refugee youths feel like part of community

Through a new partnership between Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Louisville and the Louisville City Football Club -- a professional soccer club -- refugee youth are finding joy in a familiar past time.

Praising God for gift of creation leads to respect for it, pope says

Human beings are called to praise God for his gift of creation, not be predators out to plunder the earth and all it contains, Pope Francis said.

Pope mourns death of French patient after doctors withhold care

Since being involved in a motorcycle accident in 2008, Vincent Lambert had been variously described as being "minimally conscious" or in a vegetative state.

Vatican discovers empty tombs as it searches for missing woman

UPDATED - A Vatican City State court had ordered the opening of the tombs at the request of the family of Emanuela Orlandi who disappeared in Rome June 22, 1983, at the age of 15. The search of the tombs of a princess and a duchess found no human remains at all.

Church’s historic ties to slavery examined at Independence Day conference

The Archbishop Lyke Conference hosted a workshop that examined the legacy of the Maryland province of Jesuits' sale in 1838 of 272 enslaved men, women and children that helped sustain the future of Georgetown University.

Curia reform: Changing attitudes, not just structures

Pope Francis' plan for the reform of the Roman Curia will change the names of several offices and merge a few of them, but the biggest change it hopes to spark is one of attitude.

CLINIC joins suit against government seeking change in asylum policy

The Catholic Legal Immigration Network joined three other organizations in filing a lawsuit against the federal government over a memo that the groups say changes the rules retroactively for unaccompanied immigrant minors seeking asylum.

Diocese looks to open temporary shelter for migrants in county facility

Catholic Community Services in the Tucson Diocese has reached a tentative agreement with Pima County to turn an unused juvenile detention facility into a temporary shelter for asylum-seekers.

Archbishop Kurtz to begin three months of treatment for cancer

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville said he has been diagnosed with bladder and prostate cancer and will undergo an extended treatment plan.