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As courts mull ACA, Catholic group calls health care ‘basic human right’
While the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act is in question, the Catholic Health Association voiced its support for the act. It brings health care to 20 million Americans, and eliminating their coverage "is unconscionable," CHA said.
Report claims church leaders long knew about Bransfield accusations
A report said U.S. and Vatican officials had for years received correspondence from parishioners concerned with excessive spending by former West Virginia Bishop Michael Bransfield.
Connecticut bishops urge ‘complete overhaul’ of U.S. immigration policy
The July 10 letter was sparked by the photo showing the bodies of two Salvadorans, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter, Angie Valeria, both of whom drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico to the United States.
Defying labels, Hispanic youths gather joyfully on retreat
The day-long program of the archdiocesan Office for Hispanic Catholics at Holy Innocents Parish drew more than 130 young people who got to know one another through their faith, language and culture.
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.