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‘Our nation is better’ than to allow infanticide, pro-life chairman says
As Republicans in the U.S. House sought to force a vote on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, pro-life leaders lauded the bill that would offer abortion survivors the same medical care as babies born prematurely.
People of faith seen as key to creating more humane correctional system
Prisons should be places where punishment is the absence of freedom and community, but where "everything else models life on the outside to every degree possible" and prisoners are treated with dignity.
A saint in the family? Sister of Father Bill Atkinson thinks so
Joan Mullen spoke at St. Katherine Parish in Philadelphia about her brother, who despite an accident that left him a quadriplegic, became an Augustinian priest whose cause for sainthood is advancing.
American bishops praise pope’s new letter on concerns of youth
Archbishop Charles Chaput was one of two American bishops who called Pope Francis' new document “a wonderful summons to the church to more vigorously invest in youth and young adults."
Eagle Scout earns his wings helping new moms soar
Alex Capriotti, a junior at Camden Catholic High School in Cherry Hill, N.J., collected 60 tote bags filled with high-quality items needed by the young mothers at St. Vincent's in Tacony.
Papal document addresses challenges of evangelizing in the digital age
While digital communications and social media can be used as a tool of evangelization and a place of dialogue with others, they also can be lonely environments where young people fall prey to humanity's worst vices, Pope Francis wrote.
A perfect fit: Pope describes how to discover one’s vocation
In a newly released document, "Christus Vivit" ("Christ Lives"), Pope Francis said that to discern a vocation, people have to realize it's a calling from a friend, Jesus.
Maryland Day marks special homecoming for 17th-century iron cross
A 17th-century iron cross believed to have been hammered together by a blacksmith on board a voyage from England to the new Maryland colony nearly 400 years ago returned to St. Clement's Island in Southern Maryland.
Pan-yard retreats in Trinidad take the church to the people
Sixteen years ago, surrounded by burgeoning crime and gang violence, a Port-of-Spain parish decided to take that year's Lenten retreat outside of the church walls into a nearby pan-yard.
Church, world need the gifts, enthusiasm of young people, pope says
Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation, "Christus Vivit" ("Christ Lives"), contains the pope's reflections on the 2018 Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment.