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Workers furloughed during shutdown grateful for Catholic Charities’ help
The shutdown caused thousands of federal employees to work without paychecks while many others were furloughed. As the shutdown progressed, people felt the financial burden as they struggled to pay bills and buy basic supplies for their families.
Bishop Fabre moderates archdiocesan listening session against racism
The Feb. 25 gathering at St. Joseph's University, organized in response to the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter "Open Wide Our Hearts," will enable the archdiocese to listen to its members who have been harmed by racism or its effects.
Harming a child must be ‘line in the sand’ for removal, cardinal says
For the Catholic Church, there is a "line in the sand," which can never be crossed, and that is to not allow anyone who harms or would harm a child to exercise public ministry, said Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston.
Shareholder action pushes corporations to address key social issues
In advance of upcoming corporate annual meetings, institutional investors, including religious congregations, have filed 250 shareholder resolutions with 163 companies to address important social concerns such as the opioid epidemic.
For Carroll and Wood girls, defense paves way to finals
In Catholic League girls' basketball semifinals, Archbishop Carroll stopped Bonner-Prendergast and Archbishop Wood upset Neumann-Goretti, thanks to shut-down defense late and clutch free throws.
‘We have failed,’ Indian cardinal tells bishops at Vatican summit
Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India spoke of bishops' accountability, repentance and following God's will on the path ahead for the church regarding responses to the sexual abuse crisis.
Knights of Columbus novena underway to pray for success of Vatican summit
In response to the Vatican's summit on child protection and the clerical sexual abuse crisis, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson and Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, supreme chaplain, urged their brother Knights and their families to set aside time over a nine-day period to say a "Novena for Repentance, Renewal and Rebuilding."
Cardinal Cupich asks for new structure to ensure bishops’ accountability
The Catholic Church needs "new legal structures of accountability" for bishops accused of sexual abuse or of negligence in handling abuse allegations, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago told the Vatican summit on safeguarding.
Experts say Blessed Newman’s vision for education was binding faith, reason
Blessed Newman suggested letting students develop their basic intellectual faculties through the study of medieval subjects such as logic or grammar, and then progress to more specialized forms of knowledge once a unifying foundation has been firmly established.
Cardinal Tobin: New ‘Nostra Aetate’ moment needed from abuse summit
What took place during the Vatican II was "a revolutionary flourishing of a church of synodality, that is, one whose members move together with Christ, along a path guided by the Holy Spirit," Cardinal Tobin said. "I hope we will see this again at the abuse summit."