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Catholic Charities expects healthy housing to ease chronic homelessness
Catholic Charities USA is partnering with five diocesan Catholic Charities agencies, local hospitals, housing developers and funders in a plan aiming to reduce chronic homelessness 20 percent by 2024.
French police investigate sexual assault claim against Vatican nuncio
The French newspaper, Le Monde, reported that the diplomat was suspected of having sexually molested a young male employee at the Paris city hall Jan. 17.
Texas locality orders popular Catholic center for migrants to vacate
A group of city commissioners in the border city of McAllen, Texas, voted in mid-February to remove from a building a popular Catholic-administered center run by Sister Norma Pimentel.
Virginia’s two dioceses release lists of clergy credibly accused of abuse
Virginia's two Catholic bishops, Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Richmond Bishop Barry C. Knestout, released lists Feb. 13 of the clergy credibly accused of child sex abuse in their respective dioceses.
Society believes victims, spots sex abuse more than in past
American culture has shifted in how we view sexual trauma, said expert Eileen Dombo, and people are "open to the belief that an adult can harm a child in this way." Still, "child sex abuse is a massively big problem."
Catholics, Muslims bond over weekly lunch at Indianapolis deli
The openness to people of other faiths that Pope Francis modeled during his Feb. 3-5 visit to the United Arab Emirates has been embraced for more than 20 years at a weekly lunch shared by Muslims, Catholics and other Christians at Shapiro's Delicatessen in Indianapolis.
Prominent nun says Polish priests must stop abusing women religious
"Sexual abuse of nuns by clergy has long been a problem in Poland -- and it's a very painful matter," said Ursuline Sister Jolanta Olech, secretary-general of the Warsaw-based Conference of Higher Superiors of Female Religious Orders.
Florida Catholic school’s prayer service marks school shooting anniversary
The student-led event featured the school choir and student council members paying special tribute to the 14 students and three staff members killed on the high school campus last Feb. 14.
College students discuss hopes, concerns after Puerto Rico mission
Fourteen students from Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts, sacrificed a significant portion of their winter break in January to help rebuild the ravaged houses of families who had seen their hearts and lives broken by the widespread damage caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
Territory is life, life is territory: what indigenous want church to know
Church leaders have held more than 40 meetings in the nine Amazonian countries to listen to local people, in preparation for the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon to be held at the Vatican in October.