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Brownsville diocesan agency ready to help asylum-seekers entering U.S.
Just as the coldest weather in more than 30 years brought new misery to asylum-seekers stranded in a refugee camp in Mexico, an end to their plight may be in sight.
Priest plans to auction coveted baseball cards to aid low-income students
A baseball card collection worth thousands of dollars was a split second away from ...
Bishops: If passed, Equality Act will 'discriminate against people of faith'
If the House of Representatives passes the Equality Act, its mandates will "discriminate against people of faith" by adversely affecting charities and their beneficiaries, conscience rights, women’s sports, "and sex-specific facilities," said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops' committees.
Family Rosary's annual 'Try Prayer! It Works!' contest accepting entries
"Try Prayer! It Works!" – an annual contest – is now accepting entries from children in kindergarten
Pope, Holocaust survivor talk about the importance of remembering
A month after reading an interview in the Vatican newspaper with Edith Bruck, an author and Holocaust survivor, Pope Francis decided to pay her a visit at her home in the center of Rome.
Pope advances causes of nuns who died helping during Ebola outbreak
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause of one of Princes William and Harry's 19th-century ancestors as well as the causes of three Italian nuns who died from the Ebola virus while ministering to patients in Congo.
Pope marks 90th anniversary of Divine Mercy apparition
Marking the 90th anniversary of the apparition of Jesus to St. Faustina Kowalska, Pope Francis wrote a letter to Catholics in Poland expressing his hope that Christ's message of divine mercy would remain "alive in the hearts of the faithful."
Passionist priest, relative of English princes, takes step closer to sainthood
A priest related to Princes William and Harry took a major step closer to sainthood when Pope Francis declared him venerable.
New document offers ways to foster Catholic-Methodist relationships
A two-part publication emerging from the most recent round of dialogue between representatives of the U.S. Catholic bishops and the United Methodist Church offers practical helps and words of inspiration for day-to-day lives.
Vatican releases program for papal trip to Iraq
Pope Francis said his upcoming trip to Iraq would be an important sign of his concern for the region's Christians, but also an important opportunity to build fraternity through interreligious dialogue.
Ashes mark beginning, not end, of new life, says theologian
Ash Wednesday and Lent are a time to recall that new life emerges from the ashes and that spring blossoms from the bleakness of winter, said a noted Italian theologian....
Franciscans mark 600th year of pope establishing Commissaries of Holy Land
Before he became guardian and commissary of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington in 2013, Franciscan Father Larry Dunham made his first trip to the Holy Land...
Blanket DNR orders for Britons with learning disabilities called immoral
Medical orders against attempting to resuscitate patients with learning disabilities during the latest COVID-19 lockdown in the U.K. are "wholly unacceptable and immoral"...
Pew center releases ‘Faith Among Black Americans’ poll
The "Faith Among Black Americans" report found that 9% of Generation Z reported being Catholic, a higher percentage than...
Full of historic sites, Iraq important to understanding Christianity
Pope Francis hopes to embark on the first-ever papal visit to the biblical land of Iraq in early March in a spiritual pilgrimage of sorts to the place known in Arabic as the "land of the two rivers" – the mighty Tigris and Euphrates – and once renowned as Mesopotamia, …
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