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Cardinal Turkson urges graduates to impact troubled world

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The head of the Vatican's justice, peace and human development efforts urged over 700 graduates of the University of Saint Francis to follow the example of their school's namesake and the advice of the pope who shares his name.

5/7/21

DON CLEMMER | Catholic News Service

Addressing effects of slavery calls for looking ahead, panelists say

WASHINGTON — The work of Georgetown University and the Jesuits in reckoning with the history of owning and selling enslaved people may hold lessons for the rest of the Catholic Church and American society, said several panelists at an April 29 discussion at the university.

5/7/21

Patricia Zapor | Catholic News Service

Quintuplets' parents rely on Catholic faith in daily challenges

LANHAM, Md. — When Patricia Eze jokes, "I have a full house," she is not talking about a poker hand. On June 25, 2020, she delivered quintuplets at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md.

5/5/21

Mark Zimmermann | Catholic News Service
Construction workers killed on job in past year remembered in special Mass

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Eighteen construction workers from the Washington, D.C., region who lost their lives on the job during the past year were memorialized April 28 in the first observance in the Archdiocese of Washington of International Workers' Memorial Day.More

5/3/21

Patricia Zapor | Catholic News Service

Wilmington bishop retires; Rockville Centre priest to succeed him

WILMINGTON, Del. — More than two years after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, Bishop William F. Malooly of Wilmington, Delaware, is stepping down.More

4/30/21

Joseph P. Owens | Catholic News Service

Hyde Amendment has long bipartisan history but an uncertain future

WASHINGTON — The Hyde Amendment, born in 1976, has had a fairly long congressional history, but it could be marked for extinction.More

4/29/21

Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service

For 50 years, Origins brought insights on the church to keen readers

CLEVELAND — The Second Vatican Council introduced sweeping changes in the life of the Catholic Church and earnest Catholics were wondering what those changes meant for the church they loved.More

4/26/21

Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service

At 108, Dominican sister says God 'just wants me to hang around'

EAST WILLISTON, N.Y. — To put Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella's extraordinarily long life into historical perspective, consider that Pope Pius X was pontiff and Woodrow Wilson was U.S. president when she was born in 1913.More

4/26/21

GREGORY A. SHEMITZ | Catholic News Service

Biden administration appeals block on transgender health care mandate

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has filed an appeal April 20 of a Jan. 19 federal court's ruling to block an Affordable Care Act provision barring discrimination by health insurers and providers against transgender people.More

4/23/21

Catholic News Service

Research with fetal tissue from elective abortion called 'deeply offensive'

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee April 20 called on the Biden administration to fund research "that does not rely upon body parts taken from innocent children killed through abortion."More

4/22/21

Julie Asher | Catholic News Service

Eight USCCB programs now using online giving platform to receive donations

WASHINGTON — Eight programs administered by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops can now be supported through an online giving platform.More

4/19/21

Catholic News Service

Review: Book explores the ethics of drug use

"How to Feel Good and How Not To: The Ethics of Using Marijuana, Alcohol, Antidepressants and Other Mood-Altering Drugs" by John-Mark L. Miravalle. Sophia Institute Press (Manchester, New Hampshire, 2020). 144 pp., $14.95.More

4/18/21

Patrick T. Brown | Catholic News Service

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