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French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, an experienced diplomat and head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, died at the age of 75 in Hartford, Conn., where he was receiving medical treatment.
For Americans on both sides of social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the Supreme Court has created a crucial moment.
In less than 48 hours, a group of Catholic bishops saw the faces of triumph and relief from migrants who had been recently released by immigration authorities, but ended their two-day journey to the border with a more "somber" experience, visiting detained migrant children living temporarily within the walls of a converted Walmart.
Pope Francis has named a lay Italian journalist with decades of experience in print, radio and television broadcasting to head the Vatican's Secretariat for Communication.
Over the years, the parish has built 20 homes in poverty-stricken Appalachia.
Each year, Americans gather in prayer and gratitude because nearly two and a half centuries ago, men and women sacrificed everything to establish freedom from tyranny in this great land. Since then, many more men and women have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the rights given by God and enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. While the years have passed, our national appreciation for the virtues of liberty and justice has remained steadfast and resolute.
Bishop Burbidge is pleased to appoint Very Reverend Michael Dobbins, V.F., Pastor, St. John Bosco Church, Woodstock, to be the Dean of Deanery IV for a term of 5 years, effective July 1, 2018.
Some had been on the road for weeks, others for days, and some entered looking haggard and sunburned with little more than the clothes they were wearing, some holding the hands of their children as a group of Catholic bishops joined a chorus of hands applauding in welcome.
The Basilica of St. Mary in Alexandria hosted its first Saints Peter and Paul Conference June 30. National author, speaker and writer, Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, presented the topic “Sex, Love and Gender.”
The bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States have for weeks expressed outrage and condemned the government's recent practice of separating children from a parent or a family member if they're caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without legal documentation.
