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SÃO PAULO — As unemployment increases and COVID-19 infections surge in the country, Catholic entities in Brazil are ramping up efforts to feed the increasing number of people going hungry.
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.
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.
NEW YORK — The feature film "The Way Back," a documentary on Father Patrick Peyton, and a Christmas special featuring Dolly Parton were among this year's Christopher Award winners.
VATICAN CITY — The priesthood "is not a career, it is a service," Pope Francis told nine men just before ordaining them to the priesthood for the Diocese of Rome.
For more than 65 years, the Church has observed May 1 as the Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker, established by Pope St. Pius XII in 1955. On this day, we reflect on the example that St. Joseph gave us with his time on earth as well as his intercession from heaven. Because St. Joseph is the patron saint of workers, May 1 also provides the opportunity to deepen our understanding of the meaning and dignity of human work, as well as to take action to contribute to a more just society.
“Can anyone summarize Mike’s homily in one sentence?” So begins the round of “commendations and recommendations” on my just-delivered practice homily from three seminary classmates and a priest formator. Over the course of this academic year, my second here at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, our class is assigned to preach 12 practice homilies. In addition to preparing and delivering homilies for consecutive weeks of Advent and Lent, we receive specific pastoral scenarios, such as preaching in the gym of a Catholic high school on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.
VATICAN CITY — Celebrating his name day, the feast of St. George, Pope Francis was serenaded by hundreds of Rome's most vulnerable residents and the people who assist them.
VATICAN CITY — Sometimes the Catholic Church has "proposed a far too abstract and almost artificial theological ideal of marriage, far removed from the concrete situations and practical possibilities of real families," Pope Francis wrote in his 2016 exhortation, "Amoris Laetitia."
NEW DELHI — An oxygen leak at a government hospital in India has killed 22 COVID-19 patients as the entire country faces a huge shortage of oxygen to support pandemic-hit patients.
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