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WASHINGTON — Several Catholic hospitals, a Catholic university and Mercy sisters who run health clinics filed a challenge to a federal mandate for performing gender transition procedures with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit Dec. 15.
OWENSBORO, Ky. — Early in the morning Dec. 11, following a tornado warning for Daviess County the night before, Owensboro Bishop William F. Medley found that his cellphone service was down — and that Gov. Andy Beshear had made an announcement about lives lost in a sudden tragedy.
A flame of light from the grotto in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity is making its way around the world, including across the United States.
Four years ago, in a case from Missouri, a majority of justices of the Supreme Court agreed that a Lutheran church that operated a day school was entitled to funding from a state program for upgrading playgrounds in the interests of child safety.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis established a new Vatican foundation that will promote initiatives based on the principles set out in his encyclical "Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship."
Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará Sister Mary Handmaid of the Lord of the Arlington diocese renewed her one-year temporary vows Nov. 1 in a ceremony at Holy Comforter/St. Cyprian Church in Washington. Her next vow will be for three years, followed by her permanent profession.
VATICAN CITY — The absence of any words attributed to St. Joseph in the Gospels speaks volumes about the importance of silence, Pope Francis said.
As I walked toward the front of the classroom, my heart was racing. While I had given talks many times before, there was something different about this one; it was the first time I was to practice preaching a homily for a particularly intimidating audience: other seminarians.
As a first-year seminarian, the logistics of going to speak in a parish for National Vocation Awareness Week was nerve-wracking. Thankfully, God used my fellow seminarians and my seminary formators to assure me that everything would go well, and not surprisingly it did.
Humility, joy and faith
There are a variety of powerful themes that make Advent a season of tremendous grace. I would like to ponder three that stand out in our readings this day: humility, joy and faith.