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By Pauline Hovey
A child’s laughter floats down the hallway of a once unoccupied wing of a Catholic health care facility in El Paso, Texas. Only yesterday this 5-year-old boy clung to his mother’s leg, eyes downcast, unable to respond to my request for his name. Many of the children arrive here at the Loretto-Nazareth Hospitality Site fearful, […]
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With the Virginia General Assembly election Nov. 3, the Virginia Catholic Conference created a voters guide to help identify contested races and engage candidates on issues of concern to Catholics. The guide consists of two parts. One side contains a Virginia map that highlights the 60 contested Senate and House races. The second side provides […]
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By Thomas J. Craughwell
St. Jude as the patron saint of the impossible is an American phenomenon. In Europe, Catholics in desperate straits pray to St. Rita of Cascia. How St. Jude came to be associated with impossible cases is impossible to pin down, but we do know how devotion to St. Jude first spread in the United States. […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Mysterious bruises. Unexplained injuries. Social withdrawal and depression. These are some of the domestic violence warning signs listed in “Women Healing the Wounds,” the National Council of Catholic Women’s new 52-page resource guide on intimate partner abuse released in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. “In the Catholic Church, we celebrate Respect Life in the […]
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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. I am 87 years old, a Catholic all my life, and I have been diagnosed with dementia. My memory is terrible; my wife has to identify even relatives for me by name. How should I handle this problem in confession with a priest? Should I tell him my problem first? I have always used […]
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By Catholic News Service
KOLKATA, India – The Missionaries of Charity will close their adoption centers in India, citing new regulations that would allow nontraditional families to adopt children, reported ucanews.com. Founded by Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, the congregation runs orphanages across India, with 18 of them government-recognized centers that offer children for adoption. But the nuns do not […]
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By Mary Beth Bonacci
A few years ago we had this pope. He was very popular. First pope to travel a lot. Huge crowds everywhere he went. He wrote extensively on marriage, family and human sexuality. His writings, his example and his holiness changed countless lives, including mine. Perhaps you remember him? Handsome guy. Charming Polish accent. His given […]
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By John Garvey
In 1968, there was a popular film entitled “The Shoes of the Fisherman,” about an archbishop from Ukraine – a former political prisoner who is elected pope. On the evening after his election, he sneaks out of the Vatican dressed as a simple priest to explore the city of Rome. He declines to wear the […]
Global
By Nicole Pellicano
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican opened the Gift of Mercy, a shelter for homeless men, just a few hundred yards away from St. Peter’s Square. Housed in a Jesuit-owned building, the shelter was created by and is run with funds from the papal almoner, who has taken a variety of initiatives to assist the homeless […]
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By Catholic News Service
LESBOS, Greece – Greece is bracing for thousands more Syrians and other people to land on Lesbos and other key island crossings from Turkey, as those fleeing conflict remain undeterred by the worsening weather and colder autumn temperatures in their desperate search for safety in Europe. “The waves were rolling fiercely with the salt water […]
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