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FEED THE HUNGRY. Canned goods at the Helping Hand Outreach Program at the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Washington.
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Seeking to create awareness about poverty in the United States and to stand in solidarity with Pope Francis’ commitment to the poor, Catholic Charities USA has launched a new national campaign. Donna Markham, a Dominican sister, discussed the effort on Sept. 10 in her first address as presiden
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks June 9 during the Catholic Health Association's annual assembly in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
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Religious leaders from different faith traditions urged President Obama in a letter on Sept. 10 to continue to permit government-funded faith groups to employ people with like beliefs. Their request comes less than a month after a coalition of religious and secular organizations sent the president a
INDISSOLUBLE. The sacrament of marriage depicted in St. Isabel Church in Sanibel, Fla.
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Pope Francis’ reformed rules for marriage annulment cases, making the process simpler, quicker and less expensive, respond to calls that bishops from around the world have been making since before the 1980 meeting of the Synod of Bishops on the family convoked by St. John Paul II. With the new
Pope Francis meets with bishops from South Africa at Vatican
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Anthony Egan, S.J.
That such ministries are sinister is obvious. They rely on mass, possibly hypnotic, suggestion, group hysteria and unscrupulous manipulation.
Students tour San Gabriel Mission in early May in San Gabriel, Calif. The fourth-grade California history curriculum looks at the social, political, cultural and economic life of the mission period. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)
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California Catholic leaders plan to revamp church curriculum and museum programs on the California mission system to present more accurately the history, the perspective of California Indians and the missions’ impact on Indian life. The initiative is part of a larger program of the California
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British parliamentarians on Sept. 11 soundly rejected a right-to-die bill that would have allowed people with less than six months to live to end their lives legally. Only 118 members of Parliament voted in favor of the bill; 330 voted against it. The bill had faced strong opposition from vario