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MAKING THE GRADE. Maria Rodriguez with her third-grade students at Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary School in Chicago
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Maria Rodriguez is not a religious sister, but she lives and works like one. The 23-year-old San Diego native teaches third grade students in a Chicago Catholic school and lives in a house with other new schoolteachers.Rodriguez and her housemates exchange ideas about their educational ministry, pra
CLUTCH OF CARDINALS. Cardinals discuss reform of the Roman Curia before the consistory on Feb. 14.
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Gerard O’Connell
The establishment of two new congregations—the first for Laity-Family Life, the second for Charity-Justice-Peace, which includes a new office for ecology—were among the proposals for reform of the Roman Curia that were presented to the College of Cardinals on Feb. 12 at the opening sessi
Mary's Lake is seen through trees on Sisters of Loretto property near proposed natural gas liquid pipeline in Kentucky
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Judith Valente
Ever since the days of pioneer homesteaders, the Sisters of Loretto have lived amid the rolling hills of central Kentucky. They taught in rural schools, still operate a corn and soybean farm and offer retreats on their 780 acres of prime agricultural land.The sisters would have liked to continue qui
Suffering in Ukraine
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More than two dozen undocumented students at Catholic colleges sent a letter on Feb. 5 to 79 members of Congress who graduated from Catholic schools, urging them not to cut off funding for the president’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. • Church leaders criticized the arre
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Assisted suicide is legal in only four states currently, but several other jurisdictions are considering legislation on the practice. A California bill resembles the Oregon law approved by voters there in 1994, but it has some significant differences. The California proposal does not include a consc
NEXT STEPS. Peter Saunders, left, and Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M.Cap., at a press conference on Feb. 7.
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Gerard O’Connell
‘The accountability of bishops is a source of great concern” to the 17 members of the Commission for the Protection of Minors, said Cardinal Seán O’Malley, O.F.M.Cap., leader of the Archdiocese of Boston and the president of the body, at a Vatican press briefing on Feb. 7.Marie Co