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Michael J. O’Loughlin is national correspondent at America and author of Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.
Bishop Robert P. Deeley of Portland, Maine, pictured in a 2012 photo (CNS photo/G regory L. Tracy, The Pilot). 
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“Our continuing participation could result in me advocating for two different, and even contradictory, positions,” Bishop Deeley wrote.
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A new study from The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the actual number of people who died in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria is close to 5,000.
Chilean clerical sex abuse survivors Juan Carlos Cruz and James Hamilton attend a news conference at the Foreign Press Association building in Rome May 2. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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“I saw someone who was caring for someone, not worrying about if we are gay, straight, brown, white.”
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Bishops in Chile announced mass resignations on Friday, May 18, after an emergency summit meeting with Pope Francis.
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Advocates of programs to support non-public schools say that they are implemented at the state level within existing agencies and question the claim by Ms. DeVos that a federal law would lead to more bureaucracy.
Loyola University New Orleans is one of several Catholic colleges facing what they hope are temporary budgetary challenges. (iStock/Gregory Kurpiel)
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All colleges face budget challenges, but Catholic schools must also contend with marketing to an increasingly secular applicant pool.
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Patrick Conroy, S.J., the chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives has sent a letter to Mr. Ryan withdrawing his resignation
 U.S. President Donald Trump prays during the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 8 in Washington. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)
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Cardinal Donald Wuerl will be among a number of faith leaders on hand.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., talks with Heather Reynolds, CEO and president of Catholic Charities Fort Worth, Texas, during a town hall meeting on poverty April 3 at the charity's Fort Worth campus.
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Representative Walter B. Jones of North Carolina said the decision “was made behind closed doors based upon the input of only a few.”
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Archbishop Wilton Gregory says that controversial translations may need to be revisited to fix “problematic” sections that fail to “bring the entire church together.”