Archive for November 4, 2015

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When police need backup, St. Michael sends priests

When Catholic police officer Sharif Said goes out on his beat patrolling the suburbs of Milwaukee, he brings his faith... Read more

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By Ann Schneible

Forgiveness in family has power to rebuild society, Pope says

Delivering his Wednesday general audience address a little more than a week after the close of the Synod on the... Read more

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By Elise Harris

Vatican: Leak of classified docs is illegal, trying to sow confusion

Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi said the recent stealing and leaking of confidential information surrounding Pope Francis' pontificate is illegal,... Read more

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Equality doesn't mean men in the ladies' room, Houston voters say

Houston voters on Tuesday repealed a strict anti-discrimination ordinance by a vote of 61 to 39 percent, following concerns that... Read more

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Catholic Campaign for Human Development spent $11.4 million over its budget

Father José Eduardo de Oliveira e Silva has over 420,000 followers on Instagram and 130,000 on YouTube.

Priest accused of being involved in alleged plot to assassinate president of Brazil

Cardinal Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi during an interview with CNA in Rome on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.

Archbishop of Tokyo: An aging society like Japan’s will not be able to survive

President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, photographed here with Kirk Adams and First Lady Jill Biden, in a photo posted to his X account, Nov. 20, 2024.

Biden awards Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood leader Cecile Richards

Missouri’s bishops are urging the state to forgo executing a Christopher Collings, who was convicted of the 2007 abduction, rape, torture and murder of a 9-year-old girl. Collings is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, 2024.

Missouri bishops urge state to refrain from executing convicted child-killer next month

The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation awards the Ratzinger Prize to Notre Dame theologian Cyril O’Regan and Japanese sculptor Etsurō Sotoo at in a ceremony at the Vatican on Nov. 22, 204.

Prestigious Ratzinger Prize awarded to Notre Dame theologian, Japanese sculptor at Vatican

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Data show abortions dropped by nearly 40% in Iowa after six-week ban

Police are searching for a thief who entered the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street in Manhattan on Nov. 20, 2024, and stole a gold rose that memorializes a priest who perished in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Police search for thief who stole 9/11 memorial gold rose from New York Catholic church

A close-up of the tomb of St. Ceclia at the basilica dedicated to her in Trastevere, Rome, Italy.

PHOTOS: St. Cecilia, martyr and patron saint of music, rests in Roman basilica named for her

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U.S. bishops: Federal ‘gender identity’ rule could block Catholics from government contracts

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