Archive for April 29, 2016

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By Kevin J. Jones

How will faith-based partners fare under new White House rules?

The Obama administration’s new rule for faith-based partnerships has drawn various reactions: one observer warned they could cause problems for... Read more

Pope Francis meets with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and other participants in the Cellular Horizons conference at the Vatican April 29, 2016. ?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

Pope advocates for 'globalization of empathy' in curing rare diseases

On Friday Pope Francis told participants in a Vatican stem cell summit that a renewed sense of empathy ought to... Read more

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By Elise Harris

At Vatican, Joe Biden calls for worldwide effort to fight cancer

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden went to the Vatican for a summit on regenerative medicine, where he offered praise to... Read more

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Full text: Interview with Robert Spaemann on Amoris Laetitia

Greatly valued as an advisor by Saint John Paul II, a friend of Benedict XVI, and widely held to be... Read more

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Arrests made in alleged terror plot against Vatican, Israeli embassy

Italian police arrested four people and issued arrest warrants for two more on Thursday on suspicion of conspiring with the... Read more

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By Matt Hadro

Stories of ISIS victims are emerging, and they're unbelievably brutal

The stories were graphic, brutal and raw.  Read more

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Pope Francis addresses the faithful at his Wednesday general audience on March 27, 2024.

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Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski of Krakow announced on April 14, 2024, the decision to begin the process of beatification and canonization of Helena Agnieszka Kmiec, a young lay missionary murdered in Bolivia in 2017.

Cause for canonization opened for young Polish lay missionary killed in Bolivia

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Scotland pauses sex-change and puberty-blocker drugs for children

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Ex-Jesuit, alleged abuser Rupnik listed as consultant in 2024 Pontifical Yearbook

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Planned Parenthood reports record number of abortions in latest annual report

Cardinal Wilton Gregory speaks at an interview in Rome on April 11, 2024.

Cardinal Gregory recalls time when Black Catholics could not study in U.S. seminaries

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks during the signing of the ELVIS Act to Protect Voice & Likeness in Age of AI event at Robert’s Western World on March 21, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Tennessee names first English-language Bible translation in U.S. as official state book

A member of New South Wales Forensic Police is seen at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in the Sydney suburb of Wakeley, Australia, on April 16, 2024. Hundreds clashed with police in western Sydney on April 15 after Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed at the altar. New South Wales police have declared the attack a terror event. Police apprehended a 16-year-old in connection with the attack.

‘I forgive whoever has done this’: Australian bishop who survived stabbing speaks out

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Michigan priest resigns amid dispute over school appearance by ‘openly gay’ author 

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House Republicans call for NCAA ban on biological men in women’s sports

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