Archive for August 23, 2015

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Archbishop Cordileone thankful for San Francisco teacher contract agreement

Efforts to promote Catholic culture in the San Francisco archdiocese’s high schools and to agree on a contract acceptable for... Read more

Pope Francis gives the Angelus address in St. Peter's Square August 9, 2015. ?w=200&h=150

By Ann Schneible

Pope calls for peace in Ukraine ahead of Independence Day

On Sunday the Holy Father renewed his appeal for peace in Ukraine as the nation faces ongoing cease-fire violations in... Read more

Pope Francis speaks to the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square on June 15, 2015 before the Angelus. ?w=200&h=150

By Ann Schneible

Pope: When Jesus' words are hard to hear, you need faith to stay

Those who turn away from the “uncomfortable” teaching on Jesus being the Bread of Life, Pope Francis said during his... Read more

Rally held in support of cutting Planned Parenthood funding. ?w=200&h=150

Tens of thousands protest at Planned Parenthood clinics across the country

Hundreds of demonstrations were held outside of Planned Parenthood clinics across the U.S. this weekend with protesters calling on the... Read more

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Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, and Rev. Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Most Holy Trinity Monastery in Arlington, Texas.

Defiant Texas nuns seek restraining order against bishop, Carmelite association

President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry campus on April 23, 2024, in Tampa, Florida.

Biden targets Trump in Florida speech on abortion

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey walks across the campus of St. John's Prep in Danvers, Massachusetts, on April 9, 2024.

Pro-lifers dismayed at Massachusetts pro-abortion governor’s appearances at Catholic school events

The Vatican ambassador to Colombo, Archbishop Brian Udaigwe (third from left) and Sri Lanka's Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith (fourth from left) take part in a remembrance service during the fifth anniversary of the Easter Sunday suicide attacks at St. Anthony Church in Colombo on April 21, 2024.

More than 50,000 sign petition to recognize 171 killed in Sri Lanka attack as martyrs

Archbishop Luis Argüello and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Bishops: Catholic Church in Spain unjustly singled out in plan to address sexual abuse

Over a year after the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey in February 2023, restoration of Aleppo's Church of St. George has been completed.

A year after earthquake, Aleppo’s St. George Church rises again

The Augustine Institute's new facilities in Florissant, Missouri.

‘An unprecedented opportunity’: Augustine Institute announces move to St. Louis 

Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan leads a Eucharistic procession inside a packed Louis Armstrong Stadium in Brooklyn, New York, on April 20, 2024.

PHOTOS From the subway to the sacred: Brooklyn’s breathtaking Eucharistic Revival

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urges ‘massive subsidized day care’ plan to reduce abortion

Orvich said he wanted to share his experience with same sex attraction “so that the Lord might touch hearts and that people repent and try returning to a chaste life."

Redeemed from sexual libertinism, prostitution, and occult, Fran Orvich tells his story

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