Archive for June 2, 2016

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Catholic man sentenced to attend Baptist church services – for real

An Ohio judge sentenced a 23-year old Catholic man to 12 consecutive Baptist Sunday services after an altercation in downtown... Read more

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Christian media in the age of BuzzFeed: ChurchPOP joins EWTN

For two years, the ChurchPOP website has sought to craft faithful, fun content for the social media age. It hopes... Read more

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A new wave of attacks against Catholics in France, Belgium

In recent weeks, Catholics in France and Belgium – countries still recovering from brutal ISIS attacks – have been hit... Read more

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What Pope Francis wants the world's priests to know

Pope Francis spoke candidly to thousands of priests this week during a special retreat for the Year of Mercy. The... Read more

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By Mary Farrow

How the beauty of Bach's music evangelized Japan

Several years ago, a Lutheran theologian and former Japanese newspaper correspondent uncovered an unusual phenomenon in Japan.  Read more

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Pope Francis embraces child writer in a wheelchair

Thirteen-year-old Veronica Cantero Burroni fulfilled a dream on Wednesday, when she got to see Pope Francis, who offered her a... Read more

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French president Emmanuel Macron.

French president to push social media ban for children under 15

Miguel Uribe Turbay, Colombian senator and presidential hopeful; and Cardinal Luis José Rueda, archbishop of Bogotá.

Gravely wounded Colombian presidential hopeful improving; could be miracle, cardinal says

Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile at the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square for Mass on Pentecost Sunday on June 8, 2025.

Charismatic renewal leader confident Pope Leo XIV will affirm movement’s status in Church

Scene of the walled city of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. The oldest governor’s mansion under the American flag, La Fortaleza, is top right.

Bishops in Puerto Rico push back against ICE raids, deportations

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone specifically commissioned the United States’ first Center for Sainthood Studies to foster “a deeper understanding of the processes involved in recognizing the holiness of individuals and their potential for sainthood.”

First-of-its-kind Center for Sainthood Studies launches

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New York on brink of legalizing assisted suicide as advocates urge protection of vulnerable

A general view shows a damaged building at the site where Air India flight 171 crashed in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025.

Pope, Indian bishops mourn crash of airliner that killed hundreds

Catholic school students won the right to play sports and participate in other public school activities in the State College Area School District after a victory in federal court on June 10, 2025.

Pennsylvania Catholic students win lawsuit allowing participation in local district sports

Pope Leo XIV meets with priests of Rome in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Thursday, June 12, 2025.

Rome’s priests look for leadership from their new bishop, Pope Leo XIV

Fertility rose at the end of the Depression and the end of World War II with the Baby Boom, to more than 3.5 births for every woman by 1960 — then plummeted immediately thereafter.

United Nations solution to ‘fertility crisis’ faces criticism

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