Archive for October 28, 2017

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'Tis the season: Dominican Sisters climb charts with new Christmas album

Among other things, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist have been known to appear on game shows... Read more

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By Kevin J. Jones

Death penalty repeal a growing trend among Republican lawmakers

Republican lawmakers play an increasing role in opposition to the death penalty. Both political principles and, for some, their Catholic... Read more

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By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope to European civil and Church leaders: men and women are different

In a lengthy speech to civil and ecclesiastical leaders of Europe on Saturday, Pope Francis defended the family as being... Read more

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By Elise Harris

Religious freedom, not secularism, key to Europe’s future, Vatican official says

In 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was asked about his faith during a magazine interview.  As Blair began to... Read more

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Archbishop Carlo Vigano.

Wisconsin bishop accuses Archbishop Viganò of ‘public defamation’

Cardinal Angelo De Donatis.

Diocese of Rome shake-up: Pope Francis transfers vicar to Vatican post

Father Ryan Stawaisz.

New film tells inspiring story of young priest who left a lasting impact

“A retreat is a moment of prolonged personal encounter, without distractions, with God, and in God, with oneself," says Father Guillermo Serra.

Why go on a spiritual retreat?

A room at the former hospice facility run by the Delta Hospice Society in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian government in 2020 ended a $1.5 million funding contract with Delta Hospice over the organization’s refusal to implement medical assistance in dying (MAID). Then British Columbian Fraser Health Authority terminated the property lease with Delta Hospice, which shut the facility down. 

Hospice leader in Canada promotes anti-euthanasia film: ‘My life’s work’

View of a pantheon built by the Red Cross to bury the bodies of irregular migrants at the Municipal Cemetery of El Real de Santa Maria, Darien Province, Panama, on March 8, 2023, on the eve of its delivery to Panamanian authorities. The Red Cross constructed the hundred niches pantheon to bury the bodies of irregular migrants who die during their journey through the inhospitable Darien jungle in search of the American dream.

‘Out of Christian charity,’ priests bury migrants who died in Darien jungle

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St. Thomas-Houston university’s new sex and gender program based on ‘Catholic anthropology’  

Former Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton (right) meets with legislators in the Netherlands in 1983.

Thomas Gumbleton, former Detroit auxiliary bishop known for political activism, dies at 94

Discarded Communion hosts were found in the parking lot of St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, after Easter Mass on March 31, 2024.

Communion wafers found discarded in parking lot of West Virginia church after Easter Mass

A person holds a foil while smoking following the decriminalization of all drugs, including fentanyl and meth, in downtown Portland, Oregon, on Jan. 25, 2024. Since hard drugs were decriminalized in Oregon three years ago, there are no arrests, just a fine and a card with a telephone number where the user can get help.

Oregon re-criminalizes hard drugs after ‘overdose rates skyrocketed’

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