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In our first reading, from St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, we hear him tell his recent converts to faith in Jesus Christ – and we hear him tell us –“Have no anxiety at all, but in everything by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your ...

Fifty years ago this October, Blessed John XXIII and more than 2,500 bishops and heads ...


San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West, the nation’s fifth-largest health care system, said Jan. 23 it is changing its name to Dignity Health as part of a restructuring that, it says, “will position the organization to succeed in a changing health care ...

WASHINGTON (CNS) – The U.S. bishops and other Catholic groups responded with outrage and concern to the Obama administration’s refusal of repeated requests from Catholic bishops, hospitals, schools and charitable organizations to revise its religious exemption to ...

Book recalls crucial role of intellectuals in Catholic life shar.es/oVHms
Irish priests struggle, feeling tarred by sins of the minority shar.es/oV3Po
Archbishop Wenski: Conscience protections in jeopardy shar.es/oV3Q6
'Homeless family found in shed': Archbishop Niederauer's Christmas homily shar.es/oV3Es

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Many readers of the Vatican’s official newspaper might have been taken by surprise in mid-January by an article effusively praising a well-known exhibition of “plastinated” human bodies, which was making an extended stop in Rome.

Pastor excels at fundraising: Clear goals, personalized message are key

Long known for its work on behalf of children since the time of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, Little Children’s Aid/Little Children’s Aid Juniors will honor past president Joan Higgins, Feb.10 with the Alice Phelan Sullivan Award.

Former gangsta rapper, rap group, debut in Catholic hip-hop concert

ROME (CNS) – Aborting unborn girls on account of their gender has been a documented trend in certain Asian countries for at least two decades. Now, according to an Italian biologist and author, the practice is also growing in the West.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI warned visiting U.S. bishops that “radical secularism” threatens the core values of American culture, and he called on the church in America, including politicians and other laypeople, to render “public moral ...

Why shouldn’t pro-lifers be discouraged? After all, since its legalization in 1973, there have been roughly 50 million abortions in the United States. After a steady decrease since the 1980s, the annual number of abortions has stuck at about 1.2 million.

A number of recent events have made it abundantly clear that we need a healthy and robust Catholic press.
Humorously fanciful arguments have been advanced by ethnic and national groups to appropriate Jesus Christ for themselves. Jesus was Italian, for instance, because he talked with his hands, drank wine at meals, and used olive oil. He was Native American because he was at ...
To live a chaste life is not easy, not just for celibates, but for everyone. Even when our actions are all in line, it is still hard to live with a chaste heart, a chaste attitude, and chaste fantasies. Purity of heart and intention is very difficult.

Vaclav Havel, who died Dec. 18, was one of the great contemporary exponents of freedom lived nobly. His moral mettle proved true in both the world of ideas and the world of affairs; indeed, few men of the past half-century have moved more surely between those two worlds. In ...

 





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