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Religious ed programs must plan ways to teach amid pandemic
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Just like schools, parish religious education programs have been forced to figure out how to provide instruction in the midst of...
Pontifical Academy for Life criticizes new liberalization of Italian rules for...
VATICAN CITY -- The Italian health ministry's liberalization of recommendations for using RU-486 to induce an abortion is a further sign that the government...
Kenyan rural parishioners have responded to call for help during COVID-19...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- In the collection baskets, priests in rural Kenya have been counting a dollar or two or even five, which congregations have...
Fifth lawsuit accuses retired Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany of...
ALBANY, N.Y. -- A fifth lawsuit has accused retired Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany of alleged sexual abuse.
The lawsuit -- filed the week...
After a year of physician-assisted suicide in New Jersey, Bishop James...
METUCHEN, N.J. (CNS) -- More than a year after the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act took effect in New Jersey,...
Catholic baker’s sweet treats make occasions ‘a little more meaningful’
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Genevie Alejandro never expected her future in the baking entrepreneurial world to begin with a bishop.
But in April, she made her...
Montgomery County, Md., health officer backs off effort to force private...
WASHINGTON -- The Archdiocese of Washington's Catholic Schools Office hailed an Aug. 7 announcement by a Montgomery County health officer that he has rescinded...
Dr. Robert Redfield, head of CDC, says greater risk is to...
WASHINGTON -- Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, thinks it is a good idea for schools to reopen...
St. Augustine High School of New Orleans gets financial boost from...
NEW ORLEANS -- Kenneth St. Charles, president of St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, has toiled in fundraising and development for nearly a...
Roncalli High School, named for St. John XXIII, decides to give...
For its first 50 years, Roncalli High School in Indianapolis had the nickname "Rebels," but school officials announced this summer that they will replace...