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Q. My son, who is 19, has suffered from anxiety and depression since puberty, although it's only recently that we have recognized it for what it is. He began using marijuana in his early teens, dropped out of school,...
EDMONTON, Alberta -- While presented as missionary work, the operation of residential schools by Catholics in Canada was actually an attempt to impose European culture on Canada's Indigenous people, Pope Francis said. "One cannot proclaim God in a way contrary...
MILLTOWN — Maddie Schepers, a recent graduate of Saint Mark’s High School, has been named the 2021-22 Gatorade Player of the Year for girls soccer in Delaware, the school announced recently. The award recognizes outstanding athletic excellence, but also academic...
MASKWACIS, Alberta -- The first step of Pope Francis' "penitential pilgrimage" to Canada involved him returning two pairs of children's moccasins. The little shoes were not among the Indigenous artifacts held in the Vatican Museums, but rather reminders that Chief...
In glistening language, Jeannine Marie Pitas' poetry collection, "Things Seen and Unseen," invites readers to the place where the mundane borders on the extraordinary, where what we can know with our senses is only part of the story. Broken into...
Jeannine Marie Pitas, a Catholic writer and poet, is a Renaissance woman whose many and varied endeavors are all informed by her faith. Part of that Catholic viewpoint is looking at the world's challenges and seeing, not hopelessness, but opportunity...
Plenty of toe-tapping was going at Aquinas Academy on July 24 as a crowd assembled for a live performance by the Hillbilly Thomists. Aquinas Academy, which is marking 25 years of education this coming school year, hosted a concert and...
EDMONTON, Alberta -- After a flight of more than 10 hours from Rome, Pope Francis landed in Edmonton and met briefly at the airport with Indigenous leaders, Canada's governor general and prime minister before heading to the local seminary...
LAGOS, Nigeria -- The body of a priest was discovered July 19, four days after he was abducted from a parish rectory in central Nigeria, an official with the Diocese of Kafanchan reported. Father John Cheitnum, was one of two...
BALTIMORE — In the 10 days following the U.S. Supreme Court's June 24 ruling overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, the Archdiocese of Detroit's "Walking with Moms in Need" webpage received nearly 1,600 unique page...

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