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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis telephoned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before the president addressed the Italian parliament via video link March 22. Andrii Yurash, Ukrainian ambassador to the Holy See, tweeted that the conversation between the pope and president was...
LUBLIN, Poland — Olga and her youngest children are safe in Poland, but she is consumed with worry for her husband and oldest son, who are still in Ukraine. And her heart breaks when the little ones ask questions, including...
WASHINGTON -- As the nation awaits the U.S. Supreme Court's most significant abortion ruling in decades, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairmen of eight USCCB committees joined together "in prayer and expectant hope...
Today’s reflection: "Full reconciliation with God and with others is necessary before we can enter into the feast of Christ’s body and blood in the Eucharist." — Father Nnamdi Moneme, OMV In his 2019 post on CatholicExchange.com, "Why Reconciliation Must Precede...
Officially, the Saint Thomas More Society will have no winner of the Msgr. Paul J. Taggart St. Thomas More award at its annual dinner April 24 at the Wilmington Country Club. In reality, it has already been awarded. The late Mike...
Students from Salesianum, Padua and Ursuline raised more than $283,064.48 for area nonprofits during the 10th annual SALSthon, a dance marathon held in the overnight hours of March 19-20 at Salesianum. This was the 10th SALSthon, according to Kim Chiomento,...
VATICAN CITY -- Priests should try to help show the true face of the church as an open, welcoming home inhabited by the Lord and enlivened by love, said Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the Synod of the Bishops,...
WASHINGTON -- St. Peter gained the upper hand on St. Patrick's Day when the underdog team of the small Jesuit school, Saint Peter's University of Jersey City, New Jersey, upset the mighty University of Kentucky in the first round...
ROME -- One of the Orthodox scholars who signed a statement condemning as "heresy" the political vision of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is a U.S.-born Russian Orthodox nun and scholar of Byzantine liturgy. Sister Vassa Larin, a nun...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis again condemned Russia's war on Ukraine, calling it a "senseless massacre" and "sacrilegious" attack on human life. "Sadly, the violent aggression against Ukraine does not stop, a senseless massacre where each day slaughter and atrocities...

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