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LIVONIA, Mich. -- They were teachers. A librarian. A director of religious education. A secretary in the Vatican Secretariat of State. The author of a 586-page history of the congregation. One was an organist. One helped her second-grade class write...
VATICAN CITY -- In the Catholic Church, a person's canonization is almost always preceded by decades of meticulous investigation into the minute details of the candidate's life. Thousands of saints have been raised to the altars after these thorough investigations,...
MANCHESTER, England -- The Catholic Church has failed to defend Christians effectively, partly because it historically accepted persecution as part of its "community story," a Vatican official said. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican's foreign minister, told an online forum in...
Sunday Scripture readings, July 26, 2020: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1) 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12 Psalm 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130 2) Rom 8:28-30 Gospel: Mt 13:44-52 or 13:44-46 Faith is a treasure of great price "Antiques Roadshow" is a long running popular public...
The annual recognition ceremony was canceled, but the Diocese of Wilmington has presented awards to Girl and Boy Scouts as usual. The names were provided by the Catholic Youth Ministry office. Girl Scouts Three girls received the Cross Award, a diocesan...
BALTIMORE -- Weeks after protesters toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into Baltimore's Inner Harbor, members of the city's Italian American community are developing a plan to reproduce the marble monument so it can be displayed...
WASHINGTON — When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the Washington area in mid-March, shuttering many local restaurants and businesses, the lines at a weekly food pantry sponsored by the Spanish Catholic Center immediately jumped from about 60 people to...
VALLA BEACH, Australia — China has announced that Bishop Paul Ma Cunguo of Shuozhou, a Vatican-recognized bishop, has joined the official state-run Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. It is the third such concession made by Chinese authorities inside a month as...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — U.S. Catholic schools are tweaking their reopening plans for a worrisome fall term by consulting parents and training staff for face-to-face instruction in many cases but with distance-learning programs in place as well. With only...
VATICAN CITY -- When Zoe, 10, showed up late for summer camp at the Vatican, she did not expect to see Pope Francis there. "I froze because it was a surprise and I had never seen him before. I liked...

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