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Show compassion, change hearts one at a time, speakers urge pro-lifers
HERNDON, Va. — Olivia Gans Turner has been a prominent pro-life speaker for years, but it didn’t always come easy.
“I hated public speaking, and...
Have questions about bishops’ Communion document? The USCCB has answers
WASHINGTON — A page on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops answers a series of questions regarding the bishops’ vote to...
Hospital in Beirut shows assistance still needed more than 10 months...
BEIRUT — Nearly a year after the blast at the Beirut port, the memory of that night is still so vivid.
Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui, located...
U.S. bishops praise President Joe Biden for committing to 500 million...
WASHINGTON -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairman of the USCCB's Committee on International Justice and Peace praised...
Religious Freedom Week: Celebrate freedom to live faith publicly, work to...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Religious Freedom Week June 22-29 is an opportunity for Catholics across the country to take...
Vatican should offer some hope for Lebanon, ambassadors say
BEIRUT — Pope Francis’ meeting with Lebanon’s Christian religious leaders will “at least give a sign of hope” to the beleaguered country, said the...
U.S. bishops’ conference president asks Catholics for prayers as work begins...
WASHINGTON — The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked the nation’s Catholics to pray for him and his brother bishops...
Catholic Democratic members of Congress press U.S. bishops not to deny...
CLEVELAND -- Shortly before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced the bishops had approved moving forward in drafting a teaching document on the...
Pope Francis names U.S. Cardinals Joseph W. Tobin and James M....
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has named U.S. Cardinals Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and James M. Harvey, archpriest of Rome's Basilica...
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell: Faith’s storehouse of story and symbol enhances poet’s...
In the introduction to her 2014 prose work "Mortal Blessings," poet and educator Angela Alaimo O'Donnell offers this frank observation: "Poetry seemed to be...