WASHINGTON -- In a strongly worded message prior to National Migration Week Jan.7-13, the president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas expressed solidarity with migrants and called on others to stop "blaming migrants and fanning anti-immigrant sentiment...
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency is revising its policies to no longer exclude houses of worship from applying for federal aid to recover from damages caused by natural disasters.
The policy change was outlined in the agency's revised...
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WASHINGTON -- After new Federal Communications Committee chair Ajit Pai announced his intentions in April to redo federal policy on net neutrality, the Dec. 14 vote to rewrite the rules should have seemed anticlimactic.
That was far from...
People frequently lean toward snowfall totals to measure the intensity of winter storms. Of course, many weather elements combine to make it treacherous outdoors.
Wind, cold and, yes, snow came together to clobber Delaware and the eastern shore of Maryland...
WASHINGTON -- The brutally cold weather covering the eastern two-thirds of the country at the start of 2018 kept Catholic agencies scurrying to find ways to make sure no one was left without warm shelter and hot meals.
From Montana...
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ROME -- In Kazakhstan, "divorced people living with someone else would not dare ask for holy Communion because they know they are living in a situation of sin. It would be blasphemy," said Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider...
MILWAUKEE -- A recent stint translating blogs from Spanish to English on Alverno College's SisterStory website gave graduate Sarai Melendez a lesson in religious life.
Funded under a Conrad Hilton Foundation grant, Melendez's work also helped bring the story of...
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VATICAN CITY -- A bishop, seven Trappist monks and 11 other religious men and women killed by extremists in Algeria in the 1990s will soon be recognized as martyrs, the postulator for their causes said.
The decree for...
SINSINAWA, Wis. -- A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 2 for Dominican Sister John Eudes Courtney, who spent 68 years in religious life. Sister Courtney died Dec. 22 at age 95 at the Sinsinawa Dominicans' motherhouse in Sinsinawa.
She served...
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The Epiphany of the Lord
Cycle B
1) Is 60:1-6
Psalm 72:1, 7-8, 10-13
2) Eph 3:2-3, 5-6
Gospel: Mt 2:1-12
Not just a once and future event
"Nations shall walk by your light." "Justice shall flower in his days." "The lives of the...