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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...
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Father Stanislao Esposito didn’t anxiously await Christmas morning to see what Santa had left him while growing up in Italy. Instead, he awaited a Jan. 6 visit by La Befana, a good witch, who brought gifts for...
Dialog reporter
NEW CASTLE – St. Elizabeth was in control for most of its nonconference boys basketball game Jan 3 at William Penn, but the Colonials used their height advantage to mount the comeback and defeated the Vikings, 61-50. It...
The Buccini Family -- D. Robert, Bernadette, Rob, and Chris -- will receive the Msgr. Thomas J. Reese Award at Catholic Charities Annual Tribute Dinner on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.
The Most Reverend W. Francis Malooly, D.D., Bishop of the...
TEMUCO, Chile -- Sergio Catalaf's son was just 3 days old when police arrested the Mapuche Indian leader, accusing him of terrorism. He and 10 other Mapuche leaders spent 14 months in preventive detention before being acquitted in October...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Bishop William G. Curlin, retired bishop of Charlotte who died Dec. 23, was remembered during his funeral Mass for his joy, generosity of spirit, the attention he gave to people in need and for having a...