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Pro-life lawyer says HHS mandate not part of ‘real women’s agenda’
June 26, 2014CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CNS)—Based on her own research and interviews with women, including many post-abortive women, Helen Alvare said women today have a host of concerns that need attention from government and society and getting free contraceptives is not among them. “Women do not think free contraceptives will make their lives free and happy,” she told […] Full Story
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Administration announces steps to handle surge of kids at border
June 26, 2014WASHINGTON (CNS)—As Vice President Joe Biden was conferring with Central American presidents about a surge of children arriving at the U.S. border without a parent, other administration officials were outlining steps to try to keep more people from attempting the dangerous, illegal trek. By June 20, 18 days after the Obama administration announced first steps […] Full Story
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U.S. official discourages Central Americans from sending children north
June 26, 2014WASHINGTON (CNS)—Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has written an open letter to parents of children crossing the U.S. border, addressing some of the myths circulating in Central America and discouraging families from considering sending their children. The text of the letter in English, as provided by Homeland Security, follows. An open letter to the parents […]
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Irish government finalizes terms of inquiry into mother-baby homes
June 26, 2014DUBLIN (CNS)—The Irish government is finalizing the parameters of a judicial inquiry into church-run state-funded mother and baby homes. The inquiry comes amid increased disquiet about some of the reporting of the original story of St. Mary’s Home in Tuam, run by the Bon Secours congregation of nuns. In May, local historian Catherine Corless revealed […]
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‘Bicycle Thieves’ a film masterpiece that voices ‘the cry of the poor’
June 26, 2014Surely one of the most difficult challenges that faces any human being is finding the good even within circumstances that are tragic. And certainly it is equally difficult to acknowledge that what for one person might be simply an inconvenience is for another indeed a tragedy. These two great mysteries are at the heart of […]
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St. Paul the Apostle Church to mark 50 years
June 26, 2014CLEVELAND—The Catholic community at Cleveland’s St. Paul the Apostle Church will soon celebrate the parish’s golden anniversary. The celebration is scheduled for July 5, the very day the first Mass was celebrated in this rural town in White County, some 75 miles northeast of Atlanta. Priests from the Glenmary Home Missioners religious community started the […] Full Story
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Catholic Charities Atlanta requests help for arriving refugees
June 26, 2014ATLANTA—Catholic Charities Atlanta’s Refugee Resettlement Program has seen an unprecedented number of refugee arrivals over the past months. This trend is expected to continue through the summer. According to Catholic Charities, the United States offers a safe haven for approximately 70,000 refugees each year. Around 2,500 of these refugees are resettled in Georgia. Because of […]
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Msgr. Jeannot, retired priest for the Haitian community, dies
June 26, 2014ATLANTA—Msgr. Francois Smith Jeannot, who served as a presiding priest for Masses for the Haitian community at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Decatur, died recently. Msgr. Jeannot began serving at the Decatur parish in 2012 after retiring from ministry in the Jacmel Diocese in Haiti. Retired Bishop Guy Sansaricq was scheduled to preside at […]
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Four studying for priesthood ordained transitional deacons
June 12, 2014ATLANTA—An accountant; a public school teacher; a once business-minded college student; and a young man who discovered his religious vocation in high school. From differing backgrounds, these four men knelt in front of Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory as he placed his hands on their heads in an ancient ritual to bless them and ordain them […]
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Pope tells presidents only God can bring peace to Holy Land
June 12, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Praying for peace in the Holy Land alongside leaders of long-antagonistic nations, Pope Francis called on God to act where human efforts had failed, to end what he described as violence inspired by the devil. “More than once we have been on the verge of peace, but the evil one, employing a variety […]