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VATICAN CITY -- Arms flailing, the exuberant and perhaps hyperactive Italian actor and comedian Roberto Benigni described Pope Francis as a masterful minister of God’s mercy, which is always active and always on the move.
WASHINGTON -- When President Barack Obama unveiled a series of executive orders Jan. 5 intended to make a dent in gun violence in the United States, people reacted. And how.
ROME -- As part of his personal observance of the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis made an unannounced, “private” visit to a retirement home and to a group home for people in a persistent vegetative state, the Vatican said.
Estelle Ellen Tince Lievsay Willems Girard, 97, a member of St. Joseph Church in Paris, died Dec. 9. She is survived by ...
St. Raphael Church in Springdale continues to be the largest church in the Diocese of Little Rock. One out of every seven Catholics in the state belongs to this parish.
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Two U.S. bishops have written to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson seeking an end to deportation raids that rounded up more than 120 Central American immigrants early in the new year.
WASHINGTON -- Although President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address Jan. 12 hit a fair amount of key Catholic issues, it did not go into detail on them.
VATICAN CITY -- Movies depicting exorcisms could be an important medium for showing how God always triumphs over evil, but instead, they misrepresent the faith and exaggerate human and satanic powers over God, a leading exorcist wrote in the Vatican newspaper.
We are in the midst of self-evaluation season at the seminary. At this time each year, each seminarian at St. Meinrad writes a narrative of his previous year as a seminarian. Certain areas of life are asked to be mentioned such as prayer life, ministry work, understanding of obedience, growth in personality and our life of celibacy. (Columns)
Idaho pastor Saeed Abedini’s story over the past three years is an example of what is happening all over the globe. Christians are persecuted for their faith and are willing to become martyrs. (Editorial)
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