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Students at St. Joseph Academy in Brownsville, Texas, check their smartphones during lunch in 2016. Dominican Sister Patricia Daly, retired executive director of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, agreed to advise the investors as they press Apple to make software updates to its highly popular iPhone and to study the mental health impact of smartphone overuse. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Investors tap Dominican sister’s experience for smartphone campaign

Posted by - February 4, 2018
WASHINGTON (CNS) — As two major shareholders of Apple Inc. urge the company to take steps to help parents control and limit smartphone use by their children, a veteran of…
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A teacher works with students in 2017 at St. Joseph Mission School in rural San Fidel, N.M. The school's student body is 90 percent Native American and 10 percent Hispanic. (CNS photo/Rich Kalonick, Catholic Extension)

Program develops leaders for Catholic schools in U.S. mission dioceses

Posted by - February 4, 2018
CHICAGO (CNS) — At a time when many Catholic schools are struggling with enrollment, fighting to survive and at times shutting their doors, Catholic Extension and Loyola Marymount University have…
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Students attend a prayer vigil Jan. 23 at a church in Marion, Ky., after a 15-year-old boy opened fire with a handgun that day at Marshall County High School. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called for prayers for the victims killed and injured in a pair of school shootings in Kentucky and Italy High School in Texas Jan. 22. (CNS photo/Harrison McClary, Reuters)

USCCB president calls for prayer after pair of school shootings

Posted by - January 27, 2018
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston called for prayers for the victims killed and injured in a pair of school shootings in Kentucky and Texas. In a…
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President Donald Trump greets a girl after addressing attendees of the annual March for Life rally from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington Jan. 19. The live feed was projected onto a large video screen during the rally on the National Mall. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)

Every child ‘precious gift from God,’ Trump tells pro-life rally

Posted by - January 27, 2018
WASHINGTON (CNS) — In remarks broadcast to the March for Life from the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump said that his administration “will always defend the very first…
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Bishop Joseph C. Bambera of Scranton, Pa., who is chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, celebrates a prayer service Jan. 18 in the chapel at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' headquarters in Washington. The service was said on the first day of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Bishop: Christians of all traditions can be models of unity in divisive time

Posted by - January 27, 2018
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Christians of different faith traditions gathering to pray, to work together for a better world and to express love for others despite differences can provide a powerful…
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