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Blessed Stanley Rother's sister, Sister Marita Rother, gives the first reading during the beatification Mass for her brother Sept. 23 at Oklahoma City's Cox Convention Center. Blessed Rother, a priest of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese, was murdered in 1981 in the Guatemalan village where he ministered. (CNS photo/Dave Crenshaw, Eastern Oklahoma Catholic)

Blessed Rother ‘an authentic light’ for church and world, says cardinal

Posted by - September 30, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) — If the martyrdom of Blessed Stanley Francis Rother “fills us with sadness,” it also “gives us the joy of admiring the kindness, generosity and courage of…
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Rescue personnel remove rubble Sept. 20 at a collapsed building while searching for survivors after an earthquake hit Mexico City. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Sept. 19 to the southeast of the city, killing hundreds. (CNS photo/Claudia Daut, Reuters)

Pope prays for victims of Mexico quake

Posted by - September 24, 2017
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As search and rescue operations continued in central Mexico, where more than 200 people died after a strong earthquake Sept. 19, Pope Francis offered his prayers…
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Msgr. Mark Merdian of Peoria, Ill., and Father Ryan Ford of Marquette, Mich., concelebrate Mass in 2016 at Sacred Heart Chapel in Detroit. Sacred Heart Major Seminary offers working priests a distance-learning program to earn a degree in the new evangelization. (CNS photo/courtesy Sacred Heart Major Seminary)

For working priests, distance-learning evangelization degree is godsend

Posted by - September 24, 2017
DETROIT (CNS) — Father Joseph Kim serves in a diocese divided. On one side of the valley, there are the billionaires: the Facebooks, the Googles, the Apples. On the other…
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