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Dr. Tom Catena checks on a young patient in a wheelchair outside Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, Sudan, in 2012. Catena, a U.S. Catholic physician and missionary who serves in Sudan, has received the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. (CNS photo/Jaco Klamer, courtesy CMMB)

U.S. Catholic honored as missionary, physician working in Sudan war zone

Posted by - June 17, 2017
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Hidden in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, a war zone for the past few years, a U.S. Catholic missionary, Dr. Tom Catena, ministers to a village of…
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Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, speaks June 14 during the opening of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual spring assembly in Indianapolis. (CNS photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion)

Take courage, recognize grace, apostolic nuncio to U.S. tells bishops

Posted by - June 17, 2017
INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., called the U.S. Catholic bishops to be missionary disciples through listening and fostering solidarity and a culture of encounter.…
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Irish Bishop Paul Tighe, adjunct secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture, speaks June 7 during the "Sport at the Service of Humanity: A Regional Conference on Faith and Collegiate Sports" at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. The conference was the first to be sanctioned by the Vatican following its inaugural conference on faith and sports in Rome in October 2016. (CNS photo/courtesy Villanova University)

Villanova University conference explores intersection of faith and sports

Posted by - June 17, 2017
VILLANOVA, Pa. (CNS) — Last October, the Vatican hosted a groundbreaking conference to explore the ways faith and sports could act together to spark positive social change, and encourage greater…
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Sisters from seven Latin American countries who serve in poor communities in the United States pose May 26 in Chicago during a May 19-28 meeting and retreat. They are in the U.S. through Catholic Extension's U.S.-Latin American Sisters Exchange Program. (CNS photo/Rich Kalonick, Catholic Extension)

Latin American sisters in U.S. ‘build bridges’ during ‘challenging time’

Posted by - June 17, 2017
CHICAGO (CNS) — Thirty-four Latin American sisters who are working as missionaries in poor Latino communities in the United States recently gathered for a 10-day retreat and meeting in Chicago.…
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Homeless Filipinos rest in late April on a street in Manila. World Day of the Poor, to be celebrated Nov. 19 this year, will focus on the apostle John's call to love "not with words, but with deeds." (CNS photo/Francis R. Malasig, EPA)

Poverty requires action, not empty words, pope says

Posted by - June 17, 2017
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People cannot sit back and be indifferent or unresponsive to growing poverty in the world as a privileged minority accumulates “ostentatious wealth,” Pope Francis said. “God…
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Archbishop Thomas Wenski ordained nine men to the priesthood, the largest archdiocesan class in decades, on the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima, May 13, 2017 at St. Mary Cathedral in Miami, Florida. From left: Father James Arriola, Father Alexander Rivera, Father Luis Flores, Father Edgardo "Gary" De Los Santos, the archbishop, Father Oswaldo Agudelo, Father Joseph Maalouf, Father Mathew Padickal Thomas, Father Luis Pavon and Father Juan Carlos Salazar. Photo by Marlene Quaroni.

Young Chamorro Ordained to the Priesthood Comes Home to Celebrate First Mass on Guam

Posted by - June 17, 2017
By Jennifer Louise Dulla James Mathew Rabon Arriola, 28 of Barrigada was ordained to the Priesthood on May 13, 2017 in the Cathedral of Saint Mary for the Archdiocese of…
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