Religious orders are creating new ways to promote family and community-based child care as opposed to institutionalized care.
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Church leaders seek aid for Catholic students in coronavirus relief bill
Some of the country’s most prominent church leaders appealed to Congressional negotiators to include financial support for families to continue to send their children to Catholic and non-public schools in a coronavirus relief bill currently being negotiated.
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Court sides with Trump on right to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants
The court said the president was within his rights to revoke Temporary Protected Status from Salvadoran immigrants. The ruling also is expected to affect TPS holders from Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Sudan and Nepal.
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San Francisco Catholics urged to speak up about ‘punitive’ limits on Mass
Archbishop Cordileone: “We cannot simply standby while our people are treated with this lack of compassion for their needs, and this lack of respect for their rights.”
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Two groups criticize Catholic honor planned for U.S. Attorney General William Barr
Barr is scheduled to receive the Christifideles Laici award, which is named for St. John Paul II’s post-synodal exhortation. The award is given “in honor and gratitude for fidelity to the church, exemplary selfless and steadfast service in the Lord’s vineyard.”
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Pope Francis to take his post-pandemic pleas to global stage
Pope Francis began a series of general audience talks Aug. 5 about the principles of Catholic social teaching that can help the world recover from the pandemic and move forward in a way that is better for human beings and for the environment.
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Salvadoran university welcomes conviction for ’89 Jesuit murders
In a Sept. 11 ruling, former Col. Inocente Orlando Montano, 77, was found to have planned and ordered the murders of the five Jesuits priests — all Spanish nationals — Nov. 16, 1989, at their residence on the Central American University campus.
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Cardinal urges world to help restore Lebanon, not let it ‘fall into despair’
The Catholic Church in Lebanon plays a leading role in shaping public opinion in that troubled country because it is free and speaks the truth, Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, told an internet audience Sept. 10.
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A family struggle as pandemic worsens food insecurity
Food insecurity has a profound effect on single parent families, especially during a pandemic.
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Pope Francis: It is impossible to bear the tragic loss of a child without God’s help
“Every tragic death brings with it great pain. But when it snatches (the lives of) five adolescents and a young mother, it is immense, unbearable without God’s help,” he told members of the victims’ families Sept. 12.