Sister Markham’s experience, and her heart, changed when she and her convent took in a young Romanian couple in the ’90s that was fleeing persecution in their homeland.
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Ex-soldier to be charged in Bloody Sunday killings
A former British soldier is set to be prosecuted in connection with the deaths of two civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland 47 years ago, part of an incident known as Bloody Sunday.
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Death penalty opponents applaud sudden moratorium in California
“The intentional killing of another person is wrong and as governor, I will not oversee the execution of any individual,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
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Cardinal Pell’s victim questions six-year jail sentence
Victims of child sexual abuse in Australia decried the lenient sentence of 6 years which was handed down in the Cardinal Pell case. The victims view the upcoming June appeal hearing as adding further pain and insult to victims’ sufferings.
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The good, the bad and the merciful: Pope Francis after six years
Noted Vatican commentator Thomas Reese reflects on the sixth-year anniversary of Pope Francis’ election to the Chair of Peter, and cites the good, the bad, and the merciful aspects of the pontificate.
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California Governor Newsom places moratorium on executions
The 737 inmates on California’s largest-in-the-nation death row are getting a reprieve from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who plans to sign an executive order Wednesday placing a moratorium on executions.
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‘Scourge of abuse, internal attacks’ mark Pope Francis sixth year in office
Pope Francis’ sixth year in office, Andrea Tornielli said, “was characterized by the scourge of abuse and by suffering from internal attacks. His response was a call to return to the heart of faith.”
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Cardinal Pell is sentenced to 6 years in prison for child sex abuse
An Australian judge has sentenced Cardinal to 6 years in prison for molesting two choirboys.
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‘The Walking Dead’ actress calls her deafness ‘a gift’ and remembers Catholic school as ‘family’
Lauren Teruel Ridloff, an actress from AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” visits her old school and recounts her life as a deaf child and how her experiences at Chicago’s Holy Trinity School for the Deaf–now Children of Peace School–has enriched her life and influenced her career.
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CLINIC says South Sudan T.P.S. extension should have included new arrivals
An organization based in Silver Spring, Md., known as CLINIC–Catholic Legal Immigration Network–has called the Department of Homeland Security’s decision not to include more recent arrivals from war-torn South Sudan (apart from those already here) as part of the Temporary Protected Status designation as “morally reprehensible.”