Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi won the 95th Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work promoting education rights for children in a year that has been anything but peaceful.The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the two “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young peo
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‘Clear Up “confusion” on Contraception’: Speakers ask synod fathers to stop giving ‘contradictory advice’ on birth control
Speakers ask synod fathers to stop giving ‘contradictory advice’ on birth control.
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Captors Release Kidnapped Priest in Syria : No word on other community members taken
Captors released a Franciscan priest who was among about 20 Christians kidnapped from a Syrian village near the border with Turkey, said the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land. Franciscan Father Hanna Jallouf was being held under house arrest in a convent in Knayeh, a small Christian village i
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Synod Fathers on ‘Graduality’ : Steps forward on sexual and medical ethics
Steps forward on sexual and medical ethics
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Let’s Talk About Marriage: Wisconsin couple to Catholic bishops: The church is failing to address marital issues
Pope Francis and his bishops got a wake-up call on Oct. 7 from a Wisconsin couple who said the Catholic Church was failing to deal with the collapse of the traditional family.Jeff and Alice Heinzen of La Crosse told the pope and 180 bishops attending a synod devoted to family issues that they were a
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Vatican Abuse Panel Expands to Nine Members: Will include more experts, another survivor
A papal commission on child protection will be expanding its nine-member panel to include more experts and another survivor of clerical abuse.The Commission for the Protection of Minors, which Pope Francis established last December, is now awaiting the pope's approval of members' latest effo
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Bayonne Beatification: Life of New Jersey sister called ‘recipe for holiness’
More than 2,200 people packed the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark Oct. 4 to celebrate the first beatification liturgy in the United States.Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, a Sister of Charity of St. Elizabeth from Bayonne, was given the title "blessed" in a joyful ceremon
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Reversing RU-486?: Program offers women regimen to halt RU-486 abortion in first stages
Program offers women the chance to halt chemical abortion in first stages.
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Vatican Diplomats: Stop Extremists with Sanctioned Force: ISIS violence ‘cannot be met with indifference’
ISIS violence ‘cannot be met with indifference’
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Author, Preacher Father Groeschel Dies
Father Benedict J. Groeschel, who was a founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, a leading pro-life figure and popular author, retreat master and preacher, died Oct. 3 at St. Joseph's Home for the elderly in Totowa after a long illness. He was 81."We are deeply saddened by the death