“We need to get this mandate overturned” by the courts said Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski said of the requirement that many religious employers pay for contraceptives for their workers.
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Flooding at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes on Oct. 20 temporarily closed much of the popular French pilgrimage site.
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Christians Worry, But Note Signs of Freedom
Some of Egypt’s Christians are concerned about Islamists in power, but there is greater freedom of speech than before the revolution.
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Accent on the ‘New’
As a global synod convened in October, it may be fair to ask how the “new” evangelization differs from the “old.”
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Syria Delegation
A papal delegation of bishops, including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, will travel to the capital of war-torn Syria in late October.
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Scapegoating the Aged
Western nations must resist the pressure to “scapegoat, abandon, even kill, the elderly as a cost-cutting measure,” an Australian bishop said.
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Vulnerable to Violence In Guatemala
In Guatemala young women are vulnerable to many forms of violence, according to the human rights office of the Archdiocese of Guatemala City.
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Jacques Berthieu, a French Jesuit (1838–96) and missionary in Madagascar, was canonized in Rome on Oct. 21 together with six other blessed.
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Victims’ Families Seek ‘Justice’ at 9/11 Trial
By traveling to Guantánamo Bay, the family members had a unique opportunity to face personally the men accused of murdering their loved ones.
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World Watches As Syria Suffers
Why can the United States and the world community not do more to end Syria’s civil war?