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Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski remembered the former leader of Cuba and prayed for peace.
Lithuanian Archbishop Gintaras Grusas is seen at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this 2013 file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Support from Europe and the United States has helped calm some fears related to neighboring Russia, said Archbishop Gintaras Grusas.
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Sylvester and Angela Geurts exchange the sign of peace during Mass Oct. 2 at St. Katharine Drexel Church in Kaukauna, Wis. The Geurts are celebrating their 70th anniversary this year. (CNS photo/Sam Lucero, The Compass)
In Christian marriage spouses retain their identity while bringing all else together as one.
The Lakota prayer over water has become a rallying cry in the mass action to prevent the construction of a crude oil pipeline near their reservation.
Pope Francis greets British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, during an audience with participants attending a plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican on Nov. 28. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handout)
The pope said there was a "weak response" in most international policies to promoting the common good.
Chaldean Father Remzi Diril, also known as Father Adday, anoints Marta Kiryakos, a woman from Bartella, Iraq, who suffers from cancer, in this Nov. 10 photo. (CNS photo/Oscar Durand)
Being the only Chaldean Catholic priest in charge of pastoral work in Turkey, Father Adday is a road warrior who logs thousands of miles meeting Iraqi Christian refugees in Turkey.
"A rigidity that is far from a discernment of situations has been introduced" in seminaries, Pope Francis said. He also called clericalism "one of the most serious illnesses that the church has."
The campaign is demanding better pay, beginning with a hike of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. It is currently a paltry $7.25 and has not budged in seven years.
None of us truly understands what it means that “the Son of Man will come.”