Sister Rita Petruziello said she could feel the contention and nastiness in the air during the presidential election campaign of the last year
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Pope Francis: It’s time to fix overcrowded prisons
The pope invited everyone to pray for all prisoners in the world, and that prisons focus on rehabilitation.
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Syrian government cuts water supply to its own capital after battle with rebels
The cut-off is a major challenge to the government’s effort throughout the nearly 6-year-old civil war to keep the capital as insulated as possible.
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Here’s how the church in India is supporting transgender people.
India has an estimated 500,000 transgender people.
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Pope Francis to world’s bishops: Maintain ‘zero tolerance’ for child abuse
“It is a sin that shames us,” Pope Francis wrote. “Persons responsible for the protection of those children destroyed their dignity.”
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Yemen’s children starve as war drags on
"I have already lost a cousin to malnutrition today, I can't lose my little brother," 19-year-old Mohammed Ali says.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson and Father Pfleger lead a protest to end to Chicago’s violence on New Year’s Eve
Each of the participants carried wooden crosses bearing the names of victims.
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Ending of Muslim registry praised by Catholic organizations
Some see the end of the registry as a way to make it difficult for an incoming Donald Trump administration to target Muslims through such a program.
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Why the Catholic Church is taking a ground-up to helping victims of sexual assault
The imbalance in the world, one Jesuit expert has said, reflects how years of papal pleas and Vatican mandates have not been received or implemented consistently everywhere.
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U.S. Bishops urge legislation to protect ‘Dreamers’ from deportation
Bishop Vásquez points out that there are more than 740,000 young people who have received and benefitted from DACA.