The Italian bishops’ conference are trying to find ways to provide needed care and programs for children and adolescents during the pandemic.
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Franciscan University to pay tuition costs for new students in fall
Due to the economic problems created by the pandemic, the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio has announced that it will assume the remaining tuition costs after scholarships and grants for the fall 2020 semester have been used. It will apply to all incoming full-time undergraduate students enrolled in on-campus programs.
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Pope postpones World Meeting of Families, World Youth Day
On the recommendation of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, Pope Francis is postponing the upcoming World Meeting of Families as well as World Youth Day by a year because of coronavirus.
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Money has warped youth sports. Ignatian spirituality offers a better way to play.
St. Ignatius invites us to discern spiritual meaning in everyday experience. I have found that such discoveries occur frequently on the basketball court.
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St. Ignatius, pizza and jokes: How I minister to college students
We are talking about God, life, joys, sorrows, prayer and Jesus. The Holy Spirit comes and stays the whole time.
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What it’s like to get to know your bishop on pilgrimage
Mychael Schilmoeller was part of a delegation of young adults who accompanied their bishops on their “ad limina” visit to Rome to meet with Pope Francis.
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Stabbings, shootings and assaults weigh on U.S. Jewish youth
Anti-Semitic attacks rose worldwide by 13% in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to a report by Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary Jewry.
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Announcing America’s 2020 Generation Faith Essay Contest
“A church that does not listen…cannot be credible,” Pope Francis said in his opening remarks to a worldwide meeting of Catholic leaders on the topic of young people. The pope said the church needs to listen “to those young people who often do not feel understood by the church” and are “not accepted for who they […]
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Seniors squeeze out kids in federal budget
Federal spending on children fell to 1.9 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product in 2018.
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Comedy writer Jeannie Gaffigan sees urgent need to help Catholic teens
The mother of five and wife of comedian Jim Gaffigan said she has a charism and a vocation to work with post-confirmation teens