Veteran says ‘Little Flower’ kept him alive during months of bombing runs
By Dave Hrbacek Catholic News Service NEW HOPE, Minn. — A German Messerschmitt fighter plane was bearing down on Don Stoulil’s B-17 bomber as…
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Teen spends final days reaching out to vulnerable, poor on city streets
By Christina Gray Catholic News Service SAN FRANCISCO — When 19-year-old Nicholas Peters of San Carlos understood that his life would not be a…
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Monastery life allows God ‘to make us truly free,’ says Cistercian nun
By Jessica Weinberger Catholic News Service PRAIRIE DU SAC, Wis. — Less than 10 miles north of Prairie du Sac, 22 contemplative Catholic nuns…
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Refusing God’s generosity is a sin, pope says
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — In life, Christians face the choice of either being open to encountering God’s generosity…
Read MoreCatholic, other religious groups endorse ‘Faithful Democracy’ statement
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Six Catholic organizations have joined with other religious groups and denominational bodies in endorsing a wide-ranging…
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With Jesus on the peripheries: Jesuits celebrate social commitment
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME — Celebrating 50 years of the Jesuits’ Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat, more than 200 Jesuits and…
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Update: Getty Fire impacts Catholic university, schools, retired sisters
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The Getty Fire that began whipping through mountain communities west of Los Angeles during the early hours…
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Caring for common home requires deep ecological conversion, synod says
By Barbara J. Fraser Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The “unprecedented” environmental and social crisis in the Amazon calls for “a deep personal, social…
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With new decree, pope makes Vatican Secret Archives no longer ‘secret’
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Citing the negative misinterpretations that the word “secret” implies, Pope Francis has changed the name…
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Path to women deacons opened by Pope Benedict, Brazilian bishop says
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — A change to the Code of Canon Law made by Pope Benedict XVI in…
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