As of today, our bishops will be spending the next seven days in a retreat at Mundelein Seminary in Chicago and the faithful are being asked to join them by devoting the next week to intercessory prayer and sacrifices on their behalf.
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In a major new document written for Catholics of the Diocese of Phoenix, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted urges fathers and mothers to commit themselves and their families to a deeper relationship with Christ.
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With World Youth Day 2019 just one month away, pilgrims are being asked to prepare for this pilgrimage the best way possible – with prayer.
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The “Christmas wars” are being fought – and won - all over the world these days. The latest victory occurred in a shopping mall in Scotland where the faithful convinced the owners to overturn their ban on allowing a Nativity scene in their Christmas display.
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A new study on young adults who leave the Catholic Church has found that youth stop identifying as Catholic at a median age of 13 for reasons ranging from disbelief to dissatisfaction with Church teaching.
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The Postulator of the Cause for the canonization of Blessed John Henry Newman has announced that a second miracle has been approved in his cause for sainthood.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that half of suicidal teens in a hospital sample said the controversial
Netflix hit show,
13 Reasons Why contributed to their suicidal symptoms.
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Interior of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Rue du Bac, Paris (Wikicommons)
November 27th each year commemorates the manifestation of Our Lady’s Miraculous Medal. This sacramental, known and beloved worldwide, arose from the humblest of origins, in keeping with those of the Virgin whose image it bears.
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Jamie Schmidt (courtesy of the family's GoFundMe page)
A 53-year-old mother of three, who flatly refused to be sexually assaulted by an armed assailant in a Catholic Supply store near St. Louis, Missouri, is being mourned by those who knew her and celebrated for the heroism she showed in the face of death.
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No More Victims, a laity group with the likes of theologian Mary Healey, Ph.D. and broadcaster Al Kresta on its board, has issued a “reader” for both the bishops and the laity detailing what can be done to counter sex abuse of adults and minors in the Church and how the laity should become involved in the solution to these problems.
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