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Missouri lawmakers send ban on gender reassignment surgery, treatments for minors to governor for signature
Missouri lawmakers passed a bill May 10 banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender, as well as a measure blocking transgender … more
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Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell is pictured during a Nov. 17, 2021, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. According to local news reports, he was fatally shot Feb. 18, 2023, and it has been ruled a homicide.
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell was killed in his own home
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell, a native of Ireland who spent most of his four decades as a priest ministering in LA’s inner city, was shot and killed in his Hacienda … more
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Bishops offer prayers after deadly St. Louis school shooting
Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of St. Louis and Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City offered prayers after three people died following an Oct. 24 shooting at a high school in St. … more
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Campers participating in a service project help clean up a walking trail at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, N.Y., July 11, 2017, while attending the Quo Vadis Camp at the seminary.
Study: Young adult Catholics actively engage in faith — just not in a parish
A new study suggests that young adult Catholics ages 18-35 engage in practices to bolster their faith, but tend to do so outside their parish. Those activities often take the form of small … more
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Archbishop Nelson Perez of Philadelphia gathers with members of his archdiocese’s chapter of the Tolton Ambassadors, a group dedicated to promoting Venerable Father Augustus Tolton’s sainthood cause, after a June 26 Mass in Fr. Tolton’s honor in the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia archbishop — ‘Pioneering priest Fr. Tolton a model for healing racism’
Some 175 faithful gathered on June 26 to honor a pioneering African American priest now on the path to sainthood, whose heroic virtues are a model for modern times. Archbishop Nelson Pérez … more
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Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, celebrates the National Mass on the Solemnity of St. Joseph at the the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles March 19, 2021.
Abp. Gomez: Pope wants Church to be ‘the vanguard in society’
Pope Francis’ encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” is a “challenging document” because of the many issues it covers, but it’s also “very practical” because it … more
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Bishop McKnight calls for personal conversion toward ending racism
Racism continues to contaminate society and the Church. Three guilty verdicts against a former Minneapolis police officer in last May’s death of George Floyd do not change that. “In … more
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Father Emil Joseph Kapaun, a Kansas priest and a military chaplain, who died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, is pictured circa 1943. A candidate for sainthood, he died ministering to prisoners of war during the Korean War.
Kansas Catholics recall priest’s wartime ministry, heroism in POW camp
William Hansen kept his silence for over 50 years about being one of the POWs who buried Father Emil Kapaun’s body after the priest died May 23, 1951. In 2005, Hansen was in his … more
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The sun sets behind one of the guard towers at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind., June 10, 2001. The death chamber at the correctional facility is where the federal death penalty is carried out.
Bishops call for an end to the federal death penalty
Bishop W. Shawn McKnight joined Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of St. Louis and their fellow U.S. Catholic bishops in calling for a halt to executions by the federal government and an end to the … more
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CNS photo/Kevin Saragozza, courtesy NASA
Jupiter, Saturn to put on ‘Christmas Star’ show Dec. 21
A once-every-two-decade conjunction involving the solar system’s two gas giants will give earthbound observers a look at a so-called “Christmas Star” on the longest night of the … more
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A dose of the COVID-19 vaccination made by Pfizer and BioNTech is administered in this un-dated handout photo.
Bishops: Getting COVID-19 vaccine is ‘act of charity,’ supports the common good
The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vaccines,” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to accept the … more
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A dose of the COVID-19 vaccination made by Pfizer and BioNTech is administered in this un-dated handout photo.
Bishops, state officials release information on safety, ethics of potential COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19 vaccines being developed by two major pharmaceutical companies do not contain human fetal tissue and are free of aluminum salts or ethlymercury, according to the State of Missouri’s … more
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