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 …
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By Kate Scanlon, OSV News
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5/25/23
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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 …
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By Pablo Kay, Los Angeles
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3/2/23
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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. …
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By Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service
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10/27/22
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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 …
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By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service, Washington, D.C.
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12/15/21
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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 …
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By Gina Christian, Philadelphia
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7/8/21
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Pope Francis’ encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” is a “challenging document” because of the many issues it covers, but it’s also “very practical” because it …
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Catholic News Service, St. Paul, Minnesota
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4/28/21
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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 …
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By Jay Nies
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4/20/21
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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 …
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By Christopher M. Riggs, Catholic News Service, Wichita, Kansas
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3/11/21
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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 …
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Catholic News Service, Washington, D.C.
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1/21/21
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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 …
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By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service, Cleveland
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12/17/20
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The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vaccines,” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to accept the …
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By Julie Asher, Catholic News Service, Washington, D.C.
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12/17/20
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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 …
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By Jay Nies and Julie Asher
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12/9/20
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