by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
In the aftermath of Catholic high school children being accosted and harassed by adult men at the Lincoln Memorial following the March For Life, the Catholic News Agency has reported that one of the same adult protesters also led a group creating a disturbance and attempting to enter Mass across town at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the
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“At least seven Coptic Christians were killed and 12 more injured in Egypt when a bus traveling to a desert monastery south of Cairo was ambushed by Islamic militants who opened fire, Egyptian authorities said on Friday. The bus was traveling to the St. Samuel the Confessor monastery November 2, when a number of attackers approached the vehicle from nearby
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“Archbishop Charles Chaput and three other U.S. Catholic bishops urged support for an executive order on religious freedom from President Donald Trump in a statement they issued Feb. 16.”
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… Poza Rica and its surrounding territory has been the scene of drug-related gang violence and trafficking for many years. But it’s unclear why the Catholic priests were targeted. Priests have been killed before in Mexico, but many of the killings have occurred in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero. The two murders bring the total number of Catholic priests
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Saint Pope John Paul II, in his 1995 Apostolic Journey to the United States, reminded Americans and the Faithful about what freedom truly means – having the right to do what we ought: Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. Homily
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