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Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News
A recent analysis shows 25 percent of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married — a record high — and may indicate “the closing of the American heart,” according to W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023
The Catholic Church is not a “club” for the elderly; it needs the participation of young people to keep it alive and ensure it does not “grow old,” Pope Francis said.
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In a federal suit, the public interest firm Alliance Defending Freedom is suing the state of Vermont over a law, signed in May, that restricts advertising by the centers, considered an alternative to abortion clinics, and prohibits non-licensed health care professionals from working there.
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Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Obituaries, World News
The July 26 death of acclaimed Irish singer and songwriter Sinéad O’Connor, who was 56, has seen an outpouring of tributes from all walks of Irish life.
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Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 2024, faced criticism after defending a controversial portion of Florida’s 2023 Social Studies curriculum suggesting “slaves developed skills” that could be used for their “personal benefit.”
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Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Catholic immigration groups and the U.S. bishops have objected to the asylum ban, arguing it violates existing U.S. immigration law, and exposes those who may otherwise be eligible for asylum to additional danger.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries
An 11 a.m. funeral Mass for Jesuit Father James F. Joyce, a former chaplain at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore from 2012 to 2016, will be offered July 27 at Fordham University Church in New York.
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Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, Sports
The July 10-15 ride included stops in Maryland and featured 79 young adult missionaries (18-39 years old) cycling some 100 miles per day to raise awareness and financial support for women and families served by pregnancy resource centers across the county.
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Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
The Justice Department on July 24 sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over a floating barrier recently installed on the Rio Grande, part of the Republican governor’s latest attempts to stop migrants from crossing into the U.S. from Mexico as part of his “Operation Lone Star” program.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, the Catholic Church’s first African American cardinal, reacted to President Joe Biden establishing the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Mississippi and Illinois July 25, saying it was important to remember that youth’s brutal, tragic murder and his mother’s heroic quest for justice as the work for civil rights continues.
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Catholic News Service
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The Jesuits have expelled from their religious order the well-known artist and preacher Father Marko Rupnik for refusing to uphold his vow of obedience and confront allegations of sexually, spiritually and psychologically abusing some two dozen women and at least one man over the course of 30 years, the order said July 24.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023
When Pope Francis arrives in Lisbon for World Youth Day 2023, there will be plenty of pilgrims from the U.S. ready to greet him — close to 29,000.
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