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Dare to love, embrace it to change hearts, pope urges world’s youth

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VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) – Dare to love, to embrace the only force capable of changing the hearts of every human person and of ... continue reading

Checklist for a Catholic church wedding

Image of CATHOLIC CHURCH WEDDING – Engaged couples can find that making a church checklist is a very helpful tool to assure that all of the details related to getting married in a church are taken care of. (Photo Illustration CNS)

WASHINGTON (CNS) – Any bridal magazine worth its salt will include, somewhere within its hundreds of pages of photos and ... continue reading

Text of Pope Benedict XVI’s message for the 2007 World Youth Day

VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) – Dare to love, to embrace the only force capable of changing the hearts of every human person and of ... continue reading

Some of nation's youngest lobbyists take to Hill for Catholic schools

Image of STUDENT PLACES PIN ON CONGRESSIONAL STAFF MEMBER DURING MEETING - Eighth-grade student Abner Funez from St. Bernard of Clairvaux School in Riverdale, Md., places a Catholic Schools Week pin on Kris Skrzycki, the deputy chief of staff for Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., during a Catholic Schools Week visit to congressional offices in Washington Jan. 31. Shaqueil Alexander, a seventh-grade student from the same school, holds a Catholic School Week sign. Students from Catholic schools visited congressional offices to voice their concerns on issues affecting Catholic schools. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

WASHINGTON (CNS) – A wave of teenage – and preteen – lobbyists descended upon Washington Jan. 31 to make the legislative ... continue reading

Catholic teen honored for pro-life commitment despite obstacles

METUCHEN, N.J. (CNS) – At a young age, Theresa Hanntz has already battled opposition to her pro-life activities, yet she remains ... continue reading

"1001 Black Inventions" performed in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

COLCHESTER, Vt. (The Defender) - In the dimly lit Chapel of St. Michael the Archangel, usually a quiet spot for personal reflection, four ... continue reading

Postcard collection, school support help student fight his cancer

Image of STUDENT WITH BRAIN TUMOR SURROUNDED BY CLASSMATES, TEACHERS - Chad Scanlon, in a blue jacket, a sixth-grader at Holy Trinity School in Ligonier, Pa., is surrounded in 2006 by classmates, friends and teachers who had gotten buzz cuts to support him during his cancer treatments. While Chad has been battling a brain tumor, he has kept his focus on other things, including making a collection of postcards from all 50 states and every country around the world. (CNS photo/Ed Zelachoski, The Catholic Accent)

LIGONIER, Pa. (CNS) – While sixth-grader Chad Scanlon has been battling a cancerous brain tumor he has kept his focus on other things, ... continue reading

Church’s defense of marriage supports, human nature, God’s plan, pope says

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Catholic Church defends marriage as the permanent bond of a man and a woman because matrimony corresponds to ... continue reading

Book offers secrets of sucessful thinking, learning, communicating to teens

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St. Paul, Minn. (Top 20 Press) – Do you think there is something outside of you that, if you could get it, would make a wonderful ... continue reading

Catholic couple's child born on Roe anniversary seen as ‘miracle’

Image of MOTHER PLAYS WITH DAUGHTER – Yvonne Alomia plays with her daughter Sofia in their home in El Paso, Texas. Sofia will celebrate her first birthday this year on the Jan. 22 anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. Her mother Yvonne feels that is significant because during a difficult pregnancy she was frequently advised to have an abortion rather than carry Sofia to term. (CNS/Rio Grande Catholic)

EL PASO, Texas (CNS/Rio Grande Catholic) – El Pasoan Sofia Alomia will celebrate her first birthday this January much like any other ... continue reading

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