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Michigan community picks up pieces after ‘everyone’s worst nightmare’
A day after a tragic shooting claimed the lives of four Oxford High School students and forever changed the lives of countless others, community members were picking up the pieces.
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Pro-lifers hopeful about outcome of Dobbs case, urge prayers for court
The chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee Dec. 1 urged Catholics, people of other faiths and all people of goodwill to unite in prayer that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade in its eventual ruling on ...
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After racist comments, Catholic University replaces stolen icon with copy
The president of The Catholic University of America said the institution's law school has replaced an icon of Mary holding Jesus that was stolen after some complained the image of Christ resembled George Floyd, a Black man killed by a ...
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Archbishop: Arbery verdict does not bring him back, but advances justice
Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer said the verdict convicting three white men for the 2020 murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery "does not bring him back. It does not bridge the racial divide in our community. It does not bring to an ...
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Pastor forgives attackers, urges them to turn from crime
Three days after he was pistol-whipped and robbed, the pastor of St. Leo the Great Parish in Baltimore's Little Italy said he has been overwhelmed by support from his parish and the wider community.
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New CEO aims to step up fight against sexual exploitation
When Dawn Hawkins started 12 years ago as a volunteer at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, it was a modest organization operating under the name under which it was founded 68 years ago—Morality in Media.
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Miami clergy raise concerns as Trump tours Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’