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Today’s Readings
Galatians 6:14-18
Galatians 2:16, 20; Philippians 1:20-21
Luke 9:23-26
Today’s Headlines from Catholic News Service
Santa Rosa Diocese reaches settlement with priest’s abuse victims
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (CNS) — The Diocese of Santa Rosa reached a settlement of more than $5 million to resolve sex abuse claims against a fugitive priest, Father Francisco Ochoa-Perez, who was [...]
By Sharon Abercrombie
Catholic News Service
OAKLAND, Calif. (CNS) — Their family home in Fallujah, Iraq, was shelled, burned and looted. They languished for two years in Istanbul, Turkey, within the cultural and vocational limbo accorded refugees who are waiting to be permanently resettled somewhere, sometime.
Now that Hana, Wafa and Sana Toma have found a permanent home [...]
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. government should provide resettlement aid for 25,000 Iraqi refugees in the next fiscal year, 10 times the number expected to arrive by the end of the year, said one recommendation of a new report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the Iraqi refugee crisis in [...]
By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
VIENNA, Austria (CNS) — Before an audience of Austrian political leaders and international diplomats, Pope Benedict XVI urged Europe not to jettison its Christian values — especially when it comes to the rights of the unborn and the dying.
The pope made the remarks Sept. 7 in an ornate reception hall of [...]
By Catholic News Service
SAN DIEGO (CNS) — The Diocese of San Diego Sept. 7 announced an agreement to pay $198.1 million to settle lawsuits with 144 victims of sexual abuse by priests.
The diocese had originally offered $95 million to settle the claims. The plaintiffs sought $200 million.
Earlier in the year, the diocese filed for bankruptcy [...]
By Catholic News Service
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — Prisons must not be centers for torture and other degrading forms of punishment, but must help rehabilitate detainees so they can “conduct upright and honest lives within society,” said Pope Benedict XVI.
Jails and correctional facilities “must contribute to the rehabilitation of offenders, facilitating their transition from despair [...]
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — As a priest for 52 years and a Boy Scout for 65, Msgr. John B. Brady says he has never experienced the “youthful spiritual enthusiasm” he witnessed this summer as a chaplain at the Goshen Scout Reservation in Goshen, Va.
“Scouts of every faith attended religious services in record numbers,” [...]
By Catholic News Service
BOISE, Idaho (CNS) — Bishop Michael P. Driscoll of Boise urged Idahoans to pray and support Sen. Larry Craig and his family Sept. 1, hours after the senator announced that he was resigning his post.
“Seeing his family and friends behind him, I could not help but feel compassion for this man who [...]
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — More than $10 million was distributed by the U.S. bishops’ Hurricane Recovery Task Force to the two dioceses hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina two years ago.
The “Rebuild Church, Rebuild Hope” collection approved in June 2006 by the bishops distributed $6,175,103.41 to the Archdiocese of New Orleans and $4,116,735.60 to [...]
By Joshua Garner
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Kelly Ann Lynch recalls her friend, Franciscan Father Mychal F. Judge, as someone who always said “yes” to helping those in need.
That’s why Lynch named her new children’s book “He Said Yes: The Story of Father Mychal Judge.”
“He said ‘yes’ to so many things,” said Lynch of the [...]
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