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A Canadian same-sex coupleʼs lawsuit against the surrogate mother who refused their request to abort the unborn baby they had contracted her to carry is drawing attention not only to abortion but also to deeper questions about surrogacy.
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Heated rivalries among soccer fans bubbled to the surface in the lead-up to the World Cup Final that ultimately saw Spain clinch a 1-0 victory over Argentina in an intense match.
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Father Vijay Kiran proudly sports two lapel pins on his clerical suit jacket: one for St. John Paul II and one for St. Teresa of Kolkata.
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Shortly after receiving the woolen pallium as a symbol of unity from Pope Leo XIV, four Canadian metropolitan archbishops returned from Rome amid a Church confronting fresh division.
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In Assisi, one of the main pilgrim draws is a tiny church dwarfed by its expansive surroundings, the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels near Assisi, Italy.
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Laws may govern a people, but they cannot, by themselves, sustain a common future. One of the 20th century’s greatest political theorists believed the answer lays elsewhere.
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With World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly approaching on July 26, few groups can claim as much credit for its existence as the international, volunteer-run Catholic Grandparents Association.
France's bishops are strongly criticizing a "radical choice" made by French lawmakers to legalize "assisted dying."
Twin earthquakes in Venezuela have left nearly 5,000 people dead, according to government officials, triggering a massive mobilization of humanitarian aid organizations.
The Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is demanding a jury trial as it fends off the Trump administration's move to seize a long-revered pilgrimage site for a border wall as part of Trump's hardline crackdown on immigration.
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Catholics from every inhabited continent gathered in Castel Gandolfo July 19 as Pope Leo XIV led the Angelus prayer from the papal summer palace in the small Italian hill town, where the pope reflected on how the kingdom of God grows through "the little things of daily life."
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When the 8:21 a.m. train left Rome's Termini Station to Castel Gandolfo July 12, people were packed like sardines into the regional cars.
