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MAYFIELD, Ky. -- Mourning, prayer and a resolve to rebuild shattered lives, homes and businesses in Mayfield followed one of the most powerful twisters in U.S. history that leveled the city of 10,000 in western Kentucky overnight Dec. 10.
St. Mike’s alum fights bias in tech against women
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic RegisterA successful software engineer turned start-up CEO, Aashni Shah, and women like her, are still pioneers in a male-dominated tech industry.
Bishops seek conversion therapy bill protection
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAfter a surprise, expedited third reading of long-promised legislation to ban conversion therapy, Canada’s Catholic bishops are hoping the Senate will amend the bill to ensure private conversations and religious teaching about sexuality and gender are not criminalized.
As rich get boosters, Africa lacks vaccines
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterCanada’s ban on travel from southern Africa and the failure of rich countries to effectively share COVID-19 vaccines with the rest of the world has Jesuit Fr. Charles Chilufya steaming mad.
Restoration at Church of the Nativity shows what cooperation can do
By Judith Sudilovsky, Catholic News ServiceBETHLEHEM, West Bank -- When restoration on the Church of the Nativity's wooden beams and leaking roof began in 2013 with the blessing of the three custodial churches, everyone involved was aware of the historic significance of the venture. It was the first time in 540 years that any repair work was done on the church on the site where Jesus was born.
$75 million promised to take bite out of hunger
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterIt’s a hungry world and COVID has only sharpened those hunger pangs.
Report identifies five European nations with increasing anti-Christian violence
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic News ServiceMANCHESTER, England -- Catholics are facing soaring levels of discrimination in some of the most influential countries in Europe, a new report said.
World seeing ‘retreat’ from democracy: Pope Francis
By Catholic News ServiceATHENS, Greece -- From Aristotle to St. Gregory Nazianzus, and from the Acropolis to the olive tree, Pope Francis drew from Greek history and culture to appeal for a faith that is lived in good works and a politics that truly seeks the common good.
At Lesbos refugee camp, Pope Francis urges attack on causes of migration, not those forced to flee
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News ServiceMYTILENE, Greece -- Standing in a tent on the shore, Pope Francis said the Mediterranean Sea, “the cradle of so many civilizations, now looks like a mirror of death.”
Canadian delegation cancels Rome papal summit over Omicron concerns
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPostponed, not cancelled, but still heartbreaking. The long planned encounter between Indigenous Canadians and Pope Francis in Rome is being put off while everybody learns more about the Omicron variant of COVID-19, according to a joint release from three Indigenous organizations involved in the trip and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Pope Francis tells reporters Paris archbishop was hounded out by gossip
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News ServiceABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ROME -- Pope Francis told reporters he accepted the resignation of Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris because the archbishop's reputation had been destroyed, making it impossible for him to continue leading the French archdiocese.