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- Christ is Risen, So Why is There a Crucifix in Every Church?
  
  By Matt D’Antuono | One of the many accusations made against the Catholic Church is that we should not have crucifixes hanging all over the place. Jesus rose from the dead. The work is done. The...
Catholic News Service
- Update: Bishop 'profoundly saddened' by deaths, damage from Midwest storms
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Carlo Allegri, Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' domestic policy committee May 24 called for "prayers for the victims and their grieving families...
- Update: Students plan to raise nuclear weapon dangers in fall return to campuses
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) -- At the start of his senior year at The Catholic University of America last fall, Tim Jones never thought he'd be joining a...
- Family portraits, mutual support part of Caritas global assembly
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert Duncan By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle added a photo of his "Lolo Kim" to a mosaic of migrants, world leaders and...
News from the Vatican
- Abortion never a solution for unborn children with disorders, pope insists
  
  Abortion is never a solution even when the unborn child is suffering from pathological disorders, because children in the womb are “small patients" and medicine knows how to provide patient care,
- From Venezuela to Syria, the Church’s charities are front and center
  
  Despite its flaws, the Catholic Church is a remarkable intelligence network, one with personnel always front and center in countries marred by man-made or natural crises.
- Letter and spirit: Using universal law to guide local churches on abuse
  
  Pope Francis's latest effort to help the Catholic Church safeguard its members from abuse and hold its leaders accountable came in the form of a new universal law, "Vos estis lux mundi"...