Notre Dame allows third-party coverage of contraceptives in health plans

Questions and confusion continue to swirl around the University of Notre Dame's decision to allow the third-party administrators of its health plans to go on providing morally objectionable services to university employees, even though Notre Dame no longer is required by the government to do so.
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Blessed Solanus lived out faith, hope, charity every day, says cardinal

A congregation of 66,000 people filled Ford Field, home of the NFL's Detroit Lions, which was transformed for the Mass beatifying Solanus Casey.
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Forgotten Catholics: French author speaks on single people, celibacy

Single people are the forgotten members of the Catholic Church, said a Catholic journalist who has developed expertise on this issue over the past 20 years.
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Forgotten Catholics: French author speaks on single people, celibacy

Single people are the forgotten members of the Catholic Church, said a Catholic journalist who has developed expertise on this issue over the past 20 years.
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USCCB president decries massive shooting at Texas Baptist church

The U.S. Catholic Church stands "in unity" with the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and the larger community after a shooting during Sunday services took the lives of at least 26 people and injured at least 20 others.
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Mass formally opens canonization cause for Black Elk

With the formal opening of his cause, Black Elk now has the title "servant of God."
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Priest resigns as consultant on doctrine after letter to pope

The Capuchin Franciscan priest is former executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs expressed loyalty to the pope but at the same time told the pope that "a chronic confusion seems to mark your pontificate."
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‘Horrendous attack weighs on all our hearts,’ says cardinal

The "horrendous act" by a driver in a pickup truck who mowed down pedestrians and bicyclists in New York late in the afternoon Oct. 31 "weighs on all of our hearts," said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Knights CEO praises plan for getting U.S. aid to persecuted Christians

Carl Anderson, CEO of the Knights of Columbus, praised the decision by the Trump administration to provide direct U.S. aid to persecuted Christians in the Middle East and route it through the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Bishops’ migration chairman asks for extension of immigration status

The U.S. government will consider in early November whether to extend for some inmigrants what's known as Temporary Protected Status or TPS.
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Catholic group will accept Scouts’ decision to allow girls to join

The leaders of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, which has its headquarters in the Dallas suburb of Irving, said they “accept and work with the new membership policy of the Boy Scouts of America” to admit girls.
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