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Five Questions for Eleanor McCullen: Sidewalk Counselor and Pro-Life Advocate

For more than 20 years, Eleanor McCullen has advocated for life outside of abortion facilities in Massachusetts. She's not a sign-waving protester. McCullen works as a sidewalk counselor, approaching women entering abortion facilities and trying to understand their difficult position. After a few minutes of discussion, she gently

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Seaport chapel reborn as face of South Boston evolves

BOSTON – Decades ago, the little maritime chapel in South Boston's Seaport District provided a haven for weary sailors and fishermen docked along the waterfront. But as the economy shifted, so did the demographics of the chapel's parish, though not its original purpose. During a dedication ceremony

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Elder care provider looks to clients’ spiritual needs

BOSTON – Mary Roque and Dr. Jane Driver have a lot in common. The two friends both work in senior care, Roque as a lawyer specializing in elder law and Driver as an oncologist and geriatrician. Both also share the Roman Catholic faith and last year found themselves bothered by a

Massachusetts

Catholic Church grapples with diversity in pews

BOSTON – As with many U.S. religious institutions, the traditional European-American Catholic demographic is graying in New England. An emerging face increasingly represents the American Catholic nationwide – and is slowly becoming the visage of the typical Massachusetts Catholic, too: the millennial Latino. But while Hispanics make up 40 percent of

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Biden, Boehner receive high Catholic honor

Vice President Joseph Biden stood at the University of Notre Dame's commencement ceremony on Sunday (May 15) with a medal signifying American Catholicism's highest honor slung on a blue velvet rope around his neck. The longtime Democrat turned and looked to former Speaker of the House

Massachusetts

Gordon College’s fundamental right to be different

Gordon College is once again under fire for being a self-consciously Christian college. Cultural elites in Massachusetts insist that Gordon should abandon its moral ideals and that members of the college community should conform to the moral sameness that pervades other campuses. If those elites would pay closer attention to

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Victims of Islamic State horrors appeal for intervention

NEW YORK – The Rev. Douglas Al-Bazi, a Chaldean Catholic Church parish priest from Erbil, Iraq, took the podium at the United Nations last week to share his experiences while held captive by Islamic State, the horrors he witnessed, and to appeal for help. "Friends, I am a priest. I

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Media ignore the big issues, focus on the trivial

This week, at a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City for Catholic high school seniors, I heard a student speak eloquently about faith being the greatest of all virtues. We then heard Cardinal Dolan in his homily talk about the