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BOSTON – Churches around Boston will commemorate the National Day of Prayer May 5, which takes place annually on the first Thursday in May. Former president Ronald Reagan signed the law establishing the first Thursday in May as the National Day of Prayer in 1988. A decade later, President Bill Clinton
Syria
STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — The combat death of an American Navy SEAL in Iraq shows that despite recent gains against the Islamic State in Iraq, "this fight is far from over," U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday. Carter spoke at the outset of a closed-door meeting in
Abortion
Isn't it amazing how many inconsistencies are filtered through modern minds? For example, how is it that many college students decry the racist, even capitalist, backgrounds of some of their campus benefactors? Yet they give wide birth to others who held similar racist views in their time. Students
Faith
New York City, N.Y. (CNA) — (Editor's note: This article includes explicit descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised.) The stories were graphic, brutal and raw.
White House
Washington D.C. (CNA/EWTN News) — The Obama administration's new rule for faith-based partnerships has drawn various reactions: one observer warned they could cause problems for partnering religious groups, while another said the action also strengthens these groups' protections against government abuse. H. James Towey, the president
Faith
Vatican City (CNA/EWTN News) — Pope Francis on Sunday decried the resurgence of violence in Syria in recent days, especially in Aleppo, and renewed the call to bring about peace through dialogue. "I receive with deep sorrow the tragic news coming from Syria, about the spiral of violence that
Massachusetts
"So why do you think people find the choice you've made to be such a novelty, even a kind of scandal?" "I think, it's because this is a hidden life," Brother John Braught says, "Many people don't even know
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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
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