Read more about the article A better future: U.S. young adults join peers brainstorming on economy
Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, participates in the "Economy of Francesco" virtual meeting in this screen capture from YouTube Nov. 19, 2020. The meeting is a project of Pope Francis, who has called for a different kind of economy that better respects humanity and nature. The pope is scheduled to address the meeting Nov. 21. (CNS photo)

A better future: U.S. young adults join peers brainstorming on economy

Participants discuss pope’s call for "a different kind of economy: one that brings life not death, one that is inclusive and not exclusive”

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Read more about the article Mary shows how to turn fear into invitation to hear God’s call, pope says
Pope Francis leads his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 18, 2020. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Mary shows how to turn fear into invitation to hear God’s call, pope says

Pray like Mary, “in an attitude of openness with a heart open to God,” the pope said Nov. 18 during his weekly general audience.

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Read more about the article ‘It has been completely disastrous’: second hurricane hits Nicaragua
Residents stand amid debris outside homes in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, Nov. 17, 2020, in the aftermath of Hurricane Iota. The Category 4 storm hit the coast of Nicaragua near the border of Honduras Nov. 16, causing storm surges and flooding and further damaging buildings already wrecked by Hurricane Eta. (CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)

‘It has been completely disastrous’: second hurricane hits Nicaragua

Vulnerable communities have been devastated by loss of homes and crops

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Read more about the article Bishops, in virtual meeting, focus on McCarrick report, pandemic, racism
Bishop J. Mark Spalding takes part in the November meeting of the USCCB over an internet based connection from his desk in the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville, TN on Monday, 16 November 2020. Bishops are participating in the Fall meeting by virtual connections because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bishops, in virtual meeting, focus on McCarrick report, pandemic, racism

"Our mission is to heal the world,” Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio to the United States, told the bishops.

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Read more about the article In gathering for U.S. bishops like no other, annual meeting goes online
Bishop J. Mark Spalding takes part in the November meeting of the USCCB over an internet based connection from his desk in the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville, TN on Monday, 16 November 2020. Bishops are participating in the Fall meeting by virtual connections because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In gathering for U.S. bishops like no other, annual meeting goes online

Bishops will meet virtually Nov. 16-17, and are expected to discuss McCarrick report, youth protection, pastoral responses to COVID-19 pandemic and racism

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Read more about the article Community celebrates Blue Ribbon award for Holy Rosary Academy
Holy Rosary Academy celebrated its recent designation by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School with the community on Friday, Nov. 13. The festivities included the reading of congratulatory proclamations, resoultions and letters from the State House of Representatives, the Metro Council and Nashville Mayor John Cooper's office. Terry Grewe, a 1977 graduate of Holy Rosary Academy and a successful businessman in St. Louis, Missouri, spoke to the students who were socially distanced in the school parking lot, urging them to keep Jesus at the center of their lives. Bishop J. Mark Spalding greets students before the event.

Community celebrates Blue Ribbon award for Holy Rosary Academy

Holy Rosary Academy celebrated its recent designation by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School with the community on Friday, Nov. 13. The festivities included the reading…

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