For only the third time in Church history, Pope Francis has convened an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the fall of 2014 to discuss "pastoral challenges of the family” that are expected to include issues relating to divorced and remarried Catholics.
New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond is mandating that by 2014-2015, all Catholic schools in the diocese must stop scheduling events on Sundays in order to allow families to reclaim this day for God and family.
According to news accounts filtering out of a besieged Christian village in Syria, a Christian man who was given the choice to convert to Islam or die chose the path of his Master and was slaughtered for the faith.
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois says today's Catholics must "adjust" to living in an environment of persecution similar to that suffered by Christians in the early Church and under communist rule.
Pope Francis is planning to consecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on October 13 while kneeling before the statue of Our Lady of the Rosary from Fatima which will be flown to Rome for the event.
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