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U.S. President Donald Trump joins Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Chris Coons, D-Del., in prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington Feb. 7, 2019. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)

Trump defends rights of faith-based adoption agencies at prayer breakfast

Catholic News Service
February 8, 2019
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Touting efforts to protect religious freedom, President Donald Trump told the National Prayer Breakfast that his administration would defend the right of faith-based adoption agencies to place children in families based on firmly held religious beliefs.

Archbishop Lori’s Talk: “Interior and Exterior Freedom”; St. Thomas More University

Archbishop William E. Lori
February 7, 2019
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Over time, I have come to see how easily discussions of religious freedom can start off on the wrong foot. We often wade into controversies over specific threats to religious freedom without sufficiently reflecting on what freedom itself is and on how the exercise of our freedoms are to engage and influence the culture in which we are immersed.

Rahsaan Edwards (left), the veteran point guard for the St. Maria Goretti basketball team, commutes to Hagerstown from his home in Charles Town, W.Va. Sean Clem (right), a senior cross country runner and lacrosse player who is a competitive alpine skier, crosses the Blue Ridge from his home in Frederick every school day to attend Gorretti. (Courtesy St. Maria Goretti High School)

Seniors go the distance to attend St. Maria Goretti in Hagerstown

Paul McMullen
February 7, 2019
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Two senior athletes at St. Maria Goretti High School in Hagerstown exemplify the regional nature of the institution.

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, responds to a question during a conference on "Healing the Breach of Trust: The Role of the Laity in Responding to the Crisis" Feb. 6, 2019, at The Catholic University of America in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Head of U.S. bishops says new ‘season’ could come after abuse crisis

Rhina Guidos
February 7, 2019
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The laity may be angry over the most recent revelations of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, but bishops, particularly younger ones, share in that anger and “want to move with real force” toward solutions and it could yield a new season for the church, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Feb. 6.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., look on as President Donald Trump delivers his second State of the Union address Feb. 5, 2019, at the Capitol in Washington. During his speech Trump urged Congress to pass legislation that bans late-term abortion. (CNS photo/Doug Mills, pool via Reuters)

Archbishop Naumann urges Senate to OK bill to protect babies who survive abortion

Julie Asher
February 6, 2019
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It is “unconscionable” that the U.S. Senate failed to “unanimously declare to the nation that infanticide is objectively wrong,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe, superior general of the Jesuits from 1965 to 1983, is pictured in an undated photo. The sainthood cause for Father Arrupe was formally opened in Rome at the Basilica of St. John Lateran Feb. 5, 2019, the 28th anniversary of his death. (CNS photo/courtesy Jesuits Global)

Jesuit Father Arrupe’s sainthood cause officially opens in Rome

Carol Glatz
February 6, 2019
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The sainthood cause of Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe was formally opened in Rome at the Basilica of St. John Lateran Feb. 5, the 28th anniversary of Father Arrupe’s death.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seen during a Midnight Mass at St Patrick's Cathedral Dec. 25, 2014, in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of Albany, N.Y., urged Cuomo to stop the "Death Star" as he called a bill in the state Legislature to expand current state law on abortion. On Jan. 22, the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe decision legalizing abortion nationwide, the Legislature passed the Reproductive Health Act and Cuomo, a Catholic, signed it into law. (CNS photo/Carlo Allegri, Reuters)

Building a wall against life

Richard Doerflinger
February 5, 2019
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In what Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls a “historic victory for New Yorkers,” New York has passed what may be the nation’s most extreme and irresponsible abortion law.

A worker with Catholic Relief Services talks to a man as he stands amid the rubble of his home destroyed during the Gaza-Israeli conflict in 2014. CRS recently cut its services to needy people in the Gaza Strip by closing a U.S. government-funded program because of the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act. This was the second CRS program in Gaza affected the U.S. government decisions in recent months. (CNS photo/Shareef Sarhan, for Catholic Relief Services)

For second time in months, CRS forced to cut funding to Gaza

Judith Sudilovksy
February 5, 2019
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Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services cut its services to needy people in the Gaza Strip by closing a U.S. government-funded program because of the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act.

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