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- Update: Lebanon's Catholic leaders seek help; here's where you can donate
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Aziz Taher, Reuters By BEIRUT (CNS) -- As Lebanon's Catholic leaders appealed for help for their country, international and U.S. organizations appealed for donations for Beirut...
- Priest's 100-mile bike ride raises COVID-19 aid for parish -- and hope
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Brooklyn By Ian Alvano WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father Christopher Heanue started his morning July 27 by celebrating Mass at 5 a.m. and then took off on a 100-mile...
- Weapons must be set aside for peace to flourish, pope says
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Yuriko Nakao, Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For peace to flourish, weapons of war must be set aside, especially nuclear weapons that can obliterate entire cities and...
- Vatican says baptisms that used a modified formula are not valid
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Changing the words of the formula for baptism render the sacrament invalid, said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
- Update: John Hume, who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland, dies at 83
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul McErlane, Reuters By Michael Kelly DUBLIN (CNS) -- Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, has hailed political leader John Hume as a "paragon of peace"...
- Update: Catholic leaders call for prayers, help after massive Beirut blasts
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Mohamed Azakir, Reuters By Dale Gavlak AMMAN, Jordan (CNS) -- Lebanese were reeling after a massive explosion at Beirut's port destroyed homes, businesses and livelihoods across the...
National Catholic Register
- US Bishops Tell Congress: Help Catholic Schools to Help At-Risk Families
  
  By Catholic News Agency | WASHINGTON — Several leading U.S. Catholic cardinals and bishops urged congressional leaders to provide emergency private school tuition aid to low-middle income...
- State Dept. Commission Cites Religious Freedom as ‘Foremost’ Among Rights
  
  By Lauretta Brown | WASHINGTON — The Commission on Unalienable Rights, an advisory committee formed last year to provide the U.S. State Department with advice that grounds an understanding of human...
- The Presence That Casts Out Fear
  
  By Sister Mary Madeline Todd | Sunday, Aug. 9, is the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 1 Kings 19:9, 11-13; Psalm 85: 9, 10, 11-14; Romans 9: 1-5; Matthew 14:22-33. What is worse...
- Cancel, Conform, Control: Survivors of Communism Discuss US Culture
  
  By Susan Klemond | The destruction and removal of statues around the country this summer isn’t new to Carlos Eire, who as a 10-year-old, watched members of the Castro regime use sledgehammers to...
- Joe Biden Talks Catholic Faith After President Trump Says Former VP is ‘Against God’
  
  By Catholic News Agency | WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday spoke about his Catholic faith, in response to comments from President Donald Trump that a Biden presidency would “hurt...
- Cardinal Pell to Speak at Virtual Napa Institute Conference
  
  By Catholic News Agency | WASHINGTON — The Napa Institute has announced an online schedule for its annual conference in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The program includes remarks from...