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World AIDS day: A time to remember the harsh reality of this disease

Image of THE CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND: Sizakele Keswa, 13, South Africa, holds the only picture of her deceased mother. This photograph is a part of a multimedia exhibit featuring creative works that capture life though the eyes of orphans and other children left vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. A glimpse of the exhibit and tour schedule can be found at
<a href=http://www.the children left behind.org/index.cfm target=_blank>www.thechildrenleft behind.org/index.cfm</a>
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BALTIMORE, Md. (CRS) – On December 1, 2006, Catholic Relief Services commemorated the lives of people living with HIV around the world, ... continue reading


Barbados native, worldwide volunteer

Image of RHODES SCHOLAR Saint Michael’s college senior Jamila Headley wins a coveted Rhodes Scholarship. (Photo/SMC)

COLCHESTER, Vt. (St. Michael’s College) – Jamila Headley, a Saint Michael's College senior political science major and global studies ... continue reading



Islands of loneliness – Technology, work make Americans more isolated

HUNTINGTON, Ind. (Our Sunday Visitor) – An ever-expanding inventory of high-tech gadgets has turned our world into a "global village," ... continue reading


Saints connected to health

Image of PATRON SAINTS COVER THE HEALTH SPECTRUM: A modern-day saint, Maximilian Kolbe, got his health-related patronage from the mode of his martyrdom.

(CNS) – Catholics know that Luke, the doctor-cum-evangelist, is the patron saint of physicians and that a prayer to St. Blaise might ... continue reading


Bishop urges West Virginians to promote healing of body, mind, spirit

WHEELING, W.Va. (CNS) – In the first pastoral letter of his episcopacy, Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston called for an ... continue reading


Chicago auxiliary bishop calls for more common bonds among Africans

Image of WOMAN SINGS DURING AFRICAN CELEBRATION AT WASHINGTON SHRINE: Julian Kiganda sings as she participates in a liturgical dance at a Mass during the first African National Eucharistic Congress at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Sept. 2. Bishop Augustine Shao of Zanzibar, Tanzania, was the celebrant. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

WASHINGTON, D.C.(CNS) – In calling for more common bonds among Africans during the first African National Eucharistic Congress in the ... continue reading



Creative ways to pray at work

Image of PRAYER REMINDER: Leave a message to pray or a prayer on your computer and then take time to pray during the work day.
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(Catholic Press Association) Most people arenÂ’t going to argue the Law of Gravity even though none of us have ever actually seen ... continue reading


Catholic Daughters Camp = Friends, faith and fun

Image of YOUNG PEOPLE GATHER AT CATHOLIC CAMP - More than 100 campers at the Catholic Daughters of American in Colchester, Vt., share a

COLCHESTER, Vt. (Catholic Online) – Youth from across the state of Vermont came together to carry on the tradition of the Catholic ... continue reading


The Healing Touch of Mary

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(Catholic Online)- Photographer Cheri Lomonte began this book project dedicated to Mary by photographing pictures of the Madonna. Then, ... continue reading


Commonweal Magazine: Cosmically unfair or tied to love? Priest explores point of suffering

Image of CHILD SITS NEXT TO ILL MOTHER - One of her children sits next to an ailing Lydia Kathebwe, 31, infected with HIV, in the Zamba district of Malawi in this photo taken in late May. Father John Garvey explores the issue of suffering, asking whether God can be all powerful and all good and the world be a place of much misery. (CNS/The Catholic Register)

NEW YORK (Commonweal Magazine) – I was at a wake for the mother of a parishioner when a boy, maybe 10 or 11, asked, “I have a question: ... continue reading


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