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Los Angeles parish's food pantry helps build community

Image of LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS MOVE THROUGH GROCERY LINE AT CALIFORNIA PANTRY - Low-income clients move through the grocery line at St. Margaret Mary Alacocque Church food pantry in the Los Angeles suburb of Lomita. The food tables in the parish hall are staffed by church volunteers who prepare all week for the event, which provide s groceries for some 250 families. St. Margaret Mary is a largely middle-class, ethnically diverse parish amid neighborhoods of tidy homes. Over its 70 years, it has developed a reputation for aggressively serving the poor. (CNS photo/Bill Stephens)

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A young Hispanic woman edged her shopping cart through the food pantry line at St. Margaret Mary Alacocque Church, ... continue reading

Freed Catholic death row inmate devotes life to end death penalty

Image of CATHOLIC WRONGLY CONVICTED OF MURDER GESTURES – Kirk Bloodsworth, who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of a 9-year-old Rosedale, Md., girl in 1985, gestures during an interview at his home in Cambridge, Md., in late January. Bloodsworth, who became a Catholic while on death row in Maryland, was exonerated by DNA evidence in 1993. Since then he has devoted his life to ending the death penalty. (Catholic Review)

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (Catholic Review) – If anyone has experienced sheer terror, it’s Kirk Bloodsworth. Tried and found guilty of the brutal ... continue reading

Honing 40/40 vision - Live Lent’s 40 days with 40 faith-building ways

Image of FILE PHOTO OF CROSS DRAPED IN PURPLE OUTSIDE CHURCH DURING LENT - A cloudy evening sky provides the backdrop for a cross outside St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y., during Lent last April. The penitential season, which begins with Ash Wednesday, calls Christians to prayer, fasting, repentance and charity. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic)

COLCHESTER, Vt. (Catholic Online) – The season of Lent brings to mind thoughts of reflection, fasting and “giving up.” Lent can also be ... continue reading

From slavery to being the first black priest

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SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (Ignatius Press) – Fr. Augustine Tolton (1854-1897) was the first black priest in the United States. Born into a black ... continue reading

Confession seen to offer faithful Catholics key tools to reject sin

Image of PRIEST HEARS CONFESSION – In this demonstration at St. Augustine Church in North Little Rock Feb. 6, Father Warren Harvey shows how a priest becomes Christ’s “hands, feet and voice” during confession. (Photo Tara Little/Arkansas Catholic)

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Arkansas Catholic) – For 38-year-old Eduardo Martinez, the sacrament of reconciliation is the gift of time with his ... continue reading

Fort Smith activists say peace and justice are possible

Image of WEEKLY WITNESS FOR PEACE - Sisters Madeline Clifton, Rosalie Ruesewald, Ann Michele Raley and Elise Forst demonstrate against the war in Iraq at Creekmore Park in January.

FORT SMITH, Ark. (Arkansas Catholic) – Each Sunday, Benedictine sisters from St. Scholastica Monastery join other River Valley area ... continue reading

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Black Catholic priest-historian retraces his own history

Image of BENEDICTINE FATHER CYPRIAN DAVIS Benedictine Father Cyprian Davis, a leading scholar on the history of black American Catholics, is the winner of this year's Marianist Award from the University of Dayton, Ohio. Father Davis is pictured in an undated file photo. (CNS Photo)

WASHINGTON (CNS) – Benedictine Father Cyprian Davis, one of the leading historians of the black Catholic experience in the United States, ... continue reading

'Faith changed my life, keeps me on track,' Catholic pop star says

Image of '50s POP STAR DION DIMUCCI – Dion DiMucci, star of the 1950s pop group Dion & the Belmonts, a parishioner of St. Jude Church in Boca Raton, Fla., says his faith has changed his life. The 67-year-old rocker, who went solo in the '60s, is now up for a Grammy for his latest album,

BOCA RATON, Fla. (CNS/The Florida Catholic) – Fame brought drugs and the fast life for many pop stars decades ago, but for the singer ... continue reading

Youth activist expands message to reach adults

Image of ACTIVIST PICTURED WITH KENYAN BOY - Craig Kielburger, the longtime youth activist who has worked to improve conditions for young people around the world, poses with a Kenyan boy in 2006. (CNS Photo)

WASHINGTON (CNS) – Craig Kielburger, the longtime youth activist who has worked to improve conditions for young people around the world, ... continue reading

Musicians, people in pews differ on what encourages singing in church

Image of WORSHIPPERS SING DURING MASS AT NEW YORK CHURCH - Worshippers sing during Mass at SS. Cyril and Methodius Church in Deer Park, N.Y., in this 2006 file photo. People in Catholic music ministry and Catholics in the pews hold slightly different opinions on what helps congregations to sing, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic)

WASHINGTON (CNS) – People in Catholic music ministry and Catholics in the pews hold slightly different opinions on what helps ... continue reading

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