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A huge factor in this 26-year-old two-time Paralympian's success: "my brother and sisters treated me like everyone else," Siemann said. "They made no exception for my disability."

BOSTON (CNA) — In an online video, actor Mark Wahlberg said that he will be praying for vocations to the priesthood, which he deeply values because of the role that priests have played in his own life.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic and Greek Orthodox clergy hope to continue on a path of collaboration between their two Churches with the momentum from the June 22 enthronement of Archbishop Elpidophoros of America.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Following the news Dr. Leana Wen was fired by Planned Parenthood as its president, several pro-life leaders remarked that the organization was upset the physician had emphasized the need to expand Planned Parenthood services beyond abortion.

The church's teaching on the value and inviolability of every human life remains an indispensable source of truth for all people," Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann said.

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — The anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland, is “a solemn and mournful opportunity to reflect upon man’s capacity for evil,” said Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.

Religions don't have a special "recipe" to solve world problems of peace, hunger, poverty and other crises, Pope Francis said, "but we have a great resource," the treasure of prayer.

MONTERREY, Mexico (CNS) — With his priestly robes and clean-cut appearance, Fr. Jose Luis Guerra hardly looks the part of a gangster. Yet the recently ordained priest hits the streets of a scruffy suburb of this northern Mexican city with his own posse, the Gang of Christ, which takes catechism classes and Christ’s witness out of the parish and into a peripheral place occupied by young men on the margins of society.

The tremor has claimed more than 240 lives so far — including at least 20 children trapped in a collapsed school.

Journalists covering Pope Francis' visit in Santiago, Chile, added not one, but two tales to their oral history of papal-trip misadventures.