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Kelley Orr, a social worker and mother of four sons, has struggled with depression for years. “I don’t hide it,” Orr said. “I pray and I reach out to friends.”

For many Catholic married couples, the training they received for their vocation started and ended with the required marriage preparation classes they took as engaged couples.

Susan Moné, a parishioner at Resurrection Parish in Tempe, is now one of nine national directors for the Catholic Daughters of the Americas.

TIRANA, Albania (CNS) — Two survivors of Albania's communist crackdown against the church brought Pope Francis tears with their stories during a vespers service in Tirana's cathedral Sept. 21. "To hear a martyr talk about his own martyrdom is intense," the pope told journalists on the papal plane back to Rome the same evening.

Pope Francis has named Bishop Blase J. Cupich of Spokane, Washington, as archbishop of Chicago, succeeding Cardinal Francis E. George, who has headed the archdiocese since 1997.

An anonymous St. Gabriel parishioner is being dubbed an “angel” for her offer to help fund the future of Annunciation Catholic School. The church and school share a Cave Creek campus that has added one classroom each year since it opened in 2009.

Bishop Michael C. Barber was able to do what general manager Billy Beane could not: Call Grant Desme to Oakland.

With the election just six weeks away, people from throughout the Diocese of Phoenix gathered for a Mass and legislative seminar Sept. 6 aimed at equipping them to become faithful Catholics in the public square.

JERUSALEM (CNS) — Several U.S. Catholic bishops are returning from a nine-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land where they met with Israeli and Palestinian religious and political leaders, spent time meeting local residents and prayed at holy sites. One of them never expected to see such destruction and suffering.

Deep in the heart of parish work is the faith formation of children through religious education programs. Thousands of children throughout the Diocese of...