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The worldwide prayer campaign to end abortion, 40 Days for Life, is winding down and local organizers are hoping for a big turnout at the closing events April 11-12.

The Philippines' newest cardinal was among 1,000 guests who witnessed the peace agreement between the government and the country's largest Muslim rebel group.

In their first encounter, Pope Francis received U.S. President Barack Obama at the Vatican March 27 for a discussion that touched on several areas of tension between the Catholic Church and the White House, including religious freedom and medical ethics.

Jesuit Father William R. Stoeger, a staff scientist for the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson and a long-time member of Brophy College Preparatory’s Board of Trustees, died March 24 after a struggle with cancer. He was 70 and had been a member of the Society of Jesus for 52 years.

The cold, lifeless concrete walls, barbed-wire fences and heavy, steel doors of prison aren’t strong enough to withstand the penetration of love.

Pope Francis received U.S. President Barack Obama at the Vatican March 27. In what was their first encounter, the two leaders spoke in private for more than 50 minutes, an extraordinarily long time for such a meeting.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia underscored the urgency of removing the contraception mandate from the U.S. health care law, said he looked forward to more debate about church practice on marriage, and credited Pope Francis with teaching Catholics that they must preach the Gospel before attempting to transmit the church's moral teachings.

The Catholic Church touches all the senses when it celebrates the Rite of Election with those preparing to join the universal Church next month at the Easter Vigil.

The snowy, wet concrete and throng of reporters didn't stop Father Frank Pavone and the Rev. Patrick Mahoney from kneeling down and praying in front of the Supreme Court the morning of March 25.

Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ, a renowned scholar, author and Catholic leader, will speak at an April 10 luncheon at Mount Claret Retreat Center on behalf of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.