• Catholic hospital’s therapy dogs program provides many happy tales
    Catholic hospital’s therapy dogs program provides many happy tales
    April 7, 2022
    by Katie Peterson, Catholic News Service
    MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (CNS) — “She’s like my little sister,” Renee Hopper said of Judy, a Goldador dog, as they sat in the lobby of Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro.
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  • Wahlberg: Real-life Father Stu has him ‘continuing to carry on his message’
    Wahlberg: Real-life Father Stu has him ‘continuing to carry on his message’
    April 7, 2022
    by Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service
    WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic actor Mark Wahlberg, who plays the title role in the upcoming movie “Father Stu,” said the real-life Montana priest is “having me continuing to carry on his message.”
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  • How a saint became part of the tax code, forever changing U.S. philanthropy
    How a saint became part of the tax code, forever changing U.S. philanthropy
    April 1, 2022
    by Tim Swift, Catholic News Service
    This tax season, Americans have an unexpected figure to thank for one of their most-used deductions. She wasn’t an accountant, a lawyer or even a politician, but an actual saint.
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  • U.S. Bishop chairmen on Supreme Court’s ruling in Ramirez v. Collier
    April 1, 2022
    by USCCB
    WASHINGTON - On March 23, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 8-1 in favor of John Ramirez, a death row inmate, in his challenge to the State of Texas’s denial of his request that his pastor audibly pray and lay hands on him as the state executes him.
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  • With ‘cradleboard,’ Indigenous ask pope to ponder fate of their children
    With ‘cradleboard,’ Indigenous ask pope to ponder fate of their children
    April 1, 2022
    by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
    VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Members of Canada’s Assembly of First Nations gave Pope Francis a “cradleboard,” a traditional baby carrier, and asked him to keep it overnight as he reflected on what happened to Indigenous children who were sent to residential schools and, particularly, to those who never made it home again.
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