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Cardinal Gregory urges gathering’s participants to ‘work for greater justice’

“Time is never meant to be useless,” said Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington in his homily at the opening Mass this year’s Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, and he advised the gathering’s 800-plus registrants to “work for greater justice in our world.”

Paying down the debt

On a Saturday morning not long ago, I was giving a lesson on black history to a group of African-American boys, students in the Freedman Academy, an activity sponsored by my local chapter of the mentoring group 100 Black Men of America.

Catholics take part in 50th anniversary of King march

Louis Woodland was serving in Vietnam in 1966 when Martin Luther King Jr. led a march on Aug. 5 t...

Local groups benefit from CCHD grants

Each year, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development awards grants to projects and organization...

The poor bear the burden when environment is harmed

When Pope Francis released his encyclical "Laudato Si'" last month, he made the point that the da...

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