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Archbishop Cordileone blesses sacramental oils
Blessing incarcerated and their families
A Down’s baby and a priest brother’s pro-life feminism
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‘Cry out,’ Pope Francis tells young people Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
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Students protest gun violence
Students of San Francisco’s St. Philip the Apostle School carried 17 individual candles into a prayer service they organized March 14 memorializing the victims of last month’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. St. Philip was one of nearly a dozen Catholic schools in the archdiocese that organized prayer-centered events on the same day that students across the country walked out of class in protest of gun violence. See Page 6 for more photos.
The great good of natural family planning This is the third installment in a series on the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical “Humanae Vitae.”
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ngaged couples face a barrage of decisions. Beyond the selection of the dress, cake and sparkling wine, there are party favors and invitations, not to mention the photographer and the honeymoon. Some decisions, of course, warrant more thought, discussion and prayer; this includes decisions about family planning. When considering their options, couples should be sure to learn about natural family planning. There are several methods of NFP but all of them teach the couple to identify the fertile time in deacon bill the wife’s cycle, empowerturrentine ing the couple to postpone pregnancy by abstaining during the fertile time or to seek pregnancy by using the fertile time. NFP has many advantages over other forms of
VATICAN CITY – Celebrating Palm Sunday Mass with thousands of young people, Pope Francis urged them to continue singing and shouting “hosanna” in the world, proclaiming the lordship of Jesus and following his example of outreach to the poor and suffering. The crowd that shouted “hosanna” as Jesus entered Jerusalem included all those for whom Jesus was a source of joy, those he healed and forgave, and those he welcomed after they had been excluded from society, the pope said in his homily March 25. But others were irritated by Jesus and tried to silence his followers, the pope said. In the same way, people today will try to silence young people who continue to follow Jesus, because “a joyful young person is hard to manipulate.” “There are many ways to silence young people and make them invisible,” the pope said. There are “many ways to anesthetize them, to make them keep quiet, ask nothing, question nothing. There are many ways to sedate them, to keep them from getting involved, to make their dreams flat and dreary, petty and plaintive.” Pope Francis asked the young people “not to keep quiet. Even if others keep quiet, if we older people
family planning. When properly used, it is as effective in delaying pregnancy as hormonal contraception, without the side effects. It is also effective in see ‘cry out’, page 17 helping couples conceive when they desire a baby, and aids couples who struggle with infertility to identify the underlying causes so they can conceive naturally. It is environmentally responsible, very inexpensive and surprisingly simple to learn. It creates no artificial barriers between husband and wife but fosters communication and mutual respect. Couples who use NFP often report higher marital satisfaction, resulting in a significantly lower divorce rate. Ultimately, however, NFP is not merely one option among others but it is the choice that aligns Cindy Wooden with God’s beautiful plan for marriage and it thus Catholic News Service provides benefits of a whole different order. Pope St. John Paul II has taught that God created huVATICAN CITY – Young people want to know they mans with bodies so that we can use them to make are valued members of the Catholic Church and that his invisible love visible and tangible in this matetheir questions and struggles are taken seriously rial world. We do this in many ways but marriage enough that someone will spend time with them disis a paradigm, a shining example, of sacramental cussing issues rather than simply repeating “prefabriA personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. love; that is, love which uses physical things to excated” responses, said delegates to a meeting in Rome.
Young adults ask church to welcome, listen, involve them
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