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San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone walks through a gate to Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory school after students, teachers and supporters gathered for a vigil outside of St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. The Roman Catholic archbishop is getting pushback from some parents, students and teachers at parochial schools after unveiling faculty handbook language calling on Catholic teachers to lead their professional lives consistently with church teachings on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion and birth control. Non-Catholic teachers are asked not to publicly undermine the teachings. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Catholics supporting Archbishop Cordileone on school identity feel silenced, pressured

By Kevin Jones - Catholic News Agency

One of the dozens of cases awaiting decisions by the Supreme Court in the wake of Justice Antonin Scalia's death involves a Christian college that could be forced to provide contraceptive health care coverage to its employees. (Associated Press/File)

How art and technology are clearing up ‘miscontraceptions’ on women’s fertility

By Adelaide Mena - Catholic News Agency

Responding to an invitation from Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera to seek reconciliation with Christ during the season of Advent, nearly 5,000 Catholics stood in line for hours to receive the Sacrament of Confession. (Associated Press)

Seven challenges for the Mexican church and the family

Catholic News Agency

A runner jogs along Lake Michigan as ice forms on the shore Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, in Chicago. Temperatures have dipped to as low as -13 in parts of Illinois with wind chills forecast to fall to between 20 and 30 degrees below zero. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

CHRISTIANITY TODAY: The cure for loneliness

A Jordanian woman prays for Egyptian Christians who were killed in Libya, at the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. George for Coptic Orthodox Church, in Amman, Jordan. Wednesday, Feb. 18 2015. An Islamic State video released on 15 February claimed to show the extremist group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians abducted in Libya more than a month ago. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Coptic Catholics consecrate first church in Sinai

By Oliver Maksan - Catholic News Agency

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama reveals true self at prayer breakfast

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES