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WASHINGTON, D.C., January 28, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News)—About 10 percent of those who took perpetual religious vows in the United States in 2013 said that educational debt delayed their application to religious orders or institutes, a new survey says.

Live video: four Redemptorists are ordained priests

By Adelaide Mena WASHINGTON, D.C., January 23, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News)–Catholics in the pro-life movement must “evangelize with beauty and with joy” as they seek to offer compassionate aid to women facing difficult pregnancies, said Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston.

By Adelaide Mena WASHINGTON, D.C., January 21, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News)–The annual March for Life plays a foundational role in the Church’s work of promoting human dignity at all stages of development, said a member of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life office.

NEW YORK CITY, January 21, 2014 (CNA)—Catholics have joined with members of other faiths to support the Holy See’s permanent observer status at the United Nations, defending against a group of abortion proponents seeking to oust the body from the international organization.

By Adelaide Mena WASHINGTON, D.C., January 17 (CNA/EWTN News)—The Supreme Court will rule this year on a case involving “buffer zones” outside abortion clinics, but it has declined to hear a case on state abortion bans after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 14, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News)—The editors of USA Today have urged the Obama administration to stop trying to require the Little Sisters of the Poor to abide by the federal contraception mandate in violation of their religious beliefs.

Redemptorist missionary Rev. Vincent John Douglass died quietly in his sleep on January 10, 2014, at St. Alphonsus Villa in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. He was 77 years old. Father Douglass and his twin brother were born on August 2, 1936.

Redemptorist missionary Rev. Vincent John Douglass died quietly in his sleep on January 10, 2014, at St. Alphonsus Villa in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. He was 77 years old. Father Douglass and his twin brother were born on August 2, 1936.