The Supreme Court is set to consider whether or not Americans are permitted to possess AR-15 rifles and similar firearms.

For St. Nicholas of Tolentino, the Catholic imperative to pray for the dead was made very real to him when a deceased friend appeared to him asking for prayers.

The priest has been deemed “unsuitable for ministry” for the time being, the diocese said after an inquiry by a diocesan review board.

In a special rite, the women embraced a life of consecrated virginity for the sake of Christ and service to his Church.

“As citizens of this great country, we have been entrusted with a tremendous moral responsibility, and this is true most of all for you as our head of state, Mr. President,” Coakley said.

“You are not a lost generation; you are the ‘today of God,’” the pope’s representative told participants at the first-ever West African Youth Day in Accra on Tuesday.

The pontiff said people can feel less free to be themselves even as autonomy is increasingly treated as absolute.

The tiny European principality’s hereditary prince has announced he will block the measure, setting up a constitutional standoff.

Addressing pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square, the pope continued his catechetical cycle dedicated to the Second Vatican Council’s constitution Gaudium et Spes.

Hoped-for fruits of the effort include the renewal of a Christocentric faith through Marian mediation and a network of Marian shrines as “privileged spaces for the rebirth of hope.”