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Word on Fire
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Catholic News Service
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Rome Reports
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Whispers in the Loggia
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Signed on New Year's Day and given to the US bishops late last night, below is the English text of the Pope's letter to the bench on the opening of its retreat amid the abuse crisis at Chicago's...
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Before all else, a Blessed New Year to one and all – hope you've had a great rest; Lord knows some of us could use a good bit more.... Either way, here we go again. * * * Eight decades...
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HOMILY OF POPE FRANCIS THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD THE MASS IN THE HOLY NIGHT SAINT PETER'S BASILICA 24 DECEMBER 2018 Joseph with Mary his spouse, went up “to the city of David called Bethlehem” (Lk 2:4)
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More than at any other point in our lifetimes, this Church has needed the Light of a Child to guide – and indeed, redeem – it... ...and not soon enough, that's the Coming we celebrate tonight. To one...
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In terms of policy, Christmas at the Vatican is a tale of two speeches – the season's end in early January brings the annual address to the Holy See's accredited diplomats long known as "The...
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Precisely six months into the US church’s latest full-on storm of abuse revelations, the scandals have claimed a fourth American prelate – this time, in the nation’s largest diocese. At Roman Noon...
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In a word, it is epochal – for the first time anywhere, a civil court has found a cardinal guilty of sexual abuse. Capping an 18-month process that predated the wider church's re-immersion in the...
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Catholic News Service
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IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Lauren Desberg By Carl Peters CAMDEN, N.J. (CNS) -- In recent months, violinist Alana Youssefian has performed at New York City's Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Yale...
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IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a second letter issued in mid-January about what he knew and didn't regarding abuse allegations involving his predecessor, Cardinal...
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IMAGE: CNS photos/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- At the upcoming meeting on protecting minors, Pope Francis wants leaders of the world's bishops' conferences to clearly understand...
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IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- To pray well, people need to have the heart of a child -- a child who feels safe and loved in a father's tender embrace, Pope Francis said...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Mazur via catholicnews.org.uk By Judith Sudilovsky JERUSALEM (CNS) -- Visiting with Christian communities in northern Israel and the northern Palestinian Territories has...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/FBI handout via Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) -- For nearly three months, parishioners at St. Peter Catholic Church in Cameron, Wisconsin, were praying for the safe...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Marking the Pontifical Academy for Life's 25th anniversary, Pope Francis encouraged the research and advisory body to promote human...
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National Catholic Register
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By Angelo Stagnaro | “I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes (to the nations).” —Pope John Paul II The task...
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By John Grondelski | Virginia’s General Assembly—its Legislature—convened Jan. 9 for its 30-day 2019 session. Catholics in the United States should be concerned. Why? There is a powerful push in the...
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By Matthew Archbold | Catholicism is always countercultural. As evidence of this, my children's Catholic grammar school is running a dodgeball tournament as part of Catholic Schools Week. Let's face...
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By Edward Pentin | VATICAN CITY — Next month’s Vatican summit of bishops on clerical sex abuse will include a penitential liturgy as well as opportunities for discussion and prayer aimed at helping...
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By Msgr. Charles Pope | Note: I write this post with a certain degree of humor. I admit to a certain glee at the thought of locking our leaders in and gradually reducing their food supply until they...
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By Kathy Schiffer | Temperance societies – social organizations which opposed drinking and drunkenness – were a powerful force in America by the late 19th century. In the early years of our nation's..
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By Catholic News Agency | A new poll shows that while most Americans identify themselves as “pro-choice,” the vast majority of the same group support increased restrictions on abortion. The poll...
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News from the Vatican
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A few decades of respectful Catholic-Jewish dialogue pale in comparison to "19 centuries of Christian anti-Judaism," Pope Francis said, so Catholics must continue to ask forgiveness and...
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Members of the pope's Study Commission on the Women's Diaconate spoke publicly for the first time on Tuesday at Fordham University.
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God the Father will always be there for his beloved children, Pope Francis said Wednesday, with a reminder that the unconditional love of God is not limited by our own sense of guilt or unworthiness.
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Last week the organizing committee of a high-stakes anti-abuse summit next month met to outline the schedule of the gathering, which will include both a penitential liturgy, and testimonies from...
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A German prelate widely considered to be one of Pope Francis’s closest allies has said the current clerical abuse crisis is being used by papal opponents as a platform to expel Francis from the...
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