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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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As the leadership of the US bishops entered the Papal Apartment for their first crisis talks with the Pope, the storm of these weeks broke out on yet another front: at Roman Noon this Thursday, the...
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Lest anyone missed the message earlier, again, welcome to Crunch Time... and right on cue, yet another game-changing development has dropped. Ostensibly driven by the Pope's "Gang of Nine"...
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For more than three decades, he's been squarely in medias res – first a John Paul II "teaching bishop," then Benedict XVI's first top US appointee and, finally, "something more...
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All of a sudden, Church, it's Crunch Time again – ten weeks in, with no end in sight, the sprint's become a marathon, so hopefully you've begun to grasp why the need for pacing is in order. Lest...
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(Updated 7pm ET with further developments.) Around 8.30pm Rome time this Tuesday, the Holy See Press Office released the following statement to the accredited outlets: This Thursday, 13 September...
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For a brief, stunning moment, everything felt different. A month ago this week – much as it already seems like a year – as the white-hot reaction to the Pennsylvania grand-jury report bore down, the...
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While prosecutors in several states have moved toward new investigations of abuse and its cover-up in the wake of last month's Pennsylvania grand jury report, Thursday brought not only the most...
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Catholic News Service
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VILNIUS, Lithuania (CNS) -- Meeting young Lithuanians in Vilnius, Pope Francis said he wanted a relaxed conversation, like they were sitting in a pub...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Reuters By Cindy Wooden VILNIUS, Lithuania (CNS) -- For the first time in decades, all of the Catholic bishops in China are in full communion with the pope, the Vatican announced...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VILNIUS, Lithuania (CNS) -- In Lithuania, a nation that experienced invasions, atrocities and persecution, Pope Francis began his visit with a plea to...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Norma Montenegro Flynn GRAPEVINE, Texas (CNS) -- Quoting from Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation "The Joy of the Gospel," Archbishop Christophe Pierre...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Norma Montenegro Flynn GRAPEVINE, Texas (CNS) -- A video message from Pope Francis and a procession of Encuentro crosses representing all of the participating...
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IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Retired Pope Benedict XVI expressed his displeasure with the way a German cardinal publicly criticized his stepping down as pontiff, and he...
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By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While God's holy church is made up of sinners, it also has its share of hypocrites who love to cry "scandal" to point out the failings of others and...
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National Catholic Register
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By Tito Edwards | This is the Most Effective Way to Transform Society, According to St. Pius X - Philip Kosloski, Aleteia+++ Live Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament – Adorecast A...
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By John Grondelski | Children will play a prominent role in the Gospels of the next three Sundays (and trust in the next five). This week, Jesus uses children as the example of what receiving one in...
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By Judy Roberts | Two experiences of sexual abuse, one by a priest, left Marty Meyer like many victims of trauma: outwardly normal, but inwardly distant from people, especially men. After trying...
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By Judy Roberts | Father Dominic Allain, a London-based priest of the Archdiocese of Southwark, England, is the international pastoral director of “Grief to Grace” Ministries, a retreat program for...
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By Marcia Segelstein | At an informal celebration for her graduating capstone seniors a few years ago, Boston College professor Kerry Cronin asked who they were dating, and how graduation was going...
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By Edward Pentin | The Vatican announced today that the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China have signed a “provisional agreement on the appointment of bishops,” allowing the faithful to “have.
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By Tito Edwards | Should the Church have Women Cardinals? – Nicholas Senz, The Catholic World Report Get Your Kids Out of Government Schools, Right Now, Today – Austin Ruse & Cathy Ruse...
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News from the Vatican
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The Vatican announced on Saturday that a deal has been reached with China over the appointment of bishops.
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An otherwise unknown figure in the Catholic Church, the late Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo Higuera has recently been identified as the one who opened the opened the door for the first complaints made...
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God went looking for and chose so many Christians and saints from the dregs of society, inviting some of the worst sinners to be his disciples, Pope Francis said in a morning homily.
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ROME — Pope Francis is heading to the Baltic countries this weekend amid renewed alarm about Russia’s intentions in the region it twice occupied for decades. Francis’ 25th foreign visit comes a...
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No one can remain indifferent to the way minority groups are increasingly the object of so much fear, scorn and hatred, Pope Francis said.
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