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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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HOMILY OF POPE FRANCIS MASS OF CANONIZATION OF SAINTS PAUL VI, OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO, AND FIVE OTHERS SAINT PETER'S SQUARE 14 OCTOBER 2018 The second reading tells us that “the word of God is living...
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Six days since the Holy See began tackling Crisis 2.0 in earnest – and amid an epic, months-long storm for the US' longest-serving diocesan bishop – at Roman Noon this Friday the Pope granted...
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Six weeks after Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò unleashed his "nuclear" accusations that Pope Francis and a host of other key Vatican and US figures had abetted the public profile of...
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Amid a formidable, ongoing tide of anger and questions in the wake of the first catalyst of the resurgence of abuse scandals in the US – the allegations against now-Archbishop Theodore McCarrick...
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For the record, for all the talk you've heard of major in-house investigations over the scandals unearthed through recent months, only one is actually happening – the Rome-chartered probe of adult...
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Once upon a time – not all that long ago – the Synod of Bishops was more a monthlong junket than a deliberative flashpoint: for the most part, participants glazed through weeks of speeches and...
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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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Catholic News Service
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review By Paul McMullen BALTIMORE (CNS) -- This generation of immigrants to Baltimore will continue to find a haven in the Catholic Church. That was the...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Farooq Khan, EPA By Anne Condodina ROME (CNS) -- At a time of technological and scientific progress, "we ought to feel shame" for not having advanced in "humanity and...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Although bishops should make up the majority of voting members at a Synod of Bishops, the fact that the body is only consultative...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Two Catholic leaders applauded congressional committees for reauthorizing the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, opening the...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Lori Van Buren, Times Union By Kate Blain ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) -- Among the 20 people killed in a devastating limousine accident Oct. 6 in Schoharie were several victims who had...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters By David Agren SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) -- Near the end of his homily at a Mass just prior to St. Oscar Romero's canonization, Jesuit Father Jose Maria...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters By Melissa Vida VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Before the sun rose in Rome Oct. 14, 88-year-old Gaspar Romero and his brother, 93-year-old Tiberio Romero were at the...
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National Catholic Register
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By Stephanie Mann | On the Roman Calendar of the 1962 Missal promulgated by Pope St. John XXIII, Oct. 11 is the Feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This feast was proclaimed in...
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By John Grondelski | Kelly Martinez has been a surrogate mother three times (in addition to being a mother to the children in her home). Her first surrogacy bore twins for two French homosexuals. Her...
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By Judy Roberts | When Philip Nielsen set out as a concerned Catholic layman to respond to what he saw as a lack of transparency in Church governance, he knew he could expect opposition. Indeed, he...
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By CNA/EWTN News | KIEV, Ukraine — The Russian Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow has cut ties with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, claiming his recognition of an independent..
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza | The 40th anniversary of the election of St. John Paul II as pope brings to mind his two rhetorical introductions, the power of which instantly characterized his...
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By Peter Jesserer Smith | OMAHA, Neb. — At St. Barnabas Catholic Church in Omaha, the widow’s mite is finally going digital. After research and planning, the parish is rolling out brochures and...
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By Joseph Pronechen | Twenty-five years ago, on Good Friday 1993, Irving C. “Francis” Houle received the wounds of Christ in his hands. He was 67 years old when he received the stigmata on Good...
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News from the Vatican
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At a time of technological and scientific progress, "we ought to feel shame" for not having advanced in "humanity and solidarity" enough to feed the world's poor, Pope Francis...
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Religions, which are meant to build bridges, contradict their very nature if they stop pursuing the path of peace, Pope Francis said.
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Pope Francis on Sunday hailed new saints Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI as saints vitally engaged with the world who still led lives of radical holiness.
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Pope Francis will canonize two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of...
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Halfway through this month’s Synod of Bishops on young people, faith and vocational discernment, young people say damage to the Church’s credibility because of global clerical abuse scandals is a...
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