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Word on Fire
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Rome Reports
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Whispers in the Loggia
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For Brooklyn, “Columbus” Day Comes Early – In NY Homecoming, Pope Taps Brennan to Succeed “The Czar”In the first Stateside move of the Vatican’s new working year, the most significant opening on the current US docket is off the table… and as Mets fans can always use good news, for once they’re in...
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As some US bishops advocate levying de facto sanctions on President Biden and other Catholic politicians for their support of legal abortion, the Holy See's distinct, but veiled skepticism over a...
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Before anything else, especially amid all the sorrows, fears, loss and disorientation of a brutal year across the globe, Buon Natale a tutti – to one and all, a Blessed Christmas... may all its light,
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Fifteen years (less a day) since Benedict XVI revolutionized the Roman Pontiff's Christmas "greeting" to the leaders of his Curia – transforming the holiday pleasantry into a Pope's ultimate...
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Whether you’ve been waiting three decades or just three weeks for this, the “mountaintop” is at hand. From 4pm Rome (10am US ET), the livefeed of a Public Consistory like no other – from the Altar of...
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As the US bishops face a moment unseen in most of their lifetimes – the nation's election of a Catholic to the Presidency – the issue of Joe Biden's faith emerged by surprise at today's public close...
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Set to begin at 1pm Eastern, this final day of a virtual – and heavily curtailed – USCCB Plenary will be underpinned by what've arguably been the two key threads of American life in 2020: the bench's...
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National Catholic Register
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Daniel Ibáñez Pope Francis is keeping Nashville in prayer. The Holy Father ‘joins the entire community in mourning the children and adults who...
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI Bart Pike says a prayer March 28 after placing an angel and a U.S. flag at a makeshift memorial for the six shooting victims who were...
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U.S. Capitol The Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023 had nearly unanimous support. It will now advance to the Senate.
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Thousands participate in the March for Life in Lima, Peru, on March 25. Thousands came out March 25 to support the gift of life.
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Thoom ‘Gregorian Chant’ ‘The man that hath no music in himself … is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils’
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Renata Sedmakova Giuseppe Sciuti, “The Annunciation,” 1907, Acireale, Italy. ‘I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse...
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‘Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God,...
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News from the Vatican
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Claims that NGOs which rescue migrants at sea do for money, and in effect are human traffickers, is a rhetorical staple on Italy’s political right.
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Of the past five priest secretaries to former popes, only Gänswein remained in Rome with a Vatican position after the pope he served was no longer in power – and that was primarily to be at Benedict...
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Italy’s Postal Police have arrested an unnamed 54-year-old man from Frascati for scamming an unemployed Italian youth and his father by promising to get the young man a job with the Vatican Gendarmes...
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Though it may seem ironic that the Vatican should be launching its own shopping mall under a pope who’s a stern critic of the excesses of capitalism, there are some distinctive “Pope Francis” touches.
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Pope Francis presided over a special penitential liturgy Friday, telling faithful to go beyond "the hypocrisy of appearances" and to humbly recognize their sins and failures and to ask God for his...
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In a recent letter to Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Pope Francis recalled their historic meeting two years ago and urged greater collaboration among their communities in promoting peace and...
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Vatican Secretary of State Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin on Monday took issue with a recent vote by the German bishops in favor of blessing same-sex unions, saying the move does not align with...
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