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- News Analysis
- May 24, 2019
In the Vatican's 'Game of Thrones,' can Pope Francis 'break the wheel'?

In a nod to 'Game of Thrones,' is Pope Francis's papacy capable of "breaking the wheel" of Vatican bureaucracy?
- Church in Europe
- May 24, 2019
Italian bishops decree 'moral obligation' to report abuse to police

Italian bishops deliver excuses on streamlining marriage annulments and reducing the number of dioceses, but bring results on child protection.
- Church in the US, Interviews
- May 24, 2019
Organization honored for helping persecuted Christians around the world

The papal charity Aid to the Church in Need received the annual award from the Holy See's Mission to the U.N.'s Path to Peace Foundation.
- Church in the Americas
- May 24, 2019
Peruvian ‘prophet’ of the Amazon says world’s lung needs attention

Cardinal Ricardo Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, a long-time advocate for an ecological agenda in the Amazon and one of those tasked with organizing this year's synod on the region, has said the "world's lung" is diminishing, and it has to be stopped before it's too late.
- Vatican
- May 24, 2019
Pope warns charity leaders to steer clear of 'efficiency-ism'

“Let us ask the Lord for him to free us of efficiency-ism, of worldliness, of the subtle temptation to worship ourselves and our abilities,” Francis told the leadership of Caritas Internationalis on Thursday.

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