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- Interviews
- Oct 14, 2019
Author: St. Augustine would have embraced Pope Francis's 'field hospital' Church

Author James K.A. Smith believes St. Augustine, the patron saint of restless hearts, is the perfect guide for today.
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- Oct 13, 2019
El Paso bishop: Trump's border wall merges 'nationalistic vanities' with racism

Border Bishop Mark Seitz has released a pastoral letter on racism following the racially motivated El Paso shooting in August.
- Amazon synod
- Oct 14, 2019
Indigenous leader asks Synod to intervene with 'New Gods': Google, IMF, and World Bank

One of the indigenous leaders participating in the Oct. 6-27 summit of bishops on the Amazon region urged Pope Francis and the Catholic Church as a whole to help them talk with “the new gods of the developed countries,” naming Google, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
- Amazon synod, Church in the Americas
- Oct 14, 2019
Lonely voice in Brazilian episcopate speaks against synod document

Bishop José Luís Azcona is among the minority of Brazilian prelates to raise concerns about the synod, calling the Vatican meeting’s preparatory document “weak and inconsistent.”
- Analysis
- Oct 13, 2019
Memo to Synod: If you don't want focus on married priests, give us something else

One difficulty in getting those of us in the media to focus on subjects such as ecology, poverty and extractive industries in the Amazon is that it’s hard to know what the Catholic Church can really do about them.

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