As latest Vatican trial opens, is it time to dust off ‘About Doctrine’?
- July 20, 2017
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Parents of Charlie Gard drop legal fight, saying 'time has run out'
- Crux Staff
- July 24, 2017
The parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard have decided to end their legal battle to save their baby’s life. Their decision came after an American neurologist told them that it was too late to try an experimental treatment in the United States. The child’s plight drew attention from both Pope Francis and President Donald Trump.
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Deaths in smuggler's truck 'completely senseless,' Texas archbishop says
- Catholic News Agency
- July 24, 2017
After nine people died due to heat in what appeared to be an immigrant smuggler’s truck parked near a Walmart in San Antonio, Catholic leaders speak up against what they are calling “an incomprehensible tragedy.” The local archbishop expressed hope that this might call people not only to tears, but to action.
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Pope Francis calls for "moderation and dialogue" in Jerusalem crisis
- Crux Staff
- July 24, 2017
Pope Francis has called for “moderation and dialogue” during the unrest in the Holy Land after Israel installed metal detectors at the Western Wall/Noble Sanctuary in Jerusalem. Christians and Muslims fear the move violates the “Status Quo” which has governed access to several Jewish, Christian, and Muslim holy sites for centuries.
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Not being afraid of controversy is part of Civilta Cattolica's mission
- Carol Glatz
- July 24, 2017
La Civilta Cattolica at times has courted controversy, because it tries to engage culture, which by itself can lead to unpopular opinions. According to the journal’s website, part of its mission is to “read and interpret” current events and trends in culture, history, science, art and politics “in the light of the Christian faith offered by the magisterium of the church.”
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Chinese official indicates Beijing to retain tight grip on church
- Catholic News Service
- July 24, 2017
Yu Zhengsheng, one of China’s top party leaders in charge of religion gave a speech in which he made it clear that the Catholic Church in China has to prioritize being Chinese. Due to events involving some Chinese Catholic bishops, relations between China and the Vatican have cooled.
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Loyola University Maryland grapples with grisly murder of top student
- Paul McMullen
- July 24, 2017
After a student at Loyola University of Maryland was murdered along with three friends, the president of the university, Jesuit Father Brian F. Linnane, tried to make sense of the senseless at the young man’s funeral.
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Doing well and doing good: Charities wary of Trump tax plan
- Carolyn Mackenzie
- July 24, 2017
Donald Trump’s proposed tax changes include doubling the standard deduction. Charities fear that this would lead fewer and fewer people to see a financial benefit from charitable giving and thus would cut that giving substantially.
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Duterte's bloody war on drugs slammed as 'social cleansing'
- Matt Hadro
- July 24, 2017
“We cannot correct a wrong by doing another wrong,” the Philippine bishops said. “A good purpose is not a justification for using evil means. It is good to remove the drug problem, but to kill in order to achieve this is also wrong.”
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Can anything burst Pope’s media bubble? Nah, probably not
- July 23, 2017
Next March will mark the five-year anniversary of Francis’s papacy, and one interesting question is whether the broad media love affair with Francis will still be in place when that moment comes. John Allen says “probably yes,” because by now the positive narrative surrounding Francis has become so entrenched as to be basically impervious to reconsideration.
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Pope begins answering priests from troubled Nigerian diocese
- July 22, 2017
Last June, Pope Francis threatened the priests of the Ahiara diocese in Nigeria with suspension unless they wrote a letter addressed to him, apologizing for refusing to accept their bishop, appointed by Benedict XVI in 2012. Days after the deadline, letters from Rome responding to each priest individually began to arrive in the diocese.
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Vatican article says ‘main obstacle’ for Pope Francis is bishops, priests
- July 23, 2017
Shortly after one Vatican article stirred debate by asserting there’s an “ecumenism of hate” in the U.S. between conservative Evangelicals and Catholics, another over the weekend asserted that the “main obstacle” to implementing Pope Francis’s vision for the Church is “closure, if not hostility” from “a good part of the clergy, at levels both high and low.”
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Colombian martyrs: witnesses to the point of death
- July 22, 2017
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Doing well and doing good: Charities wary of Trump tax plan
- July 24, 2017
Donald Trump’s proposed tax changes include doubling the standard deduction. Charities fear that this would lead fewer and fewer people to see a financial benefit from charitable giving and thus would cut that giving substantially.
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Chinese official indicates Beijing to retain tight grip on church
- July 24, 2017
Yu Zhengsheng, one of China’s top party leaders in charge of religion gave a speech in which he made it clear that the Catholic Church in China has to prioritize being Chinese. Due to events involving some Chinese Catholic bishops, relations between China and the Vatican have cooled.
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Ladaria: ‘I am in a deep and spontaneous harmony with the Pope’
- July 22, 2017
Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, the new Jesuit prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). said he is “in a deep and spontaneous harmony” with Pope Francis. The archbishop was speaking during a recent visit to the pope’s homeland, Argentina.
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