Pope’s potential masterstroke takes charge in the Holy Land
- September 22, 2016
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Pope concerned over North Korea's nuclear testing
- Inés San Martín
- September 27, 2016
“The Holy See supports continued efforts by the international community to revive negotiations over denuclearization and to enable the IAEA to resume its critical role in nuclear verification there,” says Monsignor Antoine Camilleri, Vatican Undersecretary for Relations with States.
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Real-life exorcist says holiness counts more than using Latin
- Mary Rezac
- September 27, 2016
As opposed to the claims made by a new TV show, a real-life exorcist says that it’s forbidden to allow anyone to tape or broadcast an exorcism, and also that it’s more important the exorcist be a “man of God” rather than that he perform the ritual in Latin.
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Benedictine archabbot was at golf legend's bedside when he died
- Mark Pattison
- September 27, 2016
Although golfing legend Arnold Palmer, who died on Sept. 25, was a lifelong Presbyterian, he had a relationship with St. Vincent’s Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, run by the Benedictines, for more than a half-century, and Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki was with him when he died.
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Top Vatican diplomat lauds Colombia's peace deal
- Catholic News Service
- September 27, 2016
At the signing of an historic peace deal between Colombia’s government and its main rebel faction, the Vatican’s top diplomat said people in the largely Catholic nation “have lived through forced displacements and violence. … And that is why we need to find the road to peace and justice.”
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Baby born in jungle symbolizes suffering of India's Christians
- Nirmala Carvalho
- September 26, 2016
When a new director was recently appointed for a center serving the suffering people of India’s eastern Kandhamal district, the first thing he did was to visit a young girl born in the forests during a vicious cycle of anti-Christian persecution in the summer of 2008.
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Addressing voter anger key to November, Georgetown panel says
- Dennis Sadowski
- September 26, 2016
Underlying anger and deep-seated distrust of government — and the major party candidates — are at the root of one of the most tumultuous presidential campaigns in memory, one in which many Americans will either vote against rather than for someone, or just not vote at all.
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Charlotte Catholics struggle to cope with latest police shooting
- Patricia L. Guilfoyle
- September 26, 2016
Catholic leaders in Charlotte, N.C., in the wake of another controversial police shooting, are acknowledging people’s anger and fear, but encouraging them to lift each other up and bring their Catholic faith into the world, “uplifting and elevating others to do better, and honoring and recognizing who we are.”
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Catholic Church alleges smear campaign against slain priests
- Associated Press
- September 26, 2016
After three priests were slain in Mexico, Catholic officials in the country are alleging that the government is engaging in a smear campaign to cover its inability to rein in drug violence. Media reports suggests that two of the priests were seen drinking with their attackers, and the third was seen with a young boy.
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On Communion debate, Pope Francis opts for decentralization
- September 25, 2016
Whether Pope Francis intended it or not, by saying that the implementation of his document “Amoris Laetitia” depended on the guidelines of local bishops, he has decentralized resolution of the debate over Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.
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Los Angeles archbishop sees ‘Latino moment’ in America
- September 25, 2016
Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles isn’t just any bishop, but one of the most influential prelates in the U.S. and, arguably, the world, seeing himself as a “bridge” between the Americans and a tribune for Hispanic/Latino issues in the States, especially immigration.
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Pope has a chance to bond with natural Muslim ally
- Analysis, Global Church, Vatican
- September 26, 2016
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Pope meets Congo’s Kabila, but Vatican displeasure evident
- September 26, 2016
Pope Francis received Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in a Vatican audience on Monday, and the atmospherics suggested Francis wasn’t happy — among other things, the pontiff didn’t meet Kabila in the reception room as normal, but rather waited for him in the papal library.
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Pope concerned over North Korea’s nuclear testing
- September 27, 2016
Pope says God is shared by love, not by forcing truth on people
- September 25, 2016
Unlike Italy, pope backs anti-gay marriage push in Mexico
- September 25, 2016
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Pope Francis came to America not to lecture, but to inspire
- September 25, 2016
Instead of using his visit to America last year to strictly lecture politicians and the public about the moral failures of a nation that has drifted far from upholding Catholic ideals about life and family, Pope Francis offered us something to aspire to.
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Benedictine archabbot was at golf legend’s bedside when he died
- September 27, 2016
Addressing voter anger key to November, Georgetown panel says
- September 26, 2016
Charlotte Catholics struggle to cope with latest police shooting
- September 26, 2016
Latest from the Global Church
Indian cardinal says Mother Teresa was ‘Pope Francis before Francis’
- September 25, 2016
Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, a member of Pope Francis’s “C9” council of cardinal advisers from around the world, said during a thanksgiving Mass for her sainthood on Sunday, “Her life is a testimony of truth and humble service. She chose not to be the last, but the servant of the last.”
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Real-life exorcist says holiness counts more than using Latin
- September 27, 2016
Top Vatican diplomat lauds Colombia’s peace deal
- September 27, 2016
Baby born in jungle symbolizes suffering of India’s Christians
- September 26, 2016
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Philly prelate says power of pope’s visit was ‘personal presence’
- September 25, 2016
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia says that although “it’s hard to be patient,” one year probably isn’t enough time to gauge the impact of Pope Francis’s visit last year, but the long-term effect should be “a stronger commitment at the grassroots level to faithful marriages and families.”
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Los Angeles archbishop sees ‘Latino moment’ in America
- September 25, 2016
Secular pro-lifer warns the movement, ‘Lay off the God talk”
- September 24, 2016
Backer of Church ban says contraception hurts women most
- September 24, 2016
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