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Pope won't go home in 2017, saying 'the world is bigger than Argentina'
- Inés San Martín
- September 30, 2016
Disappointing Argentines all up and down Pope Francis’s home country, the pontiff released a video on Friday telling them he won’t make it back in 2017 because of other travel commitments in Africa and Asia, gently reminding them “the world is bigger than Argentina.”
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Former lay supervisor of altar boys denies abuse charges
- Associated Press
- September 30, 2016
A 79-year-old man who once supervised altar boys as a layman at a Catholic church in Boston has pleaded not guilty to charges that he sexually abused a young boy decades ago, after being arraigned on two counts of child rape and three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under age 14.
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Vatican's doctrine watchdog ponders women in the church
- Cindy Wooden
- September 30, 2016
Officials of he Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith spent three days in late September listening to women theologians, canon lawyers, Scripture scholars and specialists in other academic fields talk about roles women have played in the Catholic Church and roles they could play in the future.
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Pro-lifers hope to turn abortion clinic into memorial for the unborn
- Katie Briedenbach
- September 30, 2016
Shuttered in 2013, Toledo’s Center for Choice was bulldozed at the beginning of September. Today, the derelict parking lot leads only to a muddy plot studded with fragments of the former foundation, and pro-life advocates hope to turn it into a memorial for the unborn.
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Catholic leaders urge voters to back death penalty repeal
- Associated Press
- September 30, 2016
Catholic leaders are launching a campaign that will urge voters to retain Nebraska’s repeal of the death penalty in the November general election. The Nebraska Catholic Conference announced a series of steps Thursday that church leaders will take to speak to the state’s 375,000 Catholics.
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Francis is a 'consistent ethic of life' pope, but its roots are deeper
- Charles C. Camosy
- Commentary
The consistent ethic of life has its foundation in Scripture and tradition of the Church, but the person who first brought it to the American public in an imagination-catching way was Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago. It could be the basis of a new political option in American life.
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Fans remember Marlins pitcher with parade, prayers at Cuban shrine
- Tom Tracy
- September 29, 2016
Fans remembered Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez on Wednesday, who died in a recent boating accident, in part with a stop at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity near Miami’s Biscayne Bay and not far from the incident.
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Pope urges an end to "exasperating suffering" in Syria and Iraq
- Inés San Martín
- September 29, 2016
Talking to Catholic aid workers and a United Nations representative, Pope Francis urged the world not to look the other way from war and suffering in Syria and Iraq, and appealed to leaders to make “greater and renewed efforts to achieve peace throughout the Middle East.”
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On contraception mandates, polls pivot on question being asked
- September 28, 2016
A new poll by the Pew Research Center finds that two-thirds of Americans believe employers should be required to cover birth control, conflicting with a Marist poll showing that a majority say the government is being unfair to the Little Sisters of the Poor — showing it’s all about the question being asked.
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Pope’s message of reconciliation to loom large in Georgia, Azerbaijan
- September 29, 2016
Pope Francis travels to Georgia and Azerbaijan over the weekend, and each stop presents its own unique challenges. In Georgia he’ll visit an overwhelmingly Orthodox nation constantly at odds with Russia, and in Azerbaijan he’ll encounter a largely Shi’a Muslim society, in both cases pushing peace and reconciliation.
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Pope urges an end to “exasperating suffering” in Syria and Iraq
- September 29, 2016
Talking to Catholic aid workers and a United Nations representative, Pope Francis urged the world not to look the other way from war and suffering in Syria and Iraq, and appealed to leaders to make “greater and renewed efforts to achieve peace throughout the Middle East.”
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Pope won’t go home in 2017, saying ‘the world is bigger than Argentina’
- September 30, 2016
Vatican’s doctrine watchdog ponders women in the church
- September 30, 2016
Pope’s message of reconciliation to loom large in Georgia, Azerbaijan
- September 29, 2016
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‘Moved by Mercy’ is theme of bishops’ Respect Life program
- September 29, 2016
Each year, October is designated as Respect Life Month by the U.S. bishops, and this year’s theme is “Moved by Mercy.” It draws on a quote from Pope Francis when he called for the Jubilee Year of Mercy: “We are called to show mercy because mercy has been shown to us.”
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Former lay supervisor of altar boys denies abuse charges
- September 30, 2016
Pro-lifers hope to turn abortion clinic into memorial for the unborn
- September 30, 2016
Catholic leaders urge voters to back death penalty repeal
- September 30, 2016
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Iraq’s beleaguered Christians face ‘sneaky enemy in the ground’
- September 30, 2016
Although Iraq’s Christians face staggering challenges in trying to return to their homes, the most urgent is what Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako has called the “sneaky hidden enemy in the ground” – landmines, which presently make a safe return all but impossible even in areas where IS has been dislodged.
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Mexico emerges as most dangerous place in the world to be a priest
- September 29, 2016
L.A. priest the last hope for scores of Syrian refugees
- September 29, 2016
Children in Syria to send drawings to Pope in a plea for peace
- September 27, 2016
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Pope has one word for Hispanic ministry in the US: ‘Adelante!’
- September 27, 2016
San Antonio’s Mexican-born Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller is in Rome to brief Pope Francis on a project for Hispanic ministry in the U.S. and he’s got a prescription for Americans weary of the political crossfire of an election campaign: “Pain pills and sleeping pills!”
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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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