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- May 31, 2020
As we remember Jerusalem on Pentecost, our hearts are in Minneapolis

Can the event of Pentecost heal and guide us in responding to such an egregious act against human dignity? How can the tongues of fire assist us in dealing with such a blatant abuse of power?
- Church in Europe, COVID-19
- May 30, 2020
COVID chaplain carries 'tortured' experience into papal rosary

Father Gerardo Rodriguez Hernandez, chaplain for Rome’s Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infective Diseases, recalled his "tortured" experience ministering to coronavirus patients and their families.
- News Analysis
- May 31, 2020
Explaining the Vatican's lingering ambivalence on "zero tolerance"

To this day, a central plank in the indictment of many abuse survivors and their advocates is that the Vatican has not imposed a universal “zero tolerance” policy everywhere in the world.
- Vatican
- May 31, 2020
Pope closes marathon weekend saying Holy Spirit doesn't see 'left' and 'right'

Pope Francis Sunday closed a marathon of activities and messages over the weekend with a livestreamed Mass on the feast of Pentecost, insisting that the Holy Spirit is a gift from God that unites, and for whom distinctions such as “conservative” or “progressive” have no meaning.
- Interviews
- May 30, 2020
Supreme Court decision could affect abortion debate in America

Mary Ziegler is the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law. Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Garrow has called her “the premier historian of abortion in the post-Roe era.”

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