Meet the man who could define what a ‘Francis bishop’ means
- May 26, 2017
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Canadian premier Trudeau meets Pope Francis at the Vatican
- Claire Giangravè
- May 29, 2017
Less than a week after meeting with President Trump, Pope Francis met with another key leader in North America on Monday May 29, the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau is called the “anti-Trump” by many, and the meeting featured many points of congruence as well as contested issues, such as euthanasia.
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Archbishop: Migration should be a choice, not 'something forced'
- Catholic News Service
- May 29, 2017
“Helping distressed populations where they are, rather than procrastinating and hoping for the best,” Philippine Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations, said, “is the most effective way to prevent their becoming involuntary migrants. It could also be the most cost effective way to help them and to spare them from all forms of exploitation.”
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In Iraq, necessity makes priests become engineers
- Catholic News Agency
- May 29, 2017
Fr. Georges Jahola, a Syrian Catholic priest, said that “here in Iraq if the Church doesn’t do these things, who’s going to do them? We have the capacity to act and do the talking, and also the contacts.” Therefore, they are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work.
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This parish is hosting a benefit concert for children with cancer
- Catholic News Agency
- May 29, 2017
In honor of a young cancer patient’s experience who dreamed of St. Philomena before her recovery, the Catholic parish of St. James in Charles Town, West Virginia is holding their second annual St. Philomena Medical Benefit Concert, which will aid cancer victims and their families.
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Bishop commends Ghana's plan to hand back management of mission schools
- Damian Avevor
- May 29, 2017
“I think returning the mission schools to their owners is a way of recognizing the contribution religious bodies have made and the purposes for which they founded mission schools,” Bishop John Kwofie of Sekondi-Takoradi said of the possibility.
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Mourning in Manchester, religious and secular traditions meet and meld
- Catherine Pepinster
- May 29, 2017
“Many of the people who do not have a formal religion do have belief in God, in souls going to heaven, and in angels. They like pilgrimages and candles,” said Linda Woodhead, professor of the sociology of religion. “This is very different to the Protestant tradition in England. It is like a de-Reformation,” she said, referring to how Catholic practice and ritual was disapproved of after the English Reformation and Puritan era.
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Archdiocese tells workers to ask ICE agents for warrants
- Associated Press
- May 28, 2017
Catholic churches across the United States have bee trying to decide upon the best course of action in protecting their parishioners who may fall into the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE. In Albuquerque, for example, employees of the diocese have been given specific instructions on what to do in a raid.
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A supposedly anti-capitalist pope channels his inner entrepreneur
- John L. Allen Jr.
- May 28, 2017
In terms of broad public perceptions, Pope Francis is often seen as hostile to Capitalism and no real friend of corporate culture. Yet on Saturday in Genoa, he delivered a reflection on business activity worthy of a graduate-level MBA program, among other things arguing that exploiting workers isn’t just immoral but also economically self-defeating.
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A supposedly anti-capitalist pope channels his inner entrepreneur
- May 28, 2017
In terms of broad public perceptions, Pope Francis is often seen as hostile to Capitalism and no real friend of corporate culture. Yet on Saturday in Genoa, he delivered a reflection on business activity worthy of a graduate-level MBA program, among other things arguing that exploiting workers isn’t just immoral but also economically self-defeating.
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Pope in Genoa challenges the ‘worldliness’ of Catholic life
- May 27, 2017
In a busy morning, Pope Francis said that the Church is interested in the “dignity of work” because even Jesus was a worker, acknowledged the role religious people have had in the drop in vocations by leading a worldly life, and challenged the young people of Genoa to question whatever the surrounding culture presents as normal, including the fact that the Mediterranean Sea has become a cemetery.
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Archbishop: Migration should be a choice, not ‘something forced’
- May 29, 2017
“Helping distressed populations where they are, rather than procrastinating and hoping for the best,” Philippine Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations, said, “is the most effective way to prevent their becoming involuntary migrants. It could also be the most cost effective way to help them and to spare them from all forms of exploitation.”
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Vatican stargazers look for divine inspiration
- May 28, 2017
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This parish is hosting a benefit concert for children with cancer
- May 29, 2017
In honor of a young cancer patient’s experience who dreamed of St. Philomena before her recovery, the Catholic parish of St. James in Charles Town, West Virginia is holding their second annual St. Philomena Medical Benefit Concert, which will aid cancer victims and their families.
READ MORE
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Mourning in Manchester, religious and secular traditions meet and meld
- May 29, 2017
“Many of the people who do not have a formal religion do have belief in God, in souls going to heaven, and in angels. They like pilgrimages and candles,” said Linda Woodhead, professor of the sociology of religion. “This is very different to the Protestant tradition in England. It is like a de-Reformation,” she said, referring to how Catholic practice and ritual was disapproved of after the English Reformation and Puritan era.
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CBN television chief on Christians, Israel and Trump
- May 25, 2017
Christian Broadcasting Network CEO Gordon Robertson talks about his own experience of Israel and that of his father and sons. He discusses what he thinks the Trump administration’s relationship will be like with the Jewish state, and the state of his father’s health.
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