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Defying Vatican, Belgian religious brothers will continue to offer euthanasia
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- September 13, 2017
In a September 12 statement, the board of the Belgian Brothers of Charity defied a Vatican request to end euthanizing patients, and said it “continues to stand by its vision statement on euthanasia for mental suffering in a non-terminal situation.” The Brothers of Charity in Belgium run 15 psychiatric hospitals with 5,000 patients.
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This baker’s Supreme Court case could set tone of religious liberty in U.S.
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- September 12, 2017
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, along with the Colorado Catholic Conference, the Catholic Medical Association, and other Catholic non-profits have weighed in on the case of a Colorado baker who does not wish to bake wedding cakes for same-sex ceremonies. In a statement to the court, they said the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause “guarantees every individual the right to seek the truth in religious matters and then adhere to that truth through private and public action.”
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Want peace? Teach kids how to dialogue, archbishop says
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- September 10, 2017
Archbishop Bernadito Auza, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN, told the High-Level Forum on a Culture of Peace in New York City that schools should educate children on civil discourse, or what Pope Francis calls a “grammar of dialogue.”
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Who was St. Peter Claver, whose tomb the Pope will visit this week?
- Catholic News Agency, Pope in Colombia
- September 7, 2017
The body of St. Peter Claver is kept and venerated in a shrine in Cartagena, which Pope Francis will visit on Sunday Sept. 10, one day after the saint’s feast day. The legacy of St. Peter Claver is strong in the United States as well, where in the early 20th century the Knights of Peter Claver were founded in his honor in Mobile, Alabama.
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Filipino archbishop: Face opposition with a martyr’s courage
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- September 7, 2017
Philippines Archbishop Socrates Villegas said during these times, pastors must not be afraid to “fill the dark world with the light of Christ,” and he encouraged the crowd to live up to the challenge of Pope Francis – to meet people in “the peripheries” of society.
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Ahead of Colombia visit, Pope says world needs builders of peace, dialogue
- Catholic News Agency, Pope in Colombia, Vatican
- September 5, 2017
In a video message to Colombians ahead of his Sept. 6-11 trip to the country, Pope Francis said Peace is something Colombia has been searching for and working at for many years. And it’s not just any peace, but “a stable, durable peace to see each other and treat each other as brothers, never as enemies.”
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