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Pope thanks nuns for telling him there’s a ‘disconnect’
- May 12, 2016
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis told the heads of women’s religious orders from around the world on Thursday that to talk about women when they’re not present is not “evangelical,” and thanked one nun for informing him there’s a “disconnect” at times with Church authorities. “To talk about someone when
Pope calls missionaries heroes of evangelization
- May 10, 2016
VATICAN CITY — Young women and men who are tired of today’s self-centered, materialistic society should consider becoming missionaries — the heroes of evangelization, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass. “Life is worth living” to the full, “but in order to live it well, ‘consume’ it in service, in
Sisters of Life reach out to single moms in 25-year-old ministry
- May 10, 2016
NEW YORK — On a drizzly gray morning in early May, the bright kitchen at Visitation Mission on Manhattan’s East Side was filled with the sound of laughter and the inviting aromas of fresh-cut vegetables and baking cookies as postulants and novices of the Sisters of Life prepared food for
Cardinal Burke leads Italians on ‘March for Life’
- May 10, 2016
ROME— People from at least two dozen countries joined Italians May 8 for the sixth annual National March for Life in Rome. Carrying multicolored balloons, crucifixes or children, the estimated 30,000 people walked through the historic center of the city and joined Pope Francis for the midday recitation of the
Chaldean archbishop doesn’t see Christians wiped out of Iraq
- May 10, 2016
HARISSA, Lebanon — Despite predictions that Christianity could be wiped out of his war-torn homeland within five years, an Iraqi Catholic cleric said he believes in God’s ultimate preservation. “This prognosis may be of thinkers or politicians, but not of the believers,” Chaldean Archishop Yousif Mirkis of Kirkuk told Catholic
Theologians’ brief in Little Sisters case may lead to compromise
- May 7, 2016
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court cases, with their multiple friend-of-the-court briefs, leave extensive paper trails behind. Although many briefs get lost in the shuffle, occasionally some stand out. In Zubik v. Burwell, the challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception requirement better known as the “Little Sisters of the Poor” case,
Swiss Guards pledge to protect pope with their lives
- May 7, 2016
VATICAN CITY — With their left hands clutching a standard and their right hands raised with three fingers open symbolizing the Holy Trinity, 23 new Swiss Guard recruits pledged “faithfully, loyally and honorably” to serve and protect the pope and, if necessary, sacrifice their lives for him. The pageantry of
Cardinal welcomes Britain’s U-turn on child refugees
- May 6, 2016
MANCHESTER, England — Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster has welcomed a U-turn by the British government over the resettlement of child refugees. He said he was “very happy” with a May 4 announcement by Prime Minister David Cameron that the U.K. will accept an unspecified number of unaccompanied children who
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