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- September 21, 2017
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Pope asks new bishops from Florida, Texas about hurricanes’ aftermath
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- September 14, 2017
Bishop William A. Wack of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, and Bishop Robert M. Coerver of Lubbock, Texas, went up to shake the hand of Pope Francis on Thursday, and as soon as he heard where they were from, the pope asked about Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma and the people in Texas and Florida.
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Pope calls new bishops to avoid “nostalgia” for one-size-fits-all answers
- Vatican
- September 14, 2017
In remarks to newly appointed Catholic bishops during the last twelve months on Thursday, Pope Francis focused on the virtue of discernment, saying it “can’t be reduced to repeating formulas such as ‘high clouds send little rain’ to a concrete person, who’s often immersed in a reality that can’t be reduced to black and white.”
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Politics of baby bishops’ school: ‘It’s the universality, stupid!’
Perhaps the politics behind the Vatican’s intense formation course for newly appointed bishops, known as “baby bishops’ school,” originally had to do with changing attitudes about Rome, but in practice its primary effect seems to be to induce a more deeply global view of the Church.
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Pope’s marching orders for bishops: ‘Be apostles of mercy’
- Church in the US, Interviews, Vatican
- October 5, 2016
Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles says what he took away from the Vatican’s “baby bishops school” is a stronger sense of his ordination not just for L.A., but for the whole Church, and a new appreciation for the staggering variety of challenges the Church faces around the world.
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‘Baby bishops’ get a crash course in the realities of the Church
- Vatican
- September 18, 2016
Pope Francis told newly appointed bishops last week, “The world is tired of lying spellbinders and … ‘trendy’ priests or bishops. The people sniff them out – they have God’s sense of smell – and they walk away when they recognize narcissists, manipulators, defenders of their own causes, auctioneers of vain crusades.”
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Remains of over 300 individuals given burial in Michigan
- Christopher White
- September 21, 2017
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Meet the man who helped build the pope's brand on Twitter
- Inés San Martín
- September 21, 2017
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