Amazon prelate floats alternative to married clergy: Send some Roman priests home
- Oct 16, 2019
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Former Chile nuncio defends himself; topless protesters attack cathedral in Argentina
- Amazon synod, Church in the Americas
- Oct 15, 2019
A shirtless protest in front of one of the world’s largest cathedrals. A discredited papal representative heading to Portugal from Chile acknowledges failures in responding to allegations of clerical sexual abuse. And as murder rates continue to rise, a Mexican cardinal says that killing cannot be the solution to conflict.
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Synod member, weary of married priest debate, rues getting stuck in ’70s
- Amazon synod, Interviews
- Oct 11, 2019
Father Martin Lasarte from Uruguay, a Salesian who served for 25 years as a missionary in Angola, has spent the past four visiting much of the Amazon as coordinator of the missionary efforts of the order in Latin America and Africa, and he says he’s tired of the conversation about the viri probati already.
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In Amazon, mission work changed, but still means accompanying suffering
- Amazon synod, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Oct 1, 2019
The Amazon basin, with its hundreds of indigenous tribes, has been mission territory since the first Spanish and Portuguese priests set out in canoes along its rivers in the 17th century.
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Sustainable land use urged to ease growing threats to food, water
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Aug 17, 2019
Leading five seminarians on an eight-week summer service program largely through Appalachia and South America, Conventual Franciscan Father Michael Lasky saw a new awareness rising in the young men’s minds.
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Catholic Church in Mexico praises Trump deal; Bolivian archbishop decries corruption
- Church in the Americas
- Jun 11, 2019
Ines San Martin discusses news around Latin America.
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CELAM presidents voice support for pope, pledge to fight regional crisis
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- May 21, 2019
Presidents of the 22 Latin American and Caribbean bishops’ conferences have expressed their support for Pope Francis and their commitment to address the region’s challenges through pastoral work.
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