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  • Mexican cardinal calls statue thieves ‘black sheep’ of Catholic family

    Mexican cardinal calls statue thieves ‘black sheep’ of Catholic family

    • Oct 24, 2019

    According to Mexico’s most important cardinal, the Catholics who stole the small wood statue of a topless pregnant woman and those within the Church who are climate change deniers are the “black sheep” of the 1.3 billion-member family that is the Catholic Church.

    By Inés San Martín
  • Cardinal says synod seeks to give women greater role in Church governance

    Cardinal says synod seeks to give women greater role in Church governance

    • Oct 23, 2019

    The role of women in Church served as the major theme at Wednesday’s Vatican press briefing.

    By Christopher White
  • Bolivia’s bishops call presidential vote fraudulent; call for runoff election

    Bolivia’s bishops call presidential vote fraudulent; call for runoff election

    • Oct 23, 2019

    Bolivia’s bishops said Sunday’s presidential poll showed “obvious signs of fraud” and endorsed a runoff vote.

    By Inés San Martín
  • Group advocates for women’s ordination on the sidelines of the synod

    Group advocates for women’s ordination on the sidelines of the synod

    • Oct 23, 2019

    Activists supporting women’s ordination held a prayer vigil along the banks of the Tiber on Tuesday.

    By Christopher White
  • Amazon group denounces theft and destruction of indigenous statue in Rome

    • Oct 22, 2019

    An indigenous organization has denounced the theft and destruction of  a wooden statue of a naked pregnant woman from a church in Rome on Monday.

    By Inés San Martín
  • Amazon bishops pledge poverty, spurning plastics and taking the bus

    Amazon bishops pledge poverty, spurning plastics and taking the bus

    • Oct 20, 2019

    Facing what signatories call an “avalanche of consumerism,” 40 bishops pledged Sunday to assume a “happily sober lifestyle, simple and in solidarity with those who have little or nothing; to reduce the production of garbage and the use of plastics, favoring the production and commercialization of agro-ecological products; and using public transport whenever possible.”

    By Inés San Martín
  • Synod bishops to renew Vatican II’s “Pact of the Catacombs” for the poor

    Synod bishops to renew Vatican II’s “Pact of the Catacombs” for the poor

    • Oct 19, 2019

    Early Sunday morning in Rome, some of the 180 bishops participating in the Oct. 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Amazon will make a pilgrimage to the Catacombs of Domitilla on the outskirts of Rome to renew a promise by bishops at Vatican II to live like the poor.

    By Inés San Martín
  • Indigenous priest says celibacy doesn’t cause shortages in Amazon

    Indigenous priest says celibacy doesn’t cause shortages in Amazon

    • Oct 17, 2019

    One of the few indigenous priests participating in this month’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon has weighed in on the issue of celibacy, saying it is a virtue everyone can live, but refrained from offering an opinion on the debate surrounding married priests in the Amazon.

    By Elise Harris
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