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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

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

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

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

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

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

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