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- Nov 20, 2019
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On Catholicism, Key West, and taking comfort in the present
- News Analysis
- Nov 10, 2019
One way the Catholic instinct seeps through in Key West is a tendency among locals to compare the present state of the place unfavorably to a half-remembered, half-imagined past.
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In a secondary sense, Pope Francis delivers another homage to St. John XXIII
- News Analysis
- Nov 2, 2019
There’s a sense in which the Francis papacy can be understood as a sort of salsa-infused homage to St. John XXIII.
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New film beckons thoughts of John Paul II, synods, and global perspective
- Amazon synod, News Analysis
- Oct 25, 2019
What every bishop I’ve ever spoken to who’s taken part in a Vatican synod would say, and I mean unanimously, is this: The experience helped them think in a more global way about the vicissitudes of the Church.
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Ironic collision of two Sunday stories raises question of what a “poor Church” means
- News Analysis
- Oct 21, 2019
The ironic juxtaposition of two stories on the same day illustrates a chronic confusion within the Church about what an “option for the poor” actually means.
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Vatican II’s forgotten apostle of the poor stages comeback at Amazon synod
- Amazon synod, News Analysis
- Oct 20, 2019
One could make the argument that the Vatican II figure to whom Pope Francis is closest actually isn’t John XXIII but rather Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro of Bologna, Italy, the council’s leading apostle of the “option for the poor.”
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Father Thomas Stransky had key role in ecumenical, interreligious work
- Catholic News Service, Obituary
- Sep 8, 2019
Paulist Father Thomas Stransky, credited internationally as a pioneer in the Catholic Church’s ecumenical and interfaith relations stemming from the Second Vatican Council, died Sept. 3 on his 89th birthday.
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