Brian Fraga 🇺🇸 🇵🇹 🇻🇦
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Investigative reporter covering the Catholic Church for @ncronline. Portuguese-American, US Army veteran, Boston sports fan. News tips: [email protected].
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Joined June 2011
Exclusive, via @brianroewe and myself. Layoffs have already begun as Catholic Relief Services has been forced to begin shutting down programs funded by USAID, which supplies about half of the Catholic organization's $1.5 billion budget. via @NCRonline.
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An internal email says CRS is likely to be cut in half this year from Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign assistance. Cuts will "cost people's lives and livelihoods," a former bishops' conference official...
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RT @Pontifex: Let us #PrayTogether that, inspired by Saint Francis, we might experience our interdependence with all creatures, who are lov….
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RT @cbcpnews: Archbishop Uy: #Synodality ‘not business as usual’ but a way of life #cbcpnews #SynodonSynodality.
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Cebu’s new archbishop said synodality must not be treated as an event or project but embraced as a way of life.
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ICYMI. In the wake of last week's shooting at Annunciation Church, most Catholic diocesan leaders avoided delving into the gun control debate; bishops are far more reticent to weigh in on guns than they are on other life issues, such as abortion.
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The archbishops of Chicago and Detroit echoed the prayers and condolences of fellow bishops, but also called for action to rein in gun violence in America. The bishops' conference statement fell...
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RT @rhina_guidos: Thanks, @OSVNews for running my @sistersreport on this Nicaraguan-style law financially threatening nonprofits that cri….
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RT @VaticanNews: Our Editorial Director criticizes plans to forcibly displace Palestinians from their land, calling for respect for the obl….
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Our Editorial Director criticizes plans to forcibly displace Palestinians from their land, calling for respect for the obligation to protect ...
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RT @joshjmcelwee: Israeli President Isaac Herzog will travel to the Vatican on Thursday to meet Pope Leo, who has recently stepped up his c….
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog will travel to the Vatican on Thursday to meet Pope Leo, who has recently stepped up his calls for an end to the war in Gaza.
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RT @HeidiSchlumpf: Although conservative women often cite their religious faith to justify their votes and may have heard pro-Trump, or at….
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RT @RNS: The world’s leading authority on food crises said the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it was likely to sp….
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The world’s leading authority on food crises said last week the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it was likely to spread across the territory without a...
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“Vegan," "nun," "powerlifter" and "tech sister," are an interesting set of labels, but Sr Pat Farrell describes them as no more than markers in shifting sand….
As a 72-year-old vegan nun serving the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, Farrell is an unusual powerlifter.
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RT @OutrchCatholic: Father James Martin: Pope Leo’s message for LGBTQ Catholics
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"The message I received from Pope Leo, loud and clear, was that he wanted to continue with the same approach that Pope Francis had advanced."
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RT @CBSNews: Rev. James Martin, one of the most prominent advocates for inclusion of the LGBTQ+ in the Catholic Church, met with Pope Leo X….
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RT @OSVNews: For the first time since the Aug. 27 attack by a shooter at an all-school Mass where he was presiding at Annunciation Catholic….
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For the first time since the Aug. 27 attack by a shooter who killed two children and wounded at least 21 more victims at an all-school Mass where he was presiding at Annunciation Catholic Church,...
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RT @NCRonline: On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with author, activist and movement scholar Rivera….
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"We need to do some soul-searching and decide if this is a normal presidency or a presidency that has stepped outside the rule of law," she said.
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RT @antoniospadaro: +++ Ecco un testo profetico di #TeilharddeChardin del 1950 sull’Intelligenza Artificiale #IA. Lo pubblico oggi sul quot….
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RT @Reuters: Pope Leo meets James Martin, US priest known for LGBT ministry
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Pope Leo gave a high-profile private audience to a prominent U.S. priest who ministers to LGBT Catholics on Monday, in a possible sign the new pontiff will continue the late Pope Francis' legacy of...
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RT @EWTNVatican: Pope Leo XIV opened the General Chapter of the Augustinians with Holy Mass at the Basilica of Saint Augustine in Rome, cal….
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"I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis, which is the desire to welcome all people, including LGBTQ people," Martin told The Associated Press after the audience.
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RT @NCRonline: Catholic nuns in India rejoiced after a liturgical conflict that has troubled a Syro-Malabar archdiocese for decades was res….
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RT @USCCB: Today we mark the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Pope Leo XIV invites us to sow “seeds of peace and hope” through….
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RT @CatholicNewsSvc: The new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, @BrianBurchCV , will present his letters of credential to @Pontifex in the co….
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