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Providing the best in smart, wired and independent Catholic news both in the United States and throughout the world. Edited by @JohnLAllenJr
Joined June 2014
"I want abortion to become unthinkable. I want everyone who sees the film to see how God’s love and mercy can change their lives. And I want people to understand that love is the only way we are going to win the war against abortion." -@AbbyJohnson
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“History tells us that Christians too, including Catholics, are not strangers to such evil. I would like to ask your forgiveness for this," Pope Francis said while telling Romania's gypsies that he's sorry for their mistreatment. #PopeInRomania
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Breaking by @eharris_it: Bones found at Vatican property in Rome reopen questions about unsolved 1983 mysteries.
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Rather than ordaining married men, a Venezuelan bishop said, another idea is that he bring some of the surfeit of priests who clog the streets of the Eternal City back with him to the rainforest. #AmazonSynod
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#PopeFrancis crossed the 12 million mark on @Twitter -- making him the most followed world leader & religious leader
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Speaking to @cnni, @JohnLAllenJr breaks down the significance of the #Vatican decision to defrock Theodore #McCarrick, saying it puts added pressure on the pope to handle abuse cases differently, but the saga isn't over until the cover-up is also dealt with
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Pope Francis meets with autistic children at the Vatican #Autism
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“Many grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God.” http://t.co/ABuYJYqvsG
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Ahead of the @March_for_Life, @CCamosy spoke with @LilaGraceRose about the her work and the #prolife movement. #WhyWeMarch #LoveSaysLives
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+@Card_R_Sarah says Mary, Mother of the Church should be celebrated this year and the celebration should take precedence over any other possible liturgy that day.
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An inmate asked Pope Francis for a hug http://t.co/RPJbFy9R1B
#PopeinPhilly #PopeinUS
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It's all clear now: Pope Francis slips out of Vatican to get new glasses http://t.co/ebo81Snq3s
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By @eharris_it, @BishopBarron says Thomas Aquinas offers remedy to polarization, rise of ‘nones’
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Many French Catholics say the fires that engulfed #NotreDame may have also set off a spiritual spark, especially in the new generations.
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Francis visited the shrine of Our Lady of Caacupé, a Marian devotion so dear to him #PapaEnPy
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Pope Francis stopped the car taking him to first event to get out and bless a person in a wheelchair #PopeInPhilly
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In May, Pope Francis named William Wack the sixth bishop of the diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee. While less than five percent of the population of his diocese is Catholic, Wack’s missionary zeal makes him eager to change those statistics-- by @cwwhite212.
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“People ask me, ‘are you a John Paul II priest? Benedict? Or Francis? Yeah, I’m all three," says @BishopWack, the nation’s youngest bishop, in an interview with @cwwhite212.
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In his Sunday column @JohnLAllenJr says that the Catholic youth in Krakow delivered the answer to a month of terror
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Pope Francis asks that every European parish, monastery, & shrine to welcome a refugee family http://t.co/onBAdYnFie
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A bishop, seven Trappist monks and 11 other religious men and women killed by extremists in Algeria between 1994 and 1996 have been recognized as martyrs by #PopeFrancis. @inesanma reports today on #Crux.
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