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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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The Catholic Church has resettled nearly one-third of all refugees received by the United States since 1980
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Global religious persecution watchdog Open Doors USA is calling on the United States government to fight the persecution and mistreatment of Christians and other religious minorities in countries like China, India, and North Korea.
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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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According to local reports, after two weeks of arbitrary detention in the curia house, Bishop Rolando Alvarez, of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, was taken by the police between around 3AM, in a convoy of at least eight patrol cars.
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A group of Russian Orthodox priests has launched an open petition calling for an immediate ceasefire to the war with Ukraine and criticized the suppression of non-violent protests demanding peace.
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After claiming that he was “persecuted” and “harassed” by the police on Thursday, a bishop in Nicaragua is going on an “indefinite” hunger strike until the authorities assure him, through the bishops’ conference, that both he and his fa.
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On Sunday Pope Francis announced the creation of 13 new cardinals, including American Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington, making him the first African-American to get a red hat.
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A Canadian artist is the mastermind behind the first new sculpture installed in St. Peter’s Square in over 400 years: It depicts 140 migrants and refugees and is called “Angels Unaware.”
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Top Vatican officials hailed Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, recently named TIME Magazine’s “Person of the Year” for her environmental advocacy, as a “great witness” of Church teaching on care for creation and the human person.
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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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“It is distressing that opposition to Fiducia focuses overwhelmingly on those in same-sex relationships, rather than those many more men and women who are in heterosexual relationships that are not ecclesially valid," said Cardinal Robert McElroy.
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BREAKING: Pope speaks directly to clerical abusers, says 'hand yourselves over to human justice and prepare for divine justice.'
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Cardinal Designate Christophe Pierre said conservative papal critics in the US “are very, very noisy, they are a network of blogs, and they all talk together, but in reality, they represent just a small group.”.
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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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Bishop Silvio Jose Baez has been exiled in Miami since 2019. Father Edwin Roman, who openly opposed the repression by government forces of a civil protests in 2018, was forced into exile earlier this year.
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Obianuju Ekeocha, founder and president of Culture of Life Africa, encouraged a Washington audience Oct. 23 to celebrate the birth of babies and to ensure that U.S. government funds do not go toward promoting a culture of abortion in Africa.
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“We are facing a genocide in every aspect of life,” Uyghur journalist and activist Gulchehra Hoja told the event. “I speak for my mother, my father, my brother, and the millions desperate to be safe.”.
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On Palm Sunday, Julian Assange, the Australian founder of WikiLeaks who made headlines in 2010 for publishing thousands of confidential US diplomatic documents, received a personal letter from Pope Francis.
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Italy has said it’s open to give Asia Bibi asylum, while the United Kingdom allegedly denied a request due to concerns about "unrest among certain sections of the community."
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With the “chilling and frightening reality” of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants in the United States, Cardinal Roger Mahony is encouraging American bishops to raise their voices.
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On Saturday the bishop of Italian diocese of Turin announced that after receiving several requests, he would expose what is believed to be Jesus’s burial shroud during Holy Week, allowing believers to venerate it through television and social media.
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Pope Francis meets with autistic children at the Vatican #Autism
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, archbishop emeritus of Hong Kong, has said a new security law puts the city’s autonomy at risk, and condemned the Vatican’s silence on the issue as political pandering with disregard to the faith.
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Bishop Scharfenberger: “I think we have reached a point where bishops alone investigating bishops is not the answer. To have credibility, a panel would have to be separated from any source of power whose trustworthiness might potentially be compromised."
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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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Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega expelled the Missionaries of Charity, the religious order founded by Mother Teresa of Kolkata.
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Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, an organizer of Pope Francis’s February summit on the sexual abuse crisis, said the meeting should include discussing ways to hold bishops accountable for handling cases correctly.
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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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“Everybody has a right to God’s love and God’s compassion, said Cardinal Oswald Gracias, calling the teaching on blessings in the document a “natural consequence” of this principle.
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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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Cardinal Sarah: Church cannot back down on its teachings on chastity, especially when it comes to the LGBT community
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Pope Francis on Wednesday told a group of parents of LGBT children that God loves them as they are, and that the Church loves them because they are “children of God.”.
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Not only is Biden poised to become just the second Roman Catholic President of the United States, assuming his razor-thin victory survives the inevitable legal challenges, but he’s this pope’s kind of Catholic.
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An inmate asked Pope Francis for a hug http://t.co/RPJbFy9R1B
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Pope Francis approves miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the way for canonization
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O’Malley is to the Capuchins what the late Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini of Milan was to the Jesuits, i.e, the Prince of the Church who most perfectly reflected his order’s personality.
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Father Edwin Román arrived in Miami on August 3, 2021, for a brief stay, but ended up exiled after the Nicaraguan government accused him of inciting murder.
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Fr Vincent Capodanno, a Navy chaplain killed in Vietnam almost 50 years ago could be patron saint of Memorial Day.
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A Canadian nun with a Ph.D. in clinical sexology said the sex abuse crisis in the church does not mean "the end of faith" but rather "the end of a lack of formation and the end of deviance," and a call to return to Jesus' message of love.
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After the government of Daniel Ortega formally banned the work of the Missionaries of Charity in Nicaragua, the religious were forced out of the country in a minibus, patrolled as criminals by the police.
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This week retired Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate the 70th anniversary of his ordination as a priest with former members of his late brother’s choir.
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A newly installed bishop in Spain has taken the unusual step of banning his local television station from carrying any content produced by the massive EWTN religious media conglomerate on grounds of preserving unity with the pope.
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A group of young Catholics has urged the U.S. bishops to “take clear action” by conducting an independent investigation of who knew what and when about actions by Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick.
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At the Vatican on Wednesday, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced authoritarian regimes and autocrats, naming Cuba, Iran, China and Syria as the roots of religious repression.
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The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has urged those considering allowing priests in the Latin rite to marry in order to help solve a crippling vocation crisis to proceed with caution, saying marriage has not curbed shortages in his own rite.
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At least 13 priests, deacons, and members of religious congregations have been illegally detained by the Nicaraguan government since Aug. 1, in what has been the worst wave of persecution to the Church since January.
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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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As the government of Nicaragua continues to tighten its control, the bishops said that they will continue to denounce “the social structures of sin.”.
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Texas governor Greg Abbott is facing calls to stop the execution of Rodney Reed, who is set to die this month for a 1996 killing despite new evidence that even a growing number of Republican legislators say raises serious questions about his guilt.
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Any American who takes the full range of Catholic social teaching seriously simply cannot be comfortable in either of our major political parties.
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Mother Teresa will be declared a saint by Pope Francis in September, report says
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On Monday the Vatican launched a social media campaign urging young people to heed a recent appeal from Pope Francis to reach out to elderly in their area who are isolated because of the coronavirus.
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By @eharris_it, @BishopBarron says Thomas Aquinas offers remedy to polarization, rise of ‘nones’
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In new interview, Pope Francis describes four "temptations" for news media
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As emeritus Pope Benedict XVI approaches 90, key aid Archbishop Gänswein says “Pope Benedict is in good shape.”
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Even though there are more than 30 craters on the moon named after Jesuit scientists, to this day there are some who don’t know the Vatican has its own observatory, led of course, by a Jesuit.
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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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“Intercommunion is not possible, absolutely, objectively, is not possible because the Communion is the sacramental representation of the communion in the Faith,” said Cardinal Mueller.
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Speaker Paul Ryan said that he looked forward to attending the March for Life, and said that he will “march to defend the rights of those who cannot defend themselves.”.
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Known as the “Roman Runners,” the team of 12 seminarians will unite the east and west coasts of Italy in support of Christians in Iraq and Syria.
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Pope Francis brings 3 refugee families, all Muslims, to Rome from Greece aboard papal plane:
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Beginning today, Italian family members and friends are no longer required to observe social distancing when they come to church, and churches are once again able to have choirs at Mass and the assembly can sing.
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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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Asked about LGBTQ+ individuals who feel hurt by the catechism’s description of homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered,” Cardinal Christoph Schönborn said the catechism has been changed before.
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Calling Pope Francis a communist is flat out wrong, according to one of his top advisors.
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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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Pope Francis says anyone seeing Sanders greeting as political should 'find a psychiatrist':
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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 2017, the man who leads the Vatican’s office for religious congregations acknowledged in an interview that some 70 “new movements” were under investigation for the abusive behavior of their founders.
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Fear of immigrants isn't a sin, but being driven by it is, Pope Francis says in Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
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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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The breakaway Society of Saint Pius X has distanced itself from an Italian archbishop and former Vatican envoy to the United States accused of schism, saying his public statements have gone beyond the acts that got their own founder excommunicated.
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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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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 in the 1990s will soon be recognized as martyrs, the postulator for their causes said.
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