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Pope Francis to Lutheran Leaders: Jesus Feels Pain at Our Divisions

vatican city, jun 25, 2021 / 12:00 pm. pope francis told a group of lutheran leaders on friday that the desire for unity grows the more chri...

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One Way to Racial Reconciliation: Don't Talk, Do Something

i have watched with dismay as race relations in the united states have grown worse and worse. it seems as if all the good will won during my...

Vatican's top diplomat addresses intervention on controversial Italian draft law dealing with homophobia

pope francis and cardinal pietro parolin leave the paul vi hall on february 12, 2015. (filippo monteforte/afp via getty images)   the v...

New Survivor Reference Panel for Catholic Church in England and Wales

nazir afzal, the former crown prosecutor who leads the catholic safeguarding standards agency (undated file photo)   the church in engl...

Not Everyone Should Receive: What the Communion Debate's Really About

i would not have made the decision that the american catholic bishops just made. they voted by a three-to-one majority to authorize the draf...

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How the Left Slanders the Right

writing in 1940, the  catholic herald columnist douglas jerrold describes the ways in which he thinks the english left misrepresented t...

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Cardinal clarifies exceptions to ban on private Masses in St. Peter’s Basilica

a view of the facade of st. peter's basilica from the vatican's apostolic palace, feb. 14, 2015./ lauren cater/cna.   --- vatican city,...

Hannah Brockhaus

Catholic archbishop in Ukraine: ‘It is still springtime in our Church’

lviv, ukraine, jun 21, 2021 / 07:00 am an archbishop has said that the catholic church in ukraine is still enjoying a “springtime” despite r...

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Nicaragua: Catholics fear priests are next in wave of political arrests

police confront reporters outside the house of journalist and pre-presidential candidate cristiana chamorro in managua on june 2, 2021....

Eduardo Campos Lima

A cause advances, and dioceses are rearranged

news analysis: pope francis exercises power of the keys. -- rome -- the big news out of the vatican on saturday was the announcement that ro...