Different Catholic rites are, in fact, “a treasure” for the church.
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
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Pope Francis: Canon law must serve Vatican II vision of the church
The Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law is an instrument that must serve the church’s pastoral mission of bringing God’s mercy to all and leading them to salvation, Pope Francis said.
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Pope Francis: Politicians must help people overcome fear of migrants
Pope Francis urged them to oppose “one-way streets of exasperated individualism” and “the dead ends of corruption.”
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Vatican diplomat also wanted in Canada on child porn charges
An arrest warrant has been issued in Canada for Msgr. Carlo Capella, the Vatican diplomat recalled from service in Washington in late August, who already was the subject of a Vatican criminal investigation involving child pornography.
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Christians should return to Iraq as full citizens after being driven out by ISIS, cardinal says
About 100,000 Christians — among them more than 60,000 Syriac Catholics — were expelled from the Ninevah Plain by the Islamic State group in the summer of 2014 as the militants campaigned to expand their reach into Iraq.
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Pope Francis says he’s worried about growing anti-migrant sentiment
Pope Francis said he is worried that even Catholics are arguing against accepting more migrants and refugees into their communities, and they often cite an ill-defined “‘moral obligation’ to preserve the original cultural and religious identity” of their nations.
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Pope Francis: Mercy can scandalize those who don’t see their own sin
“We often hear faithful Catholics who see mercy at work and ask, ‘Why?'”
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Pope Francis in Colombia, Day 2: Defend life, promote peace, pope tells Colombians
“Jesus scatters and destroys all this darkness with the command he gives to Peter” to “put out into the deep sea.”
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Top Vatican official discusses ISIS terrorist threat, immigration debate
Cardinal Parolin said he had seen the most recent video attributed to Islamic State in which the pope and Vatican are threatened.
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Catholic groups fault Rome police for violent removal of refugees
Police evicted hundreds of refugees from the building Aug. 19. About 100 people, mostly Eritreans and Ethiopians with official refugee status, had been camping in a public square outside the building since then.