Margaret Karram, president of the Rome-based Focolare movement, visited the United States to discuss current issues in peacemaking.
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Spain’s Holy Week confraternities celebrate the Jubilee year in Rome
Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist attraction, demonstrating the complex reality of their fame.
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Jesuit superior general reaffirms Jesuits’ availability to Pope Leo XIV
Beyond a simple affirmation of the pope’s authority, the letter by Arturo Sosa, S.J., called attention to its particular place of importance in the life of the Jesuits.
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After Trump’s deportations, Venezuelan families struggle to bring their loved ones home from El Salvador
“My brother has never committed a crime in Venezuela or elsewhere. His only mistake has been to enter the United States as a migrant. He has been labeled as a Tren de Aragua member just because of his tattoos.”
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A missionary pope: What Pope Leo XIV’s years in Peru tell us about how he’ll lead the church
Father Robert Prevost first arrived in Peru in 1985 during a time of crisis, the aftermath of devastating El Niño rains that had left thousands of people homeless.
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Remembering Pope Francis, a pilgrim leader in the Holy Land and Middle East
The pope’s visit to Egypt was a turning point, not only for many Egyptian Christians in strengthening their faith, but also in the way they were perceived by their Muslim peers.
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‘It was a message’: How the crowds in St. Peter’s reacted to Pope Leo XIV
“For us, as Hispanics who are suffering in the United States, it gives us great hope to believe that this next pope will be like Francis and stand with immigrants.”
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In Germany, the Catholic Church grapples with the growing appeal of the far-right AfD
German Catholic bishops say that even where the party has not tipped into extremism, it has failed to reform itself of such tendencies. They charge that a nationalism incompatible with Christianity has become the AfD’s animating ideology.
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They came to Rome for vacation. Then the pope died.
The chair of Peter may be empty, but the Vatican is still full.
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How Trump’s tariffs are threatening this Irish Christian art workshop
Trump’s tariffs hit an unlikely target—handmade Irish Christian art—and echo an ancient struggle over the sacred across borders.