If the church is a field hospital, I have known a place within the church where the wounded have flocked for many decades. I am speaking, of course, of Howard Gray.
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Chileans denounce suffering sex abuse by Marists, priests
Pope Francis and the Chilean church are under mounting pressure to address another, even bigger sex scandal.
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Pope Francis prays for victims of church bombings carried out by ISIS-inspired family in Indonesia
A family of six that included two young children carried out deadly attacks on three churches in Indonesia on Sunday.
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Chilean bishops set to meet with Pope Francis in response to the sexual abuse crisis
In an extraordinary response to a widening sexual abuse crisis, Chilean bishops will arrive in Rome this weekend to participate in a summit called by Pope Francis, May 14 through 17.
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What it’s like celebrating Easter behind bars
On the day after Easter, five incarcerated women were initiated into the Catholic Church.
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I lost my mom 83 years ago, but Our Lady never left me.
One day, I looked up to the statue of Our Lady and prayed: “God has taken my mother. I need you to be my mother.”
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New green project at cemetery in Washington aims to protect God’s creation
The project created a natural infrastructure to reduce pollutants in water runoff.
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Inquiry or Inquisition? Another look at Father Teilhard de Chardin
The Jesuit’s approach was groundbreaking because “it was not a simple reconciliation of science and faith; it was integrating, creating a single, wholistic vision because the past danger was having a radical separation” of the two.
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Pope Francis: Never forget that Mary was a lay person
“Never forget that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a lay person and his first disciple.”
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Catholics get chance to celebrate Mary with new feast day
Gaining a renewed and deeper understanding of Mary’s nurturing and caring side is something he said the church, especially in today’s climate, could certainly use.