A federal judge July 30 temporarily shielded four orders of women religious and Catholic health care ministries from enforcement of a New York state law allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide.
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The Hillbilly Thomists on 10-city tour promoting new album ‘Strange Land’
The band performs a mixture of bluegrass, folk, gospel and original songs composed by the Dominican friars.
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A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV
Patti Smith has said that while she is not Catholic, she was drawn in particular to Pope Francis and his “gentle, open, and steadfast sense of humanity.”
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Pope Leo XIV to offer public Masses and audiences every week of August
Here is a look at the pope’s schedule for the rest of the summer.
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UK Catholic leaders praise Andy Burnham on end-of-life care, call for faith-driven leadership
The U.K. prime minister has stated that palliative care and social care funding need to be “fixed” so that vulnerable people can have “peace of mind” about the care that they receive towards the end of their life.
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Florida carries out double executions as Catholic bishops call to end death penalty
The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops previously urged Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is Catholic, to stay the two executions.
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Pope Leo to young Catholics: Jesus doesn’t want you to be couch potatoes
The church “needs your holy rebelliousness, your pure energy, and your desire to transform situations of suffering into spaces of hope,” the pope said to youth in a video message.
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Wildfires in Spain force Augustinian nuns to evacuate monastery
In a statement published July 27, the sisters of the Monastery of the Conversion in Sotillo de la Adrada said they were evacuated July 25 and “had no choice but to leave the monastery.”
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Polish suspect in Medjugorje vandalism detained amid calls for prayer, not anger
“We pray for the conversion of the hearts of those who committed this act, that the Lord may touch them with His grace and lead them on the path of goodness,” the Medjugorje parish said in a July 28 statement addressing an act of vandalism.
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Medjugorje shrine targeted in overnight vandalism, altar fire
A security camera video posted on X showed a man pouring a flammable liquid around the altar and igniting a fire.