The page reviews questions including why the document is being developed and whether the bishops voted to ban elected officials from receiving holy Communion.
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Over 600 bodies found at another Catholic school for Indigenous children in Canada
The discovery that follows last month’s report of 215 bodies found at another school.
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German bishop discusses the country’s synodal process with the pope
Bishop Bätzing said he “informed the pope in detail” about the status of the German church’s “Synodal Path” and “made it clear that the rumors that the church in Germany wants to go its own way are not true.”
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Cardinal Tagle’s successor promises to be a listening shepherd as Manila archbishop
Cardinal José Advíncula was installed as the new archbishop of Manila, the country’s largest diocese, in a ceremony at the Philippine capital’s historic cathedral June 24.
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So, Pope Francis invited Spider-Man to the Vatican
The real-life superhero Mattia Villardita was invited to the audience because of his everyday commitment to bring joy to suffering children — dressed as his childhood idol.
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Black Catholic nun: ‘The right to vote is a right-to-life issue.’
Protection of voting rights is a moral issue, according to Sister Anita Baird, who was on a panel discussion during a June 21 online forum on voting rights sponsored by Georgetown University.
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Vatican expresses concern about proposed Italian law on homophobia
The Vatican has informed Italy that a draft law to fight homophobia and discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity could violate the freedom of Catholics to teach and practice their faith.
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Immigrant father of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos donates $12 million to Catholic school
Miguel Bezos, the immigrant father of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has donated $12 million to a Catholic school in Delaware that housed and educated him when he arrived as an unaccompanied minor from Cuba in the early 1960s.
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Cardinal reaffirms restrictions on Latin Masses at St. Peter’s Basilica
Cardinal Mauro Gambetti today reaffirmed restrictions on the private celebration of pre-Vatican II Masses at St. Peter’s Basilica: “So that what is exceptional does not become ordinary.”
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U.S. Catholics asked to pray for the bishops as Communion document is drafted
The president of the U.S.C.C.B. has asked the nation’s Catholics to pray for him and his brother bishops “as we continue our dialogues and reflections” in the process of drafting a document on the “meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church.”