In the fall, Mar Qardakh School, a kindergarten through ninth grade Catholic institution, will open a high school, the Chesterton Academy of St. Thomas the Apostle, in the northern Iraq city.
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Report: There are 19,000 deacons in the U.S., but that number is dropping.
The number is dropping, mirroring trends seen in religious life and the priesthood for the past half-century.
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Bishops hold emergency meeting on immigration: ‘We have the duty to take care of one another.’
U.S. bishops came together for the first day of an emergency meeting on immigration at Mundelein Seminary outside of Chicago.
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Vatican doubts new claims that St. Peter’s bones are in a forgotten tomb
The remains of St. Peter may have been and possibly still could be buried in catacombs under the Mausoleum of St. Helena, according to a paper published recently by three Italian researchers.
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Study: Gen Z didn’t hear from faith leaders during the pandemic. But they didn’t lose their faith either.
Nine out of 10 young people say they didn’t hear from a religious leader during the pandemic. Yet roughly half said their faith stayed about the same in the crisis, just over a quarter that it had grown stronger.
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Prayer service held at Catholic cathedral to remember victims of Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
The ecumenical prayer service was held at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa, which opened its doors 100 years ago to provide refuge for those fleeing one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.
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Canadian Catholic leaders express sorrow after bodies of over 200 Indigenous children discovered at residential school
Archbishop Miller was “filled with deep sadness” after the bodies of more than 200 children were found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s large Indigenous residential school.
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Pope Francis overhauls church’s criminal code to punish the sexual abuse of adults by priests
Amid the #MeToo movement and scandals of seminarians and nuns being sexually abused by their superiors, the Vatican has come to realize that adults can be victimized too if there is a power imbalance in the relationship.
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New species of owl named for American sister assassinated while fighting for the Amazon
Dubbed the Xingu screech owl, the little creature was given a scientific name of “Megascops stangiae” in honor of the late Sister Dorothy Stang, who was assassinated in 2005 in Anapu, Brazil, while fighting for the Amazon forest and its people.
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Pope Francis orders apostolic visitation of German diocese to investigate abuse crisis
Two envoys will work to get a “comprehensive picture of the complex pastoral situation in the archdiocese.”