While Serra is credited with spreading the Catholic faith across what is now California, critics say he was part of an imperial conquest that beat and enslaved Native Americans.
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Lancet report urges phasing out institutional care for children
A report in the noted medical journals The Lancet Psychiatry and The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health have called for the phasing out of institutionalized care for children, favoring family-based care.
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‘Parish priest on loan to the missions’ ends nine years as CNEWA president
Msgr. John E. Kozar, having completed nine years of service as head of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, is retiring from his post and reflects on his time as CNEWA head and on what he plans to do next.
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Survey: Most Americans aren’t comfortable going back to religious services
The results of the survey suggest that despite political pressure to reopen houses of worship—from President Donald Trump as well as leading conservative Christians and religious liberty advocates—Americans aren’t quite ready to take a seat in a sanctuary.
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More testing urged for Baltimore’s hard-hit Latino, African American areas
Auxiliary bishop-designate Bruce A. Lewandowski of Baltimore is appealing to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to increase free Covid-19 testing to minority neighborhoods of the city.
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Catholic educators work to ease blow of pandemic-induced school closings
With numerous closures, Catholic schools are also victims of the pandemic, and school administrators are working on the challenges of keeping other schools open and operating.
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In an interview with EWTN, Trump hails ‘tremendous letter of support from the Catholic Church’
Few questions dealt directly with Catholicism, but host Raymond Arroyo did ask the president about a letter written by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.
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Christian leaders: Israeli occupation of Palestine is cause of conflict
“It is time to act in order to extinguish the destructive fires raging in the Holy Land…. Only a just peace will put end to hatred, to oppression and the suffering of so many.”
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Women religious honored for work on pandemic’s front lines
In a recent symposium sponsored by the American and British embassies to the Holy See, women religious were recognized for being “on the front lines” in combatting the pandemic with faith, generosity, and compassion.
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The battle is not over: Rising coronavirus infections seen worldwide
In Germany, more than 1,550 people have tested positive for coronavirus at the Toennies slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck and thousands more workers and family members have been put under a quarantine to try to halt the outbreak.