A 15th-century copy of a letter Christopher Columbus sent to his royal patrons describing the riches of the New World has been returned to its rightful owner — the Vatican.
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Listen to those in need, pope says in World Day of Poor message
The World Day of the Poor — to be marked each year on the 33rd Sunday of ordinary time — will be celebrated Nov. 18 this year and will focus on a verse from Psalm 34, “This poor one cried out and the Lord heard.”
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Chilean church offices raided as part of sex abuse probe
Prosecutor Emiliano Arias, who led the search in Santiago, said the church raids show that in Chile “we are all subject to common justice.”
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Bishops and Southern Baptists agree: Trump’s immigration policies are unjust.
U.S. bishops may be prepared for a stronger pushback against Trump administration policies that are being criticized as cruel and outside the U.S. tradition on the welcoming of immigrants and the treatment of people seeking protection from harm.
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A Catholic Facebook group posted an anti-Semitic meme. What can we learn from this?
The issue at the heart of this debacle is the slur “Christ-killer.”
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Church praised for proactive response on abuse, but warned of potential complacency
Despite groundbreaking steps the U.S. Catholic Church has taken to prevent the sexual abuse of minors in the past 16 years, a potential “complacency” in following safety protocols could pose a challenge to those hard-won advances.
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Australia Prime Minister to make national apology to victims of sexual abuse
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will deliver a national apology to child sex abuse victims, as part of the government’s response to a long-running inquiry that heard allegations against government and private institutions and prominent individuals in five years of hearings.
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AMA delegates vote for continued review of assisted suicide policy
The American Medical Association House of Delegates voted 314-243 not to affirm the report of the organization’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs to maintain the AMA’s long-held opposition to assisted suicide.
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Vatican team returns to Chile to ‘ask forgiveness’ for clergy sex abuse
The archbishop said his team’s pastoral mission includes providing “concrete technical and legal assistance to the dioceses in Chile so they may give adequate responses to each case of sexual abuse of minors committed by clergy or religious.”
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‘Tag’ movie based on three-decade chase game of Jesuit school friends
A group of Catholic high school friends has kept in touch — literally — since graduating more than 30 years ago from Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Washington.