The “Stations of the Cross” caravans began as short Eater-season protests against the kidnappings, extortions, beatings and killings suffered by many Central American migrants as they cross Mexico.
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One Chinese bishop’s fate shows the Communist Party’s power
It also highlights how high-level deliberations in the marble-columned splendor of the Vatican City and in Beijing’s walled leadership compound could have reverberations in places like rural Saiqi for generations to come.
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On Easter, Salvadorans bury priest assassinated during Holy Week
The killing has shaken Catholic Church officials, who say they still do not know what led to the assassination or what it means for the church.
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Easter hope breaks routine, unleashes creativity, Pope Francis says
“Do we want to share in this message of life,” he asked in his homily, “or do we prefer simply to continue standing speechless before events as they happen?”
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Salvadoran priest assassinated during Holy Week
Authorities said Father Walter Vasquez Jimenez was traveling with parishioners March 29 to officiate a Holy Thursday Mass in San Miguel when their car was stopped by an armed group wearing masks. The other passengers were set free after their belongings were taken, but Father Vasquez was abducted, shot and left to die.
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Pope Francis: Jesus’ church offers truth, comfort despite efforts to discredit it
There is hope “because from your cross—the fruit of greed and cowardice of many doctors of the law and hypocrites—came the resurrection,” which turned darkness into eternal light and shows that Jesus’ love is their hope, Pope Francis said.
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Fasting with Farmworkers: Agriculture’s #MeToo moment
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a Florida-based farmworker group, led a “Freedom Fast” to draw attention to the epidemic of sexual assault and harassment of farmworker women and to the C.I.W.’s ongoing boycott of the fast-food chain Wendy’s.
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What’s the buzz? A live version of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ on Easter
The show stars popular singers John Legend as Jesus and Sara Bareilles, who was raised Catholic, as Mary Magdalene, and features 1970s rock figure Alice Cooper as Herod.
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Vatican: Claim that pope denied hell’s existence is unreliable
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell.”
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Pope Francis to priests: Don’t idolize truth, be close to people
The pope urged priests to be “street preachers” like Jesus.