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Are the rich to blame for South Africa’s drought?

by Bronwen Dachs - Catholic News Service March 6, 2018

“It is you rich people who have finished the water, and now you want us to share the consequences.”

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Explosive devices detonated in Mexican border churches

by David Agren - Catholic News Service March 6, 2018

The bishop of Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, has expressed alarm after two church explosions within four days.

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Catholics celebrate nation’s newest cathedral, growth of church in South

by Dan McWilliams - Catholic News Service March 6, 2018

The Diocese of Knoxville dedicated the country’s newest cathedral on March 3 during a special Mass which celebrated the growth of the Catholic Church in this region of the United States.

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Bishops call for comprehensive gun reform

by Catholic News Service March 6, 2018

The voices of the Parkland shooting survivors “should ring in our ears,” the bishops said.

German Cardinal Walter Kasper, retired president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, arrives for the concluding session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican in October 2014. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Cardinal Kasper: Quit throwing around the word ‘heretic’

by Michael J. O’Loughlin March 5, 2018

Cardinal Kasper rejected claims from some Catholics who accuse Pope Francis of undermining church teaching on marriage.

A combine harvests wheat near a wind turbine close to Lincoln, Kan., in this 2008 file photo. Two religious communities were pleased that two Midwest utilities recently agreed to publish climate risk assessment reports in alignment with the Paris climate accord. (CNS photo/Larry W. Smith, EPA) See SHAREHOLDERS-CLIMATE March 2, 2018.

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Religious sisters convince Midwest utilities’ company to take action on climate change.

by Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service March 5, 2018

“It’s up to shareholders to put before corporations how important it is to work on less emissions.”

Pope Francis greets people during an audience with Italian nurses in Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 3. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) See POPE-NURSES March 5, 2018.

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Pope Francis pays tribute to nurse who saved his life

by Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service March 5, 2018

“I thank her and I want you to know her name: Sister Cornelia Caraglio.”

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The last government shutdown -- well, threatened shutdown, anyway -- seems so long ago. The nine-hour "funding lapse" of Feb. 9, like the three-day shutdown that began Jan. 20, hinged on how Congress was going to address the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that President Donald Trump said he would end March 5. He also called on Congress to pass a measure to save the program, created in 2012 by President Barack Obama via executive order. In the January shutdown, Democrati

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Update: Immigrants, advocates navigating post-DACA-deadline landscape

by Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service March 5, 2018

In the January shutdown, Democratic lawmakers backed down on their threat to keep the government closed until a DACA deal was reached. ment funded through March 23 was overshadowed by the $1 trillion spending package of which it was a part.