The Roman Catholic diocese where two priests were killed earlier this month has withdrawn all nuns from the hyper-violent city of Chilapa in southern Mexico.
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ISIS sees Somalia as a suitable base due to lawlessness, bishop says
“I think they have chosen Somalia because there is no central authority,” Bishop Giorgio Bertin said.
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Team USA hockey captain played for Catholic schools
Brian Gionta led Boston College to the national championships in 2001.
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Pope Francis prays for people who call him a heretic
He also said he doesn’t read the blogs devoted to leading a ‘resistance’ against him.
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Vatican denies report Pope Benedict has degenerative disease
The pope’s brother reportedly told a German magazine that Pope Benedict was sick.
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Former Olympic curling hopeful now cheering Team USA from the priesthood
Rev. Andrew Roza, a former Olympic hopeful turned vocations director for the Archdiocese of Omaha, said he’ll be talking to God about the Team USA curlers during this year’s Winter Olympics.
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‘Where is my son?’ Salvadoran woman struggles for safe haven in U.S.
Belinda described 12 years of extortion, forced criminal behavior including prostitution, and escalating violence from one of her brothers and his fellow gang members.
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Church leaders and U.N. officials decry escalating situation in Syria
As Syria’s war soon enters its eighth year, the conflict is escalating in the country’s north, between Turkey and the Kurds, and in the south, between Iran and Israel.
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U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team includes five Boston College players
Five players on the US Olympic team’s roster of 23 are from the Jesuit-run school — two are recent graduates and three are current students taking a leave of absence for the Pyeongchang Games.
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Trump’s budget proposal rejected by U.S. church leaders
To the consternation of humanitarian, health and civic activists, the budget proposal includes deep cuts or restructuring of international aid and social service programs.