With today’s announcement, President Trump has dispelled any thought that he can broker an agreement in the disputatious Holy Land.
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Yes, you have to go to Mass twice this Christmas (Sunday and Monday).
The U.S. bishops already saw this coming at the beginning of the year and said Catholics should attend separate Masses for the two days.
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Los Angeles bishops ask for prayers for families and firefighters facing devastating blaze
News reports said that flames prompted evacuation orders for nearly 200,000 people, destroyed nearly 200 homes and remained mostly out control as of early Dec. 6. To date, officials had reported no fatalities.
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U.S. Bishops: G.O.P. tax plan violates ‘basic principles of justice’
The letter called for a reversal of the bill’s plan to gradually increase taxes on taxpayers in the lowest income brackets while maintaining tax cuts for higher earners, including the most wealthy.
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Court allows travel ban to be implemented as legal challenges continue
The Supreme Court’s order means that the Trump administration can fully carry out the ban — which is now in its third iteration.
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Canadian court case is a ‘turning point for religious freedom’
“We are standing on an abyss of a revolutionary change on how religions have operated in Canada.”
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Pope Francis makes his letter to Argentine bishops on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ part of the official record
Pope Francis said the bishops’ document “explains precisely the meaning of Chapter VIII of ‘Amoris Laetitia.’
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President Trump drastically cuts national monument sacred to Native Americans
The presidential proclamations would cut the monument by 85 percent.
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Meghan Markle’s high school teachers remember her service and advocacy for women
Markle, recently engaged to Prince Harry, was a Kairos retreat leader and was close with her theology teacher, a former Catholic Worker.
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Catholic leaders call for ‘repentance and atonement’ between North Korea and South Korea
The call came just before the U.S. and South Korea opened a massive joint military air exercise Dec. 4.