Senior Catholic sources told ucanews.com that Pope Francis would arrive in Myanmar Nov. 27 for four nights.
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Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock the island of Guam
The complaints detail alleged attacks from 1955 through 1994 and claim some religious leaders knew of the exploitation and ignored it.
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Pipeline protesters cite Catholic Worker movement as inspiration
“We chose to take these actions after seeing the continued desecration of the Earth, which we are to be stewards of,” Ms. Montoya told America.
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Vatican to Marduro: Respect the will of the people and keep Venezuela’s current constitution
The Vatican urged Maduro “to suspend ongoing initiatives such as the new Constituent Assembly, which, rather than fostering reconciliation and peace, encourages a climate of tension and confrontation and mortgages the future.”
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Solanus Casey’s remains exhumed, relics collected ahead of beatification Mass
The remains of Father Solanus Casey were exhumed Aug. 1 as part of the canonical process that precedes the saintly Capuchin Franciscan friar’s beatification Mass in November.
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Notre Dame great Ara Parseghian was a supporter of school’s Catholic faith
Legendary University of Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian died Aug. 2 at age 94.
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Gene editing: Gateway to Promised Land or key to Pandora’s box?
Yonat Shimron interviews Arthur Caplan, the founding head of the Division of Bioethics at New York University, about the ramifications of a recent breakthrough in embryonic gene editing.
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Excommunication could be tool for fighting corruption, organized crime
A Vatican consultation group considers how to excommunicate the Mafia, other similar criminal organizations, the possibly of excommunication for corruption.
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Top US bishop urges Trump to quickly act to ease contraceptive mandate
Cardinal DiNardo lamented that after three months no steps have yet been taken to erase the HHS mandate since Trump’s pledge ease the mandate.
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Islamic school seeks to steer sons of militants to new path
At the Al Hidayah Islamic boarding school, founder Khairul Ghazali wants to prevent the sons of Islamic militants from becoming the next generation of Indonesian jihadists.