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The slum pope and the billionaire: Pope Francis to meet with President Trump

by Nicole Winfield - Associated Press May 4, 2017

Oh, to be a fly on the wall.

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Alongside Catholic leaders, President Trump signs executive order on religious liberty, health care

by Michael J. O’Loughlin May 4, 2017

One of Trump’s orders instructs the Internal Revenue Service not to enforce a rule that bars churches from engaging in partisan politics.

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President Trump will visit the Vatican on his first trip abroad

by Associated Press May 4, 2017

President Donald Trump’s first foreign trip will include stops in Israel, the Vatican and Saudi Arabia before visits to NATO and a summit in Italy.

Activists of the collective Yellow Safety Jacket take part in an anti-euthanasia protest on Feb. 11, 2014, in Brussels. (CNS photo/Julien Warnand, EPA)

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Belgian Brothers to allow euthanasia in psychiatric care centers

by Simon Caldwell - Catholic News Service May 4, 2017

The Brothers of Charity Group stated that it would allow doctors to perform euthanasia in any of its 15 centers, which provide care to more than 5,000 patients a year, subject to carefully stipulated criteria.

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Pope Francis will beatify Wisconsin-born Capuchin Father Solanus Casey

by Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service May 4, 2017

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of Father Casey, five religious, four laypeople and two cardinals, including Vietnamese Cardinal Francois Nguyen Van Thuan.

Connie Johnson, center, chairwoman of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, campaigns against the death penalty in an Oklahoma City neighborhood on Oct. 16, 2016. RNS photo by Bobby Ross Jr.

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The death penalty is a “just form of punishment,” Oklahoma residents say

by Bobby Ross Jr. - Religion News Service May 3, 2017

Oklahomans overwhelmingly support capital punishment, despite highly publicized problems with lethal-injection drugs that prompted state officials to put a temporary moratorium on executions in 2015.

ishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, N.M., gestures during a March 23 meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State Department in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

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Bishops look to Tillerson to ensure fair elections in Congo

by Catholic News Service May 3, 2017

The Congolese bishops voiced their concern over rising tension in Congo after President Joseph Kabila unilaterally nominated Bruno Tshibala as prime minister over the objection of opposition parties.

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Nancy Pelosi says pro-life Americans are welcome in Democratic Party

by Michael J. O’Loughlin May 3, 2017

“Most of those people—my family, extended family—are not pro-choice. You think I’m kicking them out of the Democratic Party?”

Girl Scout Julia Ocasio, 13, and Boy Scout Thomas Perotta, 10, use collection baskets during a Scout Sunday Mass on Feb. 7 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood of the New York borough of Brooklyn. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

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Girl Scouts no longer “compatible” with Gospel, Archdiocese of Kansas City says

by Associated Press May 2, 2017

The Archdiocese of Kansas City said that Girl Scouts is “no longer a compatible partner in helping us form young women with the virtues and values of the Gospel.”