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Pope Francis greets Cardinal Ricardo Blazquez Perez of Valladolid, Spain, during an audience with seminarians and faculty of the Pontifical Spanish College of St. Joseph at the Vatican on April 1. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handout)

Pope Francis: An ‘orderly and comfortable life’ is not a life for Christ

by Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service April 3, 2017

“The devil always comes in through the pocket, always,” the pope said.

Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad is seen at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ainkawa, Iraq, on Oct. 25, 2016. (CNS photo/Amel Pain, EPA)

Holy Week peace march in Iraq receives Chaldean patriarch support

by Dale Gavlak - Catholic News Service April 3, 2017

For the patriarch, Holy Week culminating in the Easter celebration offers a fresh hope to breathe new life into prayer and reflection, reconciliation and dialogue.

Pope Francis greets Syrian refugees he brought to Rome from the Greek island of Lesbos in April 2016 at Ciampino airport in Rome. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Vatican welcomes three new Syrian refugee families

by Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service April 3, 2017

The Vatican welcomed the refugee families after an appeal made by Pope Francis on every parish, religious community, monastery and shrine in Europe to take in a family of refugees.

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to journalists in the Oval Office at the White House on March 24 after the American Health Care Act was pulled before a vote. (CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)

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Bishops urge Congress to take bipartisan approach on health care reform

by Catholic News Service March 31, 2017

The committee chairmen also said that withdrawal of the bill “must not end our nation’s efforts to improve health care.”

Pope Francis greets Norbertine Father Bernard Ardura, president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, on March 31 at the Vatican. The pope met with scholars taking part in a Vatican-sponsored congress on the Lutheran Reformation as part of the 500th anniversary commemorating the start of Luther's call for reform. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Pope praises Catholics and Lutherans getting together to discuss Luther

by Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service March 31, 2017

The pope told the participants that his first reaction to hearing about “this praiseworthy initiative” was one of gratitude to God.

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Kidnapped Mexican priest returned, another murdered

by David Agren - Catholic News Service March 31, 2017

“We do not know the reasons why he was abducted. He did not have problems with anyone,” Father Angel Vargas Uribe said. “We are not scared.”

People watch a TV news program showing an image, published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the country's Sohae launch site, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday, March 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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North Korean refugees will be “tortured, sent to camps and killed” if they return, French priest says

by Catholic News Service March 31, 2017

Conditions have worsened for surviving Christians under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Un, said a priest working with North Korean refugees in China.

A woman gives a coin to a panhandler on Oct. 17 in Ronda, Spain. (CNS photo/Jon Nazca, Reuters)

After Pope Francis says give to beggars, a U.S. bishop says don’t

by Associated Press March 30, 2017

Bishop Thomas Tobin, who has previously criticized Francis, posted a Facebook message entitled “Three Reasons Not to Give to Panhandlers” on Tuesday.