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“The crisis in Syria is now in its fifth year, and the neighboring countries where we’ve been providing assistance are running out of resources,” said Kim Pozniak, communications officer for Catholic Relief Service.

“May Every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary of Europe, take in one family” Pope Francis appealed.

It is the fiat of the local bishop whether to allow the priests in his diocese to absolve those sins that result in automatic excommunication.

Workers across India are upset about labor policies they say are detrimental to their welfare, said Bishop Oswald Lewis of Jaipur.

Pope Francis will get a glimpse of leafy Central Park and thousands of waving New Yorkers on Sept. 25 when he makes “a historic procession” through the urban landmark.

A new survey by Pew Research finds most Catholics, no matter what their family structure, are comfortable with a wide variety of family arrangements that the church does not encourage.

“The California drought is so bad, people in Napa are asking the pope to change the wine into water.”

In an extraordinary gesture for the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has extended to priests worldwide the authority to absolve women for the sin of abortion and has decreed the full validity during the year of the sacrament of confession celebrated by priests of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X.

Pope Francis held a “virtual town hall” with Catholics in Chicago, Los Angeles and McAllen, Texas, in advance of his Sept. 22-27 visit to the United States.