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Eleven cardinals, at least four of whom will participate in the world Synod of Bishops on the family in October, have urged fellow church leaders to maintain the church’s rules regarding marriage and strengthen Catholic education about marriage and family life.

“Today as well, in the Middle East and other parts of the world, Christians are persecuted,” Pope Francus said. “There are more martyrs [today] than there were in the first centuries” of Christianity.”

The outside world is not what “makes us saints or not saints, rather it is the heart that expresses our intentions, our choices and the desire to do everything for God’s love,” Pope Francis said before praying the Angelus Aug. 30.

President Otto Perez Molina said that he would not resign and would remain in office.

“We don’t even know what state they are in, and it is painful.”

Vatican nuncio to the Dominican Republic was accused of abusing adolescent boys

When Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago received the pallium on his shoulders Aug. 23, he did so in a demonstration of unity that he said extended from the people in the pews to the bishops who joined him in the sanctuary to Pope Francis.He was invested with the pallium by Archbishop Carlo Maria

“The jubilee…serves as an economic clean slate that mirrors the forgiveness and new beginning proclaimed in the Gospels.”

Catholic aid agencies having been using various counseling techniques, even a live clown and puppets, to help the Gaza Strip’s children overcome the trauma of lost loved ones and homes in the year since the cease-fire ended the conflict.