Few expected that the waters off Ireland’s southwestern coast would become a potential front in a confrontation with the Russian Federation. But that is exactly what happened at the end of January.
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Afghan refugees find welcome at Franciscan retreat center in New Mexico: ‘We see this as part of the Gospel call’
“Pope Francis has said to reach out to the margins and help those who are in need, the refugees, the displaced. And we have a retreat center that has lots of space.”
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Two nuns have a message for Catholics angry about their ministry to immigrants: ‘We don’t have any intention of stopping.’
“I’m mystified by any group that would call itself Catholic that is attacking the Catholic Church and its ministry,” Sister Donna Markham, the president and C.E.O. of Catholic Charities USA, said.
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Migrants at the U.S. border are often traumatized. JRS provides the mental health services they desperately need.
The limbo experienced by asylum seekers waiting to be admitted to the United States and the traumatic experiences that forced them to leave their home country in the first place take a profound psychological toll.
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The Catholic students who build a chapel out of ice—and celebrate Mass in the snow
When winter regularly throws you more than 200 inches of snow, make an ice chapel.
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Tania Tetlow named Fordham University’s first lay woman president
Tania Tetlow, who in 2018 became the first woman and first layperson to serve as president of Loyola University New Orleans, is set to repeat history.
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Truck protest against vaccine mandates is polarizing Canada — and clergy have mixed reactions
The main body of protesters continued a diesel-rumbling siege of Parliament Hill, igniting fire pits on city streets and sounding truck horns at all hours, driving local residents to despair.
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Bishop Flores loves his dog—but he thinks Pope Francis is right about pets
The alleged papal puppy putdown raised the question: Is there a spiritual component to owning an animal?
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A priest calls out violence against the poor and homeless in Brazil: ‘We have to move from hostility to hospitality’
The Rev. Júlio Lancellotti is São Paulo’s designated vicar for street people. He has been posting images of spikes and other elements of hostile architecture gathered from cell phone photos or video from all over Brazil.
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A bombshell report on sex abuse left France ‘flabbergasted.’ Yet most French Catholics still believe there is hope for reform
The report landed on French Catholics like a bomb. French bishops had never considered sexual abuse a serious problem. “We have been in denial for 20 years,” Father Goujon said. “The bishops said that [that kind of abuse] could never happen here.”