“Do not allow the humanity, the human sin of the church to blot out who it is that we believe in and who [it is that] comes to us, Jesus Christ,” Bishop Shelton said in a recent conversation with Gloria Purvis.
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Archbishop Shelton Fabre on wokeness and the prophetic anger of Black Catholics
A conversation with Pope Francis’ pick to head the Diocese of Louisville on having courageous conversations about race and the Catholic Church.
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Father Jacques E. Fabre to be Charleston’s first Black bishop
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone of Charleston, South Carolina, and named as his successor Scalabrinian Father Jacques E. Fabre.
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Kentucky’s new archbishop has led the Catholic Church’s fight against racism
A Louisiana bishop who has led efforts against racism was named on Tuesday as the archbishop for the Archdiocese of Louisville in Kentucky.
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Cincinnati and Los Angeles bishops face off with Super Bowl bets to raise money for Catholic schools
In what has become something of a tradition, the archbishops of the two cities that will face off in next week’s Super Bowl have placed a wager on the game.
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Fourth Anglican bishop in less than a year received into Catholic Church
Peter Forster, 71, is the fourth Anglican bishop to be received into the Catholic faith in less than a year and the fifth to become a Catholic in the past two years.
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Cardinal Marx: Having married priests ‘would be better for everyone’
“For some priests, it would be better if they were married—not just for sexual reasons, but because it would be better for their life and they wouldn’t be lonely,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx said in a newspaper interview.
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Communion war returns with dueling op-eds by Las Vegas bishop and pro-choice Catholic politician
Bishop George L. Thomas said he would not ask priests to police the Communion line but asked pro-choice politicians to voluntarily “refrain from the reception of Holy Communion while holding public office.”
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Top European cardinal: Church teaching on gay people ‘no longer correct’
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich said it was time for a fundamental revision of church teaching, and the way Pope Francis had spoken about homosexuality in the past could lead to a change in doctrine.
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Archbishop Viganò’s ‘conspiracy theories’ about Covid-19 rebuked by Italian military chaplain
Italy’s Catholic military chaplain has pushed back strongly against calls by a former Vatican ambassador to resist Covid-19 vaccine mandates, saying the ambassador’s “conspiracy theories” were a source of confusion and disinformation.