The fight against poverty and social inequalities, as well as harsh criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic dictated this year’s Cry of the Excluded protests.
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Vatican: Educational alliance needed to confront pandemic challenges
In a letter to L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, the head of the Congregation for Catholic Education called for an alliance between secular and Catholic educational institutions to confront the challenges caused by the pandemic.
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Mass at racetrack among offerings during Colombia’s monthslong lockdown
In Bogota, Columbia, a priest who was unable to celebrate Mass in his parish accepted a company’s invitation to conduct “a drive-in Mass” at an old racetrack.
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At Mexican camp near U.S. border, asylum-seekers grow more desperate
Sister Norma Pimentel says that migrants that come for help ask for safety as well as sustenance.
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U.S.C.C.B. urges Congress, White House to reach COVID-19 relief deal
Archishop Paul S. Coakley, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Domestic Justice and Development, is urging the Congress and the White House to come to an agreement on a COVID relief program.
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Cardinal calls for resettlement of asylum-seekers from Greek island
Amidst a pandemic, migrants suffer even more, as evident in the experiences of those in a Greek island camp.
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Pope Francis: Defeat Covid-19 by working for the common good
Pope Francis: “A virus that does not recognize barriers, borders or cultural or political distinctions must be faced with a love without barriers, borders or distinctions.”
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Podcast: Missed Pope Francis’ Covid catechesis? Listen to our summary.
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle unpacks Francis’ central ideas of community, the universal destination of goods and care for the environment.
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Pope Francis: Gossip is a tool of the devil to divide the church
Gossip is “a plague worse than COVID,” Pope Francis said, asserting that while speaking ill of others comes almost naturally, it is a tool of the devil to divide the church.
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Pope Francis’ fall schedule: No foreign trips, but plenty of appointments
While the COVID-19 pandemic has put the brakes on most foreign travel and many in-person meetings, Pope Francis still has some major events on his fall 2020 agenda.