Separatists are demanding a $50,000 ransom for the release of their victims.
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Remembering Father Albert Nolan, a best-selling theologian who explored the humanity of Christ
Father Nolan sought during his tenure to help white Catholic students find a way of working with their Black colleagues for the common goal of ending apartheid.
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Pope Francis calls Thailand daycare massacre an act of ‘unspeakable violence’
In a message sent Oct. 7 by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, the pope offered prayers for the victims “of the horrific attack” that claimed the lives of 36 people, including at least 24 children, Oct. 6.
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Catholics now outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland. Is Irish unification on the horizon?
Just below those top-line figures on religious affiliation, significant changes in national identity also become clear—29 percent of the Northern Irish population now see themselves exclusively as Irish. This is just three points behind the 32 percent who consider themselves British.
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Still no arrests more than 100 days after the murder of two Jesuits in Mexico
“Our position, after 100 days and after having recovered the bodies, is clear: We demand the municipal, state and federal authorities to be aware of their obligations.”
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Bolsonaro will accept Brazil’s election results only if he wins. The Catholic Church has to defend democracy.
South America’s largest democracy will hold presidential elections on Oct. 2 with two iconic Latin American populists as competing candidates: Mr. Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who served as president from 2003 until 2010.
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Italy could elect its first woman prime minister—and its most right-wing government since becoming a republic
For the first time in the nation’s history, a woman, Giorgia Meloni, 45, could become prime minister. She would lead Italy’s 70th government since 1946.
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Cardinal Grech: The synod ‘needs time’ on the question of married priests
In the second part of this exclusive interview, Cardinal Grech reveals in new depth the plans for the continental and Roman phases of the global synodal process.
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‘Enough is enough’: Cameroon bishops condemn recent church burning and kidnapping
Bishops in Cameroon have spoken out against a recent kidnapping of clergy and laypeople at the St. Mary’s Catholic Church, an outgrowth of separatist violence hurting the country.
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Irish Republicans praising the queen was once unthinkable. Elizabeth II changed that.
The tributes and gestures from the leaders of Irish political parties long established in the European mainstream came as no surprise. What came as something of a shock—especially to some of their supporters—were statements issued by the leaders of Sinn Féin, the party most associated with the Irish Republican Army.