A family of six that included two young children carried out deadly attacks on three churches in Indonesia on Sunday.
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Chilean bishops set to meet with Pope Francis in response to the sexual abuse crisis
In an extraordinary response to a widening sexual abuse crisis, Chilean bishops will arrive in Rome this weekend to participate in a summit called by Pope Francis, May 14 through 17.
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Inquiry or Inquisition? Another look at Father Teilhard de Chardin
The Jesuit’s approach was groundbreaking because “it was not a simple reconciliation of science and faith; it was integrating, creating a single, wholistic vision because the past danger was having a radical separation” of the two.
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Pope Francis: Never forget that Mary was a lay person
“Never forget that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a lay person and his first disciple.”
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Pope Francis takes on Mafia on anniversary of St. John Paul’s stand.
Pope John Paul II described the Mafia as “a culture of death, profoundly inhuman, anti-Gospel, an enemy of human dignity and civil peace.”
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Pope Francis was likely unaware of Guam archbishop’s presence at Rome celebration
A Vatican source explained that whenever the pope is invited to such a large public event he does not see the guest list in advance nor is the list checked by Vatican officials, as they trust the organizers of these gatherings to act in a responsible way.
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Pope Francis gets a cartoon treatment
A graphic novel about Pope Francis.
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“I was part of the problem,” Francis tells Chilean abuse victims
The pope met with three victims of Chile’s most notorious predator priest, Father Fernando Karadima
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Ross Douthat on the future of the church
Our May 2 guest is Ross Douthat, a New York Times columnist and author of To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. You can read our recent articles on him here: The Catholic Columnist: Q&A with Ross Douthat, Dear Ross Douthat: Don’t be so worried about the church. We also discuss […]
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Pope Francis: Catholic media must not fall behind in digital age
Pope Francis said that the use of new digital platforms requires a willingness to accept that “the attachment to the past may prove to be a dangerous temptation.”