When choosing to believe is more and more a revolutionary act, religious education must do much more than hand on the basic tenets of the faith.
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Brazilian priest: Prisons are a ‘factory of torture that creates monsters’
"Prison is a place of death and torture," in Brazil, said Father Silveira. "It is a factory of torture that creates monsters."
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Irish activists seize an abandoned Dublin office on behalf of the city’s homeless
The illegal occupation came at the end of a year during which Ireland has seen record numbers forced onto the streets.
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Pope Francis calls on the world’s governments for peace and an openness to refugees
Migrants and refugees must be given a dignified welcome, the pope said in his New Year’s message.
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Cardinal Tobin calls on Catholics to move away from ‘hot button’ issues
Cardinal Tobin said that Christians must be marked by their willingness to show “kindness to all: to the searching young and the forgotten elderly, to the stranger and the voiceless, to the powerful and the cynical.”
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Pope Francis gathers Rome’s homeless to celebrate Epiphany.
Francis said he too wanted to give the faithful the gift of God's mercy for the coming year.
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Who will be Donald Trump’s real opposition? Maybe the state of California.
The real alternative government in the United States is not the federal Democratic Party, but the state government of California.
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These nuns are gathering before Donald Trump’s inauguration to pray for peace
Sister Rita Petruziello said she could feel the contention and nastiness in the air during the presidential election campaign of the last year
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Pope Francis: It’s time to fix overcrowded prisons
The pope invited everyone to pray for all prisoners in the world, and that prisons focus on rehabilitation.
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Syrian government cuts water supply to its own capital after battle with rebels
The cut-off is a major challenge to the government’s effort throughout the nearly 6-year-old civil war to keep the capital as insulated as possible.