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.
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Here’s how the church in India is supporting transgender people.
India has an estimated 500,000 transgender people.
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Pope Francis to world’s bishops: Maintain ‘zero tolerance’ for child abuse
“It is a sin that shames us,” Pope Francis wrote. “Persons responsible for the protection of those children destroyed their dignity.”
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Yemen’s children starve as war drags on
"I have already lost a cousin to malnutrition today, I can't lose my little brother," 19-year-old Mohammed Ali says.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson and Father Pfleger lead a protest to end to Chicago’s violence on New Year’s Eve
Each of the participants carried wooden crosses bearing the names of victims.