A church that can welcome homeless people only at their best will be a church where everybody fears to show their weaknesses.
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Puerto Rico Archbishop: We’re still in a state of emergency
“We still need water, we still need food, we still need clothing,” Archbishop Roberto González Nieves said
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Head of U.S. bishops: We must resist the division caused by hot-button issues
The theme of division in the church and in society has been frequently invoked during the bishops’ deliberations this week.
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Vatican secretary of state to U.S. bishops: Resist ego and fight polarization
Cardinal Parolin’s visit comes at a time when internal divisions among U.S. Catholics have become public.
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U.S. bishops may discuss GOP tax plan, guns & what it means to be ‘pro-life’ at annual meeting
Much of the business appears to be routine, though the bishops as a body have been vocal in recent months about a range of political and social issues, as well as internal church politics, that are sure to come up during the meeting.
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U.S. Bishops: “unconscionable” tax bill raises taxes on the poor to pay for cuts for the wealthy
The bishops said the tax proposal “appears to be the first federal income tax modification in American history that will raise income taxes on the working poor while simultaneously providing a large tax cut to the wealthy.”
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World leaders are meeting at the Vatican to discuss nuclear weapons. Here’s why.
A Vatican conference represents the beginning of a coordination of Catholic universities, institutions and bishops’s conferences on this issue.
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Responding to Texas church shooting, U.S. bishops renew call for gun control
There are signs that at least among some U.S. Catholic bishops, statements of grief and sorrow are being backed up with pledges to push for legislative action on guns.
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Dissent, Now & Then: Thomas Weinandy and the meaning of Jesuit discernment
Father Weinandy surely wrote his letter out of a heartfelt desire to help the church. But in doing so, he belied a misunderstanding of one of the basic elements of Pope Francis’ teaching.
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An open letter to Father Weinandy, from his predecessor, on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ and Pope Francis
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger urged that dissent from ordinary Magisterium should be disclosed privately to church authority.