“Creating space for a variety of pastoral responses is not decentralization. It’s a response to the realities in which people live.”
Vatican
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Here’s what the Vatican is doing for International Women’s Day
“Voices of Faith” might be the most extraordinary event you’ve never heard of.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Wuerl: Pope Francis has reconnected the church with Vatican II
Reconnecting the church “with the energy of the Second Vatican Council,” may be the pope’s greatest achievement, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington said in an exclusive interview as the fourth anniversary of the pope’s election approaches.
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Alleged Vatican resistance to child protection a ‘cliche,’ Cardinal says
“I think this cliche must be put to an end: the idea that the pope, who wants the reform, is on one side and, on the other, a group of resisters who want to block it.”
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Vatican workshop: Focus on profit and fossil fuels is a bigger threat to the earth than population growth
Solutions should focus more on correcting unjust systems and selfish behaviors than population control.
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Abuse survivor quits protection commission, says Vatican wasn’t protecting children and vulnerable adults
Marie Collins, one of the founding members and the last remaining abuse survivor on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, has quit.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis warns of a ‘major world war for water’
Addressing 90 experts from many countries, Francis said that “all people have a right to safe drinking water.”
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Vatican and Islamic leaders offer “realistic” ways to end terrorism
Representatives of al-Azhar and the Vatican outlined steps to fight terrorism and terrorist organizations.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Top Vatican Legal Expert: Pope Francis opens the door to Communion for Catholics in irregular marriages
“Amoris Laetitia” addresses the reality of Catholics in “non-legitimate unions” and opens the possibility for them to receive the Eucharist under certain conditions.
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Cardinal Burke will preside over trial investigating Guam archbishop
Three men have publicly accused Archbishop Apuron of sexually abusing them when they were altar boys in the 1970s