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Rene Brulhart, director of Vatican's Financial Intelligence Authority (CNS photo/Massimiliano Migliorato, Catholic Press Photo)
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Francis dismisses all-Italian five-member board of Vatican’s financial watchdog.
In All Things
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The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation voted in early June to encourage the ldquo lifting of the restrictions regarding the ordination of married men to the priesthood in the Eastern Catholic Churches of North America rdquo ldquo This action would affirm the ancient and leg
PERSECUTED COMMUNITY. Pakistani Christians at a protest rally in 2013 to condemn a suicide attack on All Saints Church in Peshawar.
Signs Of the Times
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Nations singled out for deteriorating records on religious liberty.
Adolfo Nicolas and friend
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Thousands around the world have appealed for the freedom of Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, a pregnant Sudanese woman sentenced to death for “apostasy” because she converted to Christianity when she married a Christan. • “No investigation of a criminal nature is being conducted…i
Pope Francis greets Brazilian Cardinal Aviz during private audience at Vatican. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)
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Anytime there are misunderstandings, errors or problems concerning religious orders, dialogue is the best way to deal with the situation, said the head of the Vatican office that oversees the world’s religious orders. “At times there are things that either may not have been understood or
A farmer pulls a cart transporting grains on a rice paddy field near a cement factory just outside Hanoi, Vietnam. (CNS pho to/Kham, Reuters)
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Many cannot afford protections to shield them from extreme forces of nature.
Jesuit Father Michael Schultheis distributes Communion during Mass held in a camp for internally displaced families inside a U.N. base in Juba, South Sudan. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
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South Sudan’s religious congregations urged the country’s political leaders to ensure that the latest peace agreement holds, and they condemned the atrocities and violence carried out by both government forces and rebel groups over the past five months. “Too much blood has been she
Walter Kasper
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Cardinal rebukes L.C.W.R.'s futuristic ideas as “opposed to Christian revelation.”
Bartholomew of Constantinople
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When Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople meets Pope Francis in Jerusalem on May 25, one of their main discussion topics will be the “diminishing Christian minorities in the Middle East,” the patriarch told Catholic News Service. • The Catholic bishops’ conf
Marie Collins and Cardinal O'Malley, members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, at a Vatican briefing (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)
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The new papal commission for protecting minors from clerical sex abuse will recommend stricter standards for accountability of abusers and those who fail to protect children, and will fight widespread denial of the problem within the church, said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, O.F.M.Cap., of Bosto