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Bishops decry worsening conditions and criticize the national government for ignoring it.
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The Council for the Economy will include eight cardinals and bishops and seven lay experts.
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As states strike down same-sex marriage bans, Archbishop Cordileone seeks constitutional remedy.
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Pope Francis and 150 Cardinals discuss ministry to divorced and remarried Catholics.
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Christ calls us to "travel the long, difficult, but liberating road to reconciliation."
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The church must help people recognize "how beautiful, true and good it is to start a family."
Pope Francis met for the third time in late February with his international Council of Cardinals, an eight-member group advising him on the reform of the Vatican bureaucracy and other issues. The Feb. 17-19 meetings focused on financial and bureaucratic matters even as the council was rumored to be
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A woman religious and two Catholic peace activists were sentenced to prison for several years for breaking into a Tennessee nuclear weapons facility and defacing its walls in July 2012.Sister Megan Rice, 84, of Washington, a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, was sentenced on Feb. 18 to
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Violent confrontations between protesters and police left more than two dozen people dead.
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Reforms are aimed at forcing millions of people capable of work off unemployment benefits.