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Chaz Muth

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White involvement in racial justice work is key, Catholic leaders say


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

Although 2020 protests addressing racial disparity followed more than a century of civil liberty struggles in the U.S., more white Americans have been among the crowds of demonstrators in the more recent movement demanding racial equality than in the past, something many Catholic leaders believe is key.

Eucharistic revival could ‘move needle’ on understanding of Real Presence


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Evangelization, Feature, News, Video, World News

A 2019 Pew Research Center study showed that 69% of all self-identified U.S. Catholics said they believed the bread and wine used at Mass are not Jesus, but instead are “symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.” The other 31% said they believed in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Bishop Madden among leaders concerned about rising gun violence, need for ‘commonsense’ gun laws


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Urban Vicariate, Video

“I don’t believe that requiring gun registration and background checks is infringing on someone’s liberties,” Bishop Madden told CNS. “Some of the language hurled in these debates is disturbing to me, because it seems to discount the value of the lives lost to gun violence.”