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Paulina Guzik

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Pope sends $67,000 to Gaza parish, with $35,000 raised in one day from synod delegates


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OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News

As the Holy Land marked a grim first anniversary Oct. 7 of the Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities and subsequent Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the Gaza Strip, the papal almoner raised $35,000 in one afternoon from delegates to the Synod on Synodality and immediately sent it to Holy Family Parish in Gaza City.

Abuse survivor after giving his testimony at synod’s penitential liturgy: ‘it helped me to be able to find compassion’


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OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News

The penitential liturgy with Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica Oct. 1 opened with testimonies of those who have faced great suffering, among those a survivor of clergy sexual abuse. Laurence Gien, who was 11 when he was sexually abused by a priest in his native South Africa, told OSV News that standing in front of bishops, cardinals and Pope Francis himself, giving testimony about his lifetime trauma, was his way of “just trying to appeal to their better selves.”

Vatican communications prefect on using Rupnik art: ‘I don’t think we have to throw stones’


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OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, Vatican, World News

On the final day of the Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta, the prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication addressed questions posed by journalists about the dicastery’s regular practice of posting art by Father Marko Rupnik — a Rome-based priest accused of sexually abusing multiple women — on the Vatican News website and social media, especially to illustrate church feast days.

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