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Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News
Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo, a recently announced cardinal-designate, first met Pope Francis on the first Friday of this year’s Synod on Synodality in Rome.
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Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News
In vitro fertilization is a topic that received significant national attention during the past election season as candidates made it a policy issue. A costly, but widely accepted option in society for conceiving children through artificial means, IVF also involves significant moral and ethical concerns.
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Filed Under: Colleges, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, World News
Two Jewish students were attacked on the campus of Catholic-run DePaul University in Chicago Nov. 6 and the school’s president said he was “appalled” by the incident. The attack was part of a wave of anti-Jewish hostility in the Chicago area in recent weeks.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Cardinal-designate Koovakad, 51, is the second youngest of the new cardinals the pope will create.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
Bishop Pablo Virgilio Siongco David of Kalookan, Philippines, one of the 21 cardinal-designates to be elevated at the Dec. 7 consistory at the Vatican, was thrust into the spotlight and singled out by his country’s president in 2018 at the height of a bloody government anti-drug war there.
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Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
A former Vatican doctrinal chief cast sharp criticism on the Synod on Synodality days ahead of the synod’s second and final session starting Oct. 2.
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Filed Under: News, World News
The Diocese of Buffalo, N.Y., plans to reduce the total number of its 160 parishes by 51 percent following a Sept. 10 announcement of final decisions on closures and mergers.
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Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News
Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi reportedly saved a woman’s life when he talked her into stepping off the ledge of a bridge over the river in Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 10.
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Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
The Archdiocese of Chicago announced Sept. 6 that a state investigation is underway into alleged sexual abuse by a newly ordained priest.
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Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments
After the federal government declared a health emergency in 2020 over the COVID-19 pandemic, Catholic churches in the U.S. scrambled to figure out how to provide the Eucharist, the sacrament that is the “source and summit of the Christian life” while keeping people safe from contagion.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
An Aug. 2-4 conference in Chicago on the life of the Catholic Church in China covered both the difficulties and strengths of being a church under a heavily regulatory communist government.
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Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News
A permanent pilgrim on the northern National Eucharistic Procession route heading toward Indianapolis for the National Eucharistic Congress in July said at a stop in the Chicago area that before people can encounter the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist they first have to know who Jesus is.
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