Catholic Review
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Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Supreme Court, World News
About a decade after the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, overturning state laws defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the justices have been directly asked to overturn the ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, World News
The Spanish bishops’ conference was criticized by the head of Spain’s far-right VOX party after the church expressed religious concerns following a local council’s measure that would effectively ban Muslims from holding religious events in certain areas.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
Japanese Catholics were joined by four U.S. prelates — two cardinals and two archbishops — and by Catholic university leaders and students from the United States who were participating in a “Pilgrimage of Peace” to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings and to pray together for peace and for a world without nuclear weapons.
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Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News
President Donald Trump said Aug. 11 he will place the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department “under direct federal control,” activate the National Guard, and “get rid of the slums” in what he called an effort to combat crime in Washington.
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Filed Under: News, Racial Justice, Religious Freedom, World News
The National Park Service announced Aug. 4 that it will restore and reinstall a statue of a senior Confederate officer in the nation’s capital that was toppled during riots following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
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Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Ukrainian child advocate Mykola Kuleba is pleading for the Vatican’s assistance, after publicly highlighting what he said was one of several databases used by Russian occupation officials to market abducted Ukrainian children to Russian foster and adoption families.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador issued a pair of petitions for lawmakers during a Mass celebrated for the feast of the Divine Savior, observed in the country to commemorate the Transfiguration. Both petitions ventured into the realm of politics.
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Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
Catholics have lauded the recent signing of a state law that makes it a felony to procure sex from a 16- or 17-year-old minor in the state of California.
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Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, Local News, News
The 410 firearms collected during the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s third annual gun buyback Aug. 9 exceeded expectations and boosted hopes of ending gun violence. The day’s urgency was underscored hours later when a mass shooting in Park Heights left a 38-year-old man dead and injured four other adults and a 5-year-old girl.
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Filed Under: News, World News
Calm seas and a gentle breeze helped to carry the Stonington fishing fleet out past Stonington Point July 27 for the Holy Cross Community’s annual Blessing of the Fleet, a tradition dating back 70 years.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
As U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to meet in Alaska Aug. 15, Pope Leo XIV prayed that world leaders would recognize the impact their actions have on the local population.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview
In this episode of Catholic Review Radio, Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Joseph Hazboun, regional director for Catholic Near East Welfare Association, a pontifical mission. Hazboun says the situation in the Gaza Strip is unspeakably tragic.
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