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Catholic News Agency | 5/23/2018 | Staff
Philadelphia, Pa., May 23, 2018 / 06:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Several bishops from outside Germany have critiqued a proposal to allow Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive communion in German...
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Taylor Marshall | 5/21/2018 | Dr Taylor Marshall
Why did “tongues of fire” appear on the first Pentecost? How does it relate to Heaven and the Temple? (And why do Catholic bishops wear those pointy hats? Let’s find out: Our Catholic feast of...
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wdtprs.com | 5/23/2018 | View all posts by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf →There are two kinds of Jesuits, and Ottawa’s Archbp. Terrence Prendergast is one of them. He recently said some things that make a lot of sense about the nonsensical German bishops and their deeply...
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Settimo Cielo | 5/22/2018 | Staff
The glitches, the silences, the inconsistencies of the Vatican communications media often reveal serious divisions at the highest levels of the hierarchy. This is what has happened in recent days,...
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First Things | 5/22/2018 | Philip Lawler
With the mass resignation of 34 Chilean bishops, we have reached the decisive moment of the Francis pontificate. How Pope Francis responds to this unprecedented gesture will determine how history...
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wdtprs.com | 5/21/2018 | View all posts by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf →A few bishops have blogs. A few blogs of bishops are worth looking at. Here is a blog post on a bishop’s blog which every bishop should read. Most Rev. Thomas E.
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Breitbart | 5/19/2018 | Staff
The entire body of the Chilean Catholic bishops’ conference—34 bishops in all—submitted signed resignations to Pope Francis this week over the country’s clerical sex abuse crisis.
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OnePeterFive | 5/18/2018 | Steve Skojec
Was going to write a post about this. Decided a quick video would be faster on a Friday afternoon. Please feel free to share your own thoughts in the comments. Have a good weekend, everyone! GET -...
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DW.COM | 3/13/2013 | StaffFollowing damning revelations over sex abuse by pedophile priests in Chile, the entire bishops' conference of the South American country offered to step down on Friday.
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Catholic News Agency | 5/18/2018 | Staff
Vatican City, May 18, 2018 / 06:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- At the close of their 3-day meeting with Pope Francis, all Chilean bishops asked victims of the country's abuse scandal for forgiveness and...
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The Deacon's Bench | 5/18/2018 | Staff
Details: Every Chilean bishop offered to resign Friday over a sex abuse and cover-up scandal, in the biggest shakeup ever in the Catholic Church’s long-running abuse saga.
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Religion News Service | 5/18/2018 | Nicole Winfield
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Every Chilean bishop offered to resign Friday over a sex abuse and cover-up scandal, in the biggest shakeup ever in the Catholic Church’s long-running abuse saga.
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www.yahoo.com | 5/18/2018 | Staff
He said the problem wasn't limited to a group of people, but can be traced to the training Chilean priests receive in seminary, blaming the "profound fracture" within the church on the seminaries...
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www.oann.com | 5/17/2018 | StaffVATICAN CITY (Reuters) – All 34 Chilean bishops who attended a crisis meeting this week with Pope Francis about the cover-up of sexual abuse in their country have offered their resignation, the...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/17/2018 | Staff
Mexico City, Mexico, May 17, 2018 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The bishops of Mexico have announced a pastoral project to strengthen the country’s Christian identity in preparation for significant...
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rorate-caeli.blogspot.com | 9/17/1983 | StaffIt is sad when the above headline is news. Yet, it is almost impossible to find bishops (or priests) -- outside of traditional Latin Mass circles -- talking about this subject.
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Catholic News Agency | 5/16/2018 | Staff
Abuja, Nigeria, May 16, 2018 / 05:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Nigeria’s Catholic bishops have called on each of the nation’s dioceses to organize peaceful processions May 22 in solidarity with the...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/15/2018 | Staff
Vatican City, May 15, 2018 / 02:45 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis discussed the state of the Church with Taiwan’s bishops this week, while assuring them that episcopal appointments in China will...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/15/2018 | Staff
Vatican City, May 15, 2018 / 12:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At the end of his morning homily Tuesday, Pope Francis asked Catholics to pray for priests, bishops, and the pope, who he said, must learn to...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/15/2018 | Staff
Vatican City, May 15, 2018 / 11:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On their first day of meetings with Pope Francis, Chilean bishops have been asked to make a 24-hour retreat, using the time to pray and...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/14/2018 | Staff
Oklahoma City, Okla., May 14, 2018 / 06:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With the signing of a bill preserving the religious freedom of adoption agencies in Oklahoma, Gov.
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Catholic News Agency | 5/14/2018 | Staff
Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 14, 2018 / 05:01 pm (ACI Prensa).- As the Argentine congress debates legalizing abortion up to 14 weeks of pregnancy, the country's bishops called for a special time of...
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Religion News Service | 5/14/2018 | Emily McFarlan Miller
(RNS) — United Methodist Church activists who sharply disagree about whether to ordain LGBT clergy or officiate same-sex marriages do agree on one point: A plan recommended by the Council of Bishops...
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rorate-caeli.blogspot.com | 9/17/1983 | StaffIt is sad when the above headline is news. Yet, it is almost impossible to find bishops (or priests) -- outside of traditional Latin Mass circles -- talking about this subject.
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Catholic News Agency | 5/14/2018 | Staff
Vatican City, May 14, 2018 / 01:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Speaking on the eve of a 3-day meeting with Pope Francis about a massive clerical abuse scandal, several Chilean prelates said they are ready...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/13/2018 | Staff
Durban, South Africa, May 13, 2018 / 03:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In the wake of a mosque attack that left one dead and two other critically injured, the Catholic bishops of South Africa have offered...
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Religion News Service | 4/5/2018 | Nicole Winfield
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has summoned Chile’s bishops to Rome for a papal dressing-down because of their role in covering up sexual abuse by priests and their “grave omissions” in caring for...
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www.oann.com | 5/11/2018 | Staff
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis wants Chile’s bishops to owe up to the “devastating wounds” inflicted on the Church’s credibility by a cover-up of clergy sexual abuse, serving notice that his...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/12/2018 | Staff
Vatican City, May 12, 2018 / 05:42 am (CNA/EWTN News).- From May 15-17 Pope Francis will meet with 33 Chilean bishops to share his personal take on the country's massive clerical abuse crisis and...
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The Daily Caller | 5/11/2018 | Staff
Taiwan’s bishops arrived in Rome for their first meeting with Pope Francis and other Vatican officials in a decade amid ongoing Vatican negotiations with China. The delegation of seven bishops came...
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The Aquila Report | 5/11/2018 | StaffThe One Church Plan allows for contextualization of language about human sexuality in support of the mission; and allows for central conferences, especially those in Africa, to retain their...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/10/2018 | Staff
Vatican City, May 10, 2018 / 02:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Chilean Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, archbishop emeritus of Santiago, has said that he will not take part in a meeting between...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/10/2018 | Staff
Vatican City, May 10, 2018 / 10:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The bishops of the Republic of China, also known as Taiwan, arrived in Rome earlier this week ahead of meetings with the pope and other...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/9/2018 | Staff
Vatican City, May 9, 2018 / 02:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican’s long-rumored China deal was discussed by Myanmar’s bishops this week during an ad limina visit with Pope Francis, according to...
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Religion News Service | 5/5/2018 | Mark A. Kellner
(RNS) — A synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America made history Saturday (May 5) by electing the denomination’s first female African-American bishop. One day later, a synod 900 miles away...
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LifeSiteNews | 5/3/2018 | Staff
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has asked the bishops of Germany to come to a “unanimous” decision on whether a Protestant spouse who is married to a Catholic may receive the Holy...
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www.catholicculture.org | 5/4/2018 | Staff
A few weeks ago we were told—by usually reliable sources—that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had rejected the German bishops’ proposal for administering Communion to the non-Catholic...
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Religion News Service | 5/18/2016 | Emily McFarlan Miller
CHICAGO (RNS) — The bishops of the United Methodist Church have endorsed a plan that would allow individual pastors and regional bodies to make their own decisions on whether to perform same-sex...
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WSJ | 5/4/2018 | Francis X. Rocca
ROME—Germany’s Catholic bishops, after decades of being out of favor at the Vatican, have regained influence at the church’s highest levels as they find themselves largely in line with the liberal...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/4/2018 | Staff
Washington D.C., May 4, 2018 / 04:31 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism will have a new chairman, following Bishop George Murry’s resignation from the position...
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Juicy Ecumenism | 5/4/2018 | John Lomperis
After much anticipation, the global of Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church concluding its week-long meeting in Chicago today with a press release summarizing a “motion” it has approved...
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www.churchmilitant.com | 5/3/2018 | Staff
You are not signed in as a Premium user; we rely on Premium users to support our news reporting. Sign in or Sign up today! Texas bishops are actually supporting end-of-life directives that allow...
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CNS News | 5/3/2018 | Staff
In what is a thinly veiled rebuke of Pope Francis' teaching that divorced and remarried couples -- adulterers in Catholic teaching -- may receive Holy Communion, Catholic priests from around the...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/3/2018 | Staff
Vatican City, May 3, 2018 / 01:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After several German bishops appealed to the Vatican over an alleged proposal to allow non-Catholic spouses in mixed faith marriages to receive...
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Catholic News Agency | 5/2/2018 | Staff
Sacramento, Calif., May 2, 2018 / 04:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50 is not car accidents or cancer, but drug overdoses.
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News & Reporting | 5/2/2018 | Staff
For all the progress made toward bringing evangelicals and Catholics together, the notion of a shared Communion table between the two traditions—each with their own theological and ecclesiastical...
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The Daily Caller | 5/1/2018 | Staff
U.S. bishop chairmen and faith leaders called Tuesday for an act that would prevent the government from discriminating against religious child-welfare providers.
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Catholic News Agency | 4/30/2018 | Staff
Munich, Germany, Apr 30, 2018 / 01:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A recent decision by the government of Bavaria to mandate that a cross be displayed in all state buildings has garnered global attention,...
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Catholic News Agency | 3/14/2013 | Staff
Vatican City, Apr 30, 2018 / 07:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican confirmed Monday that a delegation of six German bishops and one priest will meet with Vatican officials, including the head of...
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Religion News Service | 4/30/2018 | Religion News LLC
The African Methodist Episcopal Church celebrates the life, work, and legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. Dr. Cone’s theological purpose and project were to challenge the theological idolatry of white...
China may lift its two-child policy - here's what that could mean Beijing, China, May 23, 2018 / 04:29 pm (CNA).- Amid...
Pope Francis on homosexual seminarians: This bridge is closed! At Vatican Insider I spotted something interesting. Each Spring...
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