WASHINGTON – U.S. Catholics are being encouraged to join a Day of Fasting and Prayer for Peace in Syria, the Middle East and the World Sept. 7 as the United States government considers its role in the ongoing struggle in Syria. Pope Francis called the world’s Catholics to the day of fas...
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Pope Francis has appointed Italian Archbishop Pietro Parolin, 58, as Vatican secretary of state. On Oct. 15 Archbishop Parolin will succeed Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, 78. Archbishop Parolin is pictured in a 2009 photo at the Vatican....
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Iraqis in Baghdad demonstrate Aug. 30 against the possibility of a U.S. military strike against the Syrian government. As speculation mounted about air strikes on Syria, Western church leaders warned military intervention could lead to an escalation of hostilities. ...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Legionary priest who led a major overhaul of the Vatican's telecommunications infrastructure and set up public email addresses for two popes has been named the new secretary-general of the office governing Vatican City. Spanish-born Legionaries of Christ Father Fernando Verg...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Fight off a drug- and alcohol-pushing culture and other hazardous trends sweeping across today's world, Pope Francis told young people. "In life, there will always be people who will make you offers to slow or impede you on your way. Please, go against the current. Be courageo...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- During summer vacation season, when there is no congregation of Vatican workers and no homily, Pope Francis continues to celebrate daily Mass in his residence and, since mid-July, has been using hosts made by women incarcerated in an Argentine prison. The hosts were delivered...
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Deacon Deacon Leonard Richardson reflects during his homily as he conducts a Communion service at Rainbow Beach in Chicago Aug. 24. Black Catholic deacons of Chicago hosted six sunrise services to pray for nonviolence in the 2013-2014 school year. At the end of the service at Rainbow Beach, Deacon...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Making realities of the dreams that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of in his 1963 address at the March on Washington will mean Catholics must stop being complacent about militarism, racism and poverty, summed up Sister Patricia Chappell, executive director of Pax Christi...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry were consulting with other world leaders about how to respond to Syria's apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians. On Aug. 26, Kerry called the Aug. 21 attack an inexcusable and undeniable "indiscriminate slaughter of...
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Betty Stallworth is pictured with grandchildren Emory and Robert Verstraete before a recent Mass at St. Augustine Church in Washington. Stallworth joined other parishioners from the church for the March on Washington in 1963. They started at the church, celebrated Mass and headed down to the Lincol...
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