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US Catholic bishops approve outreach to Native Americans and acknowledge boarding school ‘traumas’
6 months, 4 weeks ago

US Catholic bishops approve outreach to Native Americans and acknowledge boarding school ‘traumas’

Associated Press  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — U.S. bishops on Friday approved new guidelines for ministering to Indigenous Catholics, a long in-the-works effort to reinvigorate the ministry and assure those communities that they don’t need to feel torn between their Native identity and their Catholic one. “The Church recognizes that it has played a part in traumas experienced by Native children,” according to the …

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Good Friday 2024: History, Quotes, and Can Catholics Eat Meat on Good Friday?
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Good Friday 2024: History, Quotes, and Can Catholics Eat Meat on Good Friday?

News 18  

Good Friday is a day when Christians all around the world commemorate the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Good Friday is termed “good” because of its religious significance to Christians, who believe that Jesus’ death on the cross was the final sacrifice for humanity’s sins. Good Friday 2024: History Good Friday dates back to when Jesus was arrested by royal soldiers …

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Pope opens Vatican meeting amid tensions with conservatives
1 year, 3 months ago

Pope opens Vatican meeting amid tensions with conservatives

Al Jazeera  

Pope Francis opens a global gathering of bishops and lay people to discuss the future of the Catholic Church including hot-button issues previously considered taboo. Pope Francis has opened an important meeting on the future of the Catholic Church, with progressives hoping it will lead to more women in leadership roles and conservatives warning that church doctrine on everything from …

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Women’s voices and votes loom large as pope is set to open a Vatican meeting on church’s future
1 year, 3 months ago

Women’s voices and votes loom large as pope is set to open a Vatican meeting on church’s future

Associated Press  

VATICAN CITY — A few years ago, Pope Francis told the head of the main Vatican-backed Catholic women’s organization to be “brave” in pushing for change for women in the Catholic Church. “And for women, this is an extraordinary step forward.” Women have long complained they are treated as second-class citizens in the church, barred from the priesthood and highest …

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Bolivian Catholics unfazed by sex scandals as they gear up for massive festival
1 year, 7 months ago

Bolivian Catholics unfazed by sex scandals as they gear up for massive festival

The Independent  

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Opinion: Who will Catholics follow? Pope Francis or the right-wing U.S. bishops?
1 year, 7 months ago

Opinion: Who will Catholics follow? Pope Francis or the right-wing U.S. bishops?

LA Times  

Pope Francis welcomed President Biden to the Vatican for talks in October 2021, as U.S. Catholic bishops debated denying the president communion in American churches. The religious right has long been identified with white evangelical Christians, but the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, some 250 men, mostly white and past middle age, ranks among the nation’s most formidable reactionary forces. …

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Hate crimes against Catholics witness ‘largest spike’ in Canada, reveals Christian think tank
1 year, 9 months ago

Hate crimes against Catholics witness ‘largest spike’ in Canada, reveals Christian think tank

Firstpost  

The report, titled Toward a Hopeful Future: Facing Down Religious Hate, shows that hate crime against Catholic Christians jumped from 43 to 155 cases within a year between 2020 and 2021 Ottawa: A report by a Canadian non-partisan Christian think tank called Cardus found that 2021 witnessed the “largest spike” in hate crimes motivated by religion, most of which occurred …

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Q&A: Pope, Chinese leader Xi to cross paths in Kazakhstan
2 years, 3 months ago

Q&A: Pope, Chinese leader Xi to cross paths in Kazakhstan

Associated Press  

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first trip overseas since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic will overlap with a visit by Pope Francis to Kazakhstan, although the Vatican says there are no plans for them to meet. China does not have diplomatic relations with Vatican, ever since the ruling Communist Party required Roman Catholics in China to …

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For Ukrainian Orthodox in US, war news casts pall on Easter
2 years, 8 months ago

For Ukrainian Orthodox in US, war news casts pall on Easter

Associated Press  

The rituals leading up to Easter are the same. “We are going through the motions of Easter right now because it’s what we have to hang on to.” Orysia Germak, a member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Volodymyr in New York City, said news from the war summons bad memories: She was born in a camp for displaced …

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EXPLAINER: How is Russia-Ukraine war linked to religion?
2 years, 10 months ago

EXPLAINER: How is Russia-Ukraine war linked to religion?

Associated Press  

Ukraine’s tangled political history with Russia has its counterpart in the religious landscape, with Ukraine’s majority Orthodox Christian population divided between an independent-minded group based in Kyiv and another loyal to its patriarch in Moscow. Even though Russian President Vladimir Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine in part as a defense of the Moscow-oriented Orthodox church, leaders of both Ukrainian …

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How is Russia-Ukraine war linked to religion? | Explained
2 years, 10 months ago

How is Russia-Ukraine war linked to religion? | Explained

India TV News  

Ukraine’s tangled political history with Russia has its counterpart in the religious landscape, with Ukraine’s majority Orthodox Christian population divided between an independent-minded group based in Kyiv and another loyal to its patriarch in Moscow. Even though Russian President Vladimir Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine in part as a defense of the Moscow-oriented Orthodox church, leaders of both Ukrainian …

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Rejection Or Welcome: Trans Catholics Encounter Both
2 years, 10 months ago

Rejection Or Welcome: Trans Catholics Encounter Both

Huff Post  

For transgender Catholics across the United States, retaining their faith can entail complex calculations. “You can’t respect people and deny their existence at the same time.” The latest policy targeting trans Catholics was issued by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in January. Objecting to trans-supportive “gender theory,” the policy stipulates that “all interactions and policies, parishes, organizations, and institutions are to …

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Rejection or welcome: Transgender Catholics encounter both
2 years, 10 months ago

Rejection or welcome: Transgender Catholics encounter both

Associated Press  

For transgender Catholics across the United States, retaining their faith can entail complex calculations. “You can’t respect people and deny their existence at the same time.” The latest policy targeting trans Catholics was issued by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in January. Objecting to trans-supportive “gender theory,” the policy stipulates that “all interactions and policies, parishes, organizations, and institutions are to …

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Catholic bishops seek answers in rising vandalism incidents
3 years, 2 months ago

Catholic bishops seek answers in rising vandalism incidents

The Independent  

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Beyond All Frenzy, the Pope-Modi Meeting Does Little for BJP and Vatican
3 years, 2 months ago

Beyond All Frenzy, the Pope-Modi Meeting Does Little for BJP and Vatican

The Quint  

The two Cardinals in Kerala are jubilant, the remainder of the Catholics underwhelmed, the denominational and independent churches phlegmatic, a section of the Muslims apprehensive, and civil society a little annoyed. The hug that Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi gave Pope Francis in the Vatican this October while inviting the Roman pontiff for a long delayed visit to India has …

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Germany goes against Vatican to bless gay unions
3 years, 8 months ago

Germany goes against Vatican to bless gay unions

Live Mint  

About 100 Catholic progressive churches across Germany are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings at services, this week. The blessings at open worship services are the latest pushback from German Catholics against a document released in March by the Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the …

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Coronavirus concerns see Catholic Church recommend changes to holy communion and holy water practices
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus concerns see Catholic Church recommend changes to holy communion and holy water practices

ABC  

Catholics taking part in church services across Australia this weekend could see their traditions of worship changed due to coronavirus. Key points: Catholic Bishops have instructed parishes to stop distributing holy communion from the chalice and remove holy water from stoups Other precautions include not shaking hands as a sign of peace but to smile, wave, nod or bow, and …

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How Political Campaigns Are Using 'Geofencing' Technology To Target Catholics At Mass
4 years, 11 months ago

How Political Campaigns Are Using 'Geofencing' Technology To Target Catholics At Mass

NPR  

How Political Campaigns Are Using 'Geofencing' Technology To Target Catholics At Mass NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Heidi Schlumpf of the National Catholic Reporter about how one political group is using "geofencing" of cellphone data to target Catholic voters at Sunday Mass. For All Tech Considered, I spoke with Heidi Schlumpf of the National Catholic Reporter about what's going on. …

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Pope canonizes John Henry Newman, 19th-century theologian
5 years, 2 months ago

Pope canonizes John Henry Newman, 19th-century theologian

Associated Press  

VATICAN CITY — With Prince Charles looking on, Pope Francis on Sunday canonized Cardinal John Henry Newman, praising the 19th-century Anglican convert who became an influential, unifying figure in both the Anglican and Catholic churches. Francis quoted from one of Newman’s most famous hymns, “Lead, Kindly Lights,” as he presided over Mass on Sunday before an estimated 50,000 people in …

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Sri Lanka Catholics celebrate Mass via TV amid new warnings
5 years, 8 months ago

Sri Lanka Catholics celebrate Mass via TV amid new warnings

The Hindu  

Sri Lankan Catholics celebrated Sunday Mass in their homes for a second week as churches remain closed after reports of possible fresh attacks by Islamic extremists. A letter from Pope Francis addressed to him was read out at the end of the service in which the pontiff said he prayed that “hearts hardened by hatred may yield to His will …

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