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North American College to cancel teaching and celebrating Masses in the Extraordinary Form

August 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 5

The Pontifical North American College is a major seminary in Rome that educates seminarians from U.S. diocese and elsewhere. / Bohumil Petrik/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Aug 31, 2021 / 21:51 pm (CNA).
In a memo sent to “the Community ” at the North Amer… […]

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Federal judge: University cannot remove Christian athletes for refusing COVID shot

August 31, 2021 Joseph M. Hanneman 10

Western Michigan University is barred from kicking four Christian athletes off the women’s soccer team for refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine, under a temporary restraining order issued Tuesday by a U.S. District judge in […]

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Venezuelan bishops criticize National Guard for obstructing aid to victims of rains, landslides

August 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Caritas Merida assists in solidarity work after heavy rains in the Venezuelan state. Credit: Caritas Merida. / null

Merida, Venezuela, Aug 31, 2021 / 17:29 pm (CNA).
The Venezuelan bishops’ conference criticized on Monday the Venezuelan National… […]

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Bolivia’s bishops lament ‘deplorable’ human rights situation

August 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

The inauguration of Luis Arce as president of Bolivia in La Paz, Nov. 8, 2020. Credit: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile via Wikimedia (CC BY 3.0 CL). / null

La Paz, Bolivia, Aug 31, 2021 / 16:10 pm (CNA).
The bishops of Bolivia expre… […]

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The Motto of St. Pius X and the Restoration of the Church

August 31, 2021 Matthew Tsakanikas, STD, Kevin Tracy, PhD 7

The Church Burns would be an English translation for the title of Andrea Riccardi’s recent book, La Chiesa Brucia. He began writing it after Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was severely damaged by fire. The […]

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Aid group ‘devastated’ as dozens of ‘endangered’ employees stuck in Afghanistan

August 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan / Trent Inness/Shutterstock

Washington D.C., Aug 31, 2021 / 15:30 pm (CNA).
As U.S. forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on Monday, the head of a global charity w… […]

The Dispatch

Portland archdiocese asks its schools to follow COVID vaccine mandate, but will consider conscience exemptions

August 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 8

Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland in Oregon. / Addie Mena/CNA.

Portland, Ore., Aug 31, 2021 / 14:33 pm (CNA).
The Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon responded Monday to a new state COVID-19 vaccine mandate, noting that Catholic schools in t… […]

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Virginia Supreme Court reinstates teacher who objected to transgender pronoun mandate

August 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Byron "Tanner" Cross, teacher with the Loudoun County School District / Alliance Defending Freedom

Denver Newsroom, Aug 31, 2021 / 13:35 pm (CNA).
Virginia’s Supreme Court has sided with a teacher after he challenged a school district … […]

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Harvard Catholic Center responds to ‘spin’ on atheist chaplain

August 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 3

Greg Epstein, humanist chaplain at Harvard University and new chaplain facilitator / Harvard University/YouTube

Washington D.C., Aug 31, 2021 / 11:04 am (CNA).
The Harvard Catholic Center on Monday clarified reports of the university’s new athei… […]

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After surgery, Pope Francis says a nurse ‘saved my life’

August 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Francis attends a general audience at the Vatican. / Daniel Ibáñez/​CNA.

Vatican City, Aug 31, 2021 / 07:32 am (CNA).
In a new interview, Pope Francis said that a nurse saved his life, in reference to a medical issue he had earlier this sum… […]

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