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Month: September 2023

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Celibacy is not a direct cause of sexual abuse, Jesuit expert says

September 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Father Hans Zollner. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez / ACI Prensa

ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 29, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).
Father Hans Zollner, a German priest and an expert in the fight against sexual abuse in the Church, said in a Sept. 26 interview with Inf… […]

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Celebrations planned for 30th anniversary of Vatican Observatory’s Arizona telescope

September 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) on Mount Graham in southern Arizona. / Credit: Vatican Observatory

CNA Staff, Sep 29, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA).
The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) on Mount Graham in southern Arizona c… […]

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Catholic gym trains members to become ‘warriors against the evil one’

September 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Coach Joe Enabnit (far left) with members from the St. Michael Barbell Club in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. / Credit: Joe Enabnit

CNA Staff, Sep 29, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
In 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic and a storm wreaked damage on his town of Ce… […]

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The three great archangels of the Bible: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael

September 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 29, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Many Catholics can, at the drop of a hat, recite the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel — the famous petition to that venerable saint to “defend us in battle” and “cast i… […]

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From parish to monastery: The life and writing of Blessed Columba Marmion

September 28, 2023 Julian Kwasniewski 5

“Tell them that the new Parish Priest with his velvet waist-coat and gold chain, has got inside the poor Benedictine who wears no waist-coat & sports a boot lace for a chain,” Blessed Columba Marmion […]

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Hong Kong bishop: Evangelization in China shouldn’t have ‘agenda of turning them into Catholics’

September 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 21

Cardinal-elect Stephen Chow said Sept. 28, 2023, that evangelization in China today should focus on communicating the love of God “without the agenda of turning them into Catholics.” / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA

Vatican City, Sep 28, 2023 / 12:… […]

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Alleged Rupnik victim: Many of the abused women have never received help

September 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Father Marko Rupnik / Credit: Centroaletti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 28, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
Italian professor Fabrizia Raguso, one of the original members of the Loyola Community and an alleged victim of Fat… […]

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Oklahoma archbishop decries execution of Anthony Sanchez as ‘archaic’

September 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

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St. Louis, Mo., Sep 28, 2023 / 17:22 pm (CNA).
Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City on Thursday called the execution of convicted murderer Anthony Sanchez, which took place a week ago, “fundamentally at od… […]

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One-third of St. Louis Catholic schools face possible closure 

September 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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St. Louis, Mo., Sep 28, 2023 / 16:45 pm (CNA).
The Archdiocese of St. Louis may close more than 25 Catholic elementary schools amid a major restructuring plan that has already closed and merged … […]

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Meet the Vatican scientist helping NASA on a historic space mission

September 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Brother Robert Macke, a Jesuit and astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, works in his office at the Vatican Observatory. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Brother Robert Macke

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 28, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).
Brother Robert … […]

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