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  • [ July 4, 2025 ] Pope appoints Pizzaballa and Mathieu to Vatican’s interreligious dialogue office News Briefs
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Hundreds brave extreme heat to accompany the Eucharistic Lord in south Texas

May 24, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Hundreds of Catholics join the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas on May 22, 2024. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNA

San Juan, Texas, May 24, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
There’s hot and then there’s south Texas hot.&nbs… […]

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The Ghost of Synods Past: The Synod of 1967

May 23, 2024 J. J. Ziegler 14

On September 14, 1965, Pope St. Paul VI announced the establishment of the Synod of Bishops. In doing so, he accepted a proposal advanced by Archbishop Silvio Oddi in 1959 that had gained much support in the intervening years. […]

The Dispatch

Following the land’s liturgy

May 23, 2024 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 11

We shook on it. After too many moves, my wife and I committed to move once more into a small cabin on the land. After years of false starts, it finally happened, as I wrote back […]

The Dispatch

Florida priest charged for biting arm of woman he says was desecrating Eucharist

May 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 45

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CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 18:21 pm (CNA).
A priest in Florida bit the forearm of a woman he says was desecrating the Eucharist in a Communion line at church this past Sunday and has now been charged with one count of batt… […]

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Cardinal Fernández meets with Coptic Church leader over same-sex blessing rift

May 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria. / Credit: Vatican Media; ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 23, 2024 / 18:01 pm… […]

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Pope Francis lambasts the scourge of human trafficking 

May 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis speaks from the window of the Apostolic Palace on a rainy Sunday in Rome on Feb. 11, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, May 23, 2024 / 17:41 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis today urged the abolition of human trafficking, “one o… […]

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Joy in Syria: Pope Francis gives ‘green light’ for canonization of ‘Martyrs of Damascus’ 

May 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

A moment of prayer during the procession through the narrow streets of the Christian quarter of Bab-Touma (St. Paul) in the Old City of Damascus on July 9, 2023, in celebration of the liturgical feast of the Martyrs of Damascus. / Credit: Courte… […]

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Federal government backs down, allows Virginia Knights to hold annual Memorial Day Mass 

May 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

A Virginia council of the Knights of Columbus will be permitted to hold its annual Memorial Day Mass on Monday, May 27, 2024, in a federal cemetery after the National Park Service (NPS) backed down and allowed the group to hold the observance. /… […]

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Number of Catholic parishes in Baltimore’s core will be halved, archdiocese says 

May 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

St. Vincent de Paul Church, the oldest Catholic parish church in continuous use in Baltimore, which was dedicated in 1841, is among the churches slated for closure. / Credit: Smash the Iron Cage|Wikimedia|CC BY-SA 4.0

CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / … […]

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Michigan attorney general releases third report on alleged diocesan abuse

May 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The Cathedral of St. Augustine in Kalamazoo, Michigan. / Credit: rossograph via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 13:38 pm (CNA).
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has released the third of seven reports on alleged sexual a… […]

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