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Month: October 2024

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The Enneagram: A tool for wisdom or a spiritual trap?

October 31, 2024 Tim Vail 36

During Halloween and All Saint’s Day, there’s a renewed awareness of the occult in our cultural landscape. This is a time of year when mystical symbols, esoteric beliefs, and New Age practices often emerge in […]

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New Boston archbishop challenges flock to develop ‘deeply personal’ relationship with God

October 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

New Boston Archbishop Richard Henning and outgoing archbishop Cardinal Cardinal Seán O’Malley during a packed two-hour-plus installation Mass at Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Oct. 31, 2024. / Credit: Andrzej Skonieczny

Boston, Mass., … […]

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Kentucky attorney general backs Catholic church in lawsuit against shrine construction

October 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Our Lady of Lourdes grotto, Lourdes, France. / Credit: Elise Harris/CNA

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 31, 2024 / 17:45 pm (CNA).
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman threw his support behind a Park Hills Catholic church that is … […]

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‘Buffer zone’ law banning anti-abortion protests goes into effect in England and Wales

October 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

“This isn’t 1984, but 2023 —I should never have been arrested or investigated simply for the thoughts I held in my own mind,” Vaughan-Spruce, who was arrested for praying outside of an abortion clinic, said. / Credit: ADF UK

Washington, D.C. Ne… […]

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Diocese bans ‘All Are Welcome,’ other hymns from Catholic Masses

October 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 9

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CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2024 / 15:40 pm (CNA).
The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal inaccuracies in… […]

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Pope Francis to parents of aborted children: Evil does not have the last word

October 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis with members of “Project Hope,” a program of accompaniment for the spiritual and emotional healing of women and men who suffer the consequences of having chosen abortion, on Oct. 30, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Oct … […]

The Dispatch

Using a mascot misses and obscures the point of the Jubilee Year

October 31, 2024 Matthew Balan 25

A social-media firestorm erupted on October 28 after Archbishop Rino Fisichella unveiled the official mascot—Luce—for the 2025 Jubilee. The female character, which bears the Italian form of the name “Lucy” (or “Lucia”), is depicted in […]

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Vatican inquiry into canonization of Father Arrupe, mentor to Pope Francis, begins next month

October 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis prays near the tomb of Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, superior general of the Society of Jesus between 1965 and 1981, during a Mass at the Jesuit Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, known as the “Gesu” in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2022… […]

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Vatican message for India’s ‘festival of lights’ emphasizes need for fostering harmony

October 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Lights for the celebration of the Hindu festival Diwali. / Credit: Abhinaba Basu via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Bangalore, India, Oct 31, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
The Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue issued a message at the celebration of … […]

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Pope Francis: Secular world needs teachers with ‘a big heart’ and high ideals

October 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis meets with participants of Italy’s Educational Commitment Movement of Catholic Action (MIEAC) national congress on Oct. 31, 2024, at a private audience held in the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Oct 31, 2024 / 10:55… […]

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