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Nigerian sisters providing for homeless, abandoned children during lockdown

May 6, 2020 Patrick Egwu 3

Sisters of the Daughters of Divine Love congregation in Nigeria are providing relief packages and other supplies to street children across the country who have been left homeless and abandoned  as a result of the […]

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Continuing the tradition of the Desert Fathers and Mothers—in the Arctic

May 3, 2020 Alberto Carosa 3

The roots of Christian monasticism sprang up from the arid and unforgiving terrain of the desert—the ancient Desert Fathers (along with Desert Mothers) were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who lived mainly in the […]

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Walk for Life West Coast 2020 to be held Saturday, January 25th, in San Francisco

January 23, 2020 Jim Graves 2

The 16th annual Walk for Life West Coast will be held this Saturday, January 25, in downtown San Francisco.  The event coincides with the 47th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s January 22, 1973 Roe […]

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In Europe’s least Catholic nation, the Church grows amid financial hardship

January 18, 2020 R. Cavanaugh 33

With little more than 15,000 registered Catholics in an overall population of 5.5 million, Finland has the lowest Catholic percentage of any European nation. However, recent years have seen the Catholic population rise by 3-4 […]

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Catholicism in the Land of the Rising Sun (and declining population)

November 14, 2019 R. Cavanaugh 22

When Pope Francis visits Japan this November 23-26, he will be received by a highly resilient Catholic community – one that endured centuries of violent persecution under anti-Christian leadership and, more recently, an atomic bomb […]

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How Catholic is Poland’s “Law and Justice” Party?

October 21, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 7

On Sunday, October 13th, the Law and Justice party won 43.59 percent of the vote in Poland’s parliamentary elections, giving it a majority of 235 seats in the Sejm, the lower chamber of Poland’s Parliament. […]

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Synod’s second week opens with continued focus on married priests, ecology, inculturation

October 14, 2019 Mary Jo Anderson 10

October 14, Rome—The second week of the Pan-Amazonian Synod opened with continued stress on now familiar themes: ordination of married men (viri probati, men of proven virtue), defense of the regional ecology, and inculturation of […]

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Three Wisconsin lawmakers take aim at the confessional

August 7, 2019 Joseph M. Hanneman 29

MADISON, Wis. — Catholic priests would be required to report suspected child abuse or the sexual abuse of a minor based on information heard during the Sacrament of Penance under legislation proposed August 7th by […]

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An unusual, complicated European nation seeks to rediscover its Christian culture

May 30, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 11

The speakers of a Romance language surrounded by a sea of Slavs and Hungarians, and inhabiting a former Roman province once home to Ovid, the Romanians have always been an unusual European nation. With regards […]

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A story of restoration: An Anglican community finds home in the Catholic Church

May 18, 2019 Joanna Bogle 17

When Father Christopher Pearson and some of his flock at St. Agnes Church in Kennington, South London, made the decision to come into full communion with the Catholic Church, they had to leave quite a […]

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