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Pro-life Catholic is surprise winner in first round of Chile’s presidential elections

November 22, 2021 Catholic News Agency 3

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Denver Newsroom, Nov 22, 2021 / 01:30 am (CNA).
José Antonio Kast, a Catholic politician who supports socially conservative policies and a free market economy, won a surprise victory on Sunday in the… […]

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Pro-life doctors warn against Chilean bill to permit elective abortion 

October 6, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

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Santiago, Chile, Oct 6, 2021 / 16:19 pm (CNA).
A group of pro-life Chilean doctors on Monday published a video meant to disprove the falsehoods that arise in the discussion of the bill that would decriminaliz… […]

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Chile’s lower house votes to debate bill permitting elective abortions

September 29, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

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Santiago, Chile, Sep 29, 2021 / 16:01 pm (CNA).
Chile’s Chamber of Deputies voted Sept. 28 to begin the debate on a bill that would decriminalize abortion up to 14 weeks of pregnancy. The measure pas… […]

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Chilean legislative committee votes against permitting elective abortions

August 10, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

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Santiago, Chile, Aug 10, 2021 / 14:10 pm (CNA).
A committee of the lower house of Chile’s legislature on Monday narrowly voted not to recommend a bill that would allow elective abor… […]

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Fernando Karadima, former priest whose sex abuse scandal rocked Chile, dead at 90

July 26, 2021 Catholic News Agency 2

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Denver Newsroom, Jul 26, 2021 / 14:45 pm (CNA).
Fernando Karadima, an influential former priest in Chile whose sexual abuse of minors prompted major questions about episcopal cover-ups, has died at the… […]

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Parents urge Chilean president to veto bill that would undermine parental authority

July 1, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

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Santiago, Chile, Jul 1, 2021 / 23:01 pm (CNA).
Pro-family organizations in Chile are urging President Sebastián Piñera to veto completely the recently passed “System of Guarantees of Children’s Rights” bill.“Today the children of Chile a… […]

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Chileans to pray ‘Rosary of Hope’ for drafting of new Constitution  

June 23, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

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Denver Newsroom, Jun 23, 2021 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
Beginning Wednesday, June 23, Catholics in Chile will pray a rosary every week for the Holy Spirit to guide the work of drafting a new constitution for the country.A Rosary for… […]

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New chapel in Chile to follow design of famed architect Antonio Gaudi

March 28, 2021 CNA Daily News 0

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 28, 2021 / 04:54 am (CNA).- Plans by the astonishing architect Antonio Gaudi are the basis for a new chapel in Chile dedicated to Our Lady of the Angels. The project could resume this year, some 95 years after his death.If built, … […]

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Pope Francis misses the mark in focusing on clericalism and synodality

February 3, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 18

Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh has written a piece for Commonweal, on the meeting of the heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences scheduled for February 21-24 to discuss “the protection of minors and vulnerable adults.” Francis is […]

Analysis

Analysis: Justice by papal fiat points to serious lack of trust within the Church

October 15, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 39

The Vatican announced on Saturday that Pope Francis has reduced two Chilean bishops to the lay state. One of the defrocked is an 85-year-old man reported now to be suffering senile dementia, Francisco José Cox […]

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