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Pope Francis: ‘I like to think of hell as empty’

January 15, 2024 Catholic News Agency 60

Pope Francis appearing on Che Tempo Che Fa on Jan. 14/ / NOVE

Rome Newsroom, Jan 15, 2024 / 13:05 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis appeared on Italy’s most popular prime-time talk show on Sunday night where the pontiff shared how he hopes that hell is “e… […]

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Exorcist warns the cult of ‘St. Death’ worships Satan ‘implicitly or explicitly’

January 2, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Image of “Santa Muerte,” or “St. Death.” / Credit: David Ramos/ACI Prensa

ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 12:10 pm (CNA).
Father Andrés Esteban López Ruiz, a member of the College of Exorcists of the Primatial Archdiocese of Mexico, recently wa… […]

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Opus Dei priest dies from heart attack while preaching at retreat

November 30, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Father Fadi Sarraf, 51, was a recently ordained Opus Dei priest. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Opus Dei

CNA Staff, Nov 30, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA).
Father Fadi Sarraf, a recently ordained priest of Opus Dei, reportedly died of a heart attack while … […]

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Pennsylvania religious sister dies in car accident

November 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Sister Augustine Marie Molnar, a member of the Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, died tragically in a car accident on Nov. 18, 2023, while traveling to an event to promote vocations. / Credit: Sister Servants of the Most Sacred … […]

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The increasingly permissive and unethical standard for organ harvesting

March 14, 2023 Joseph M. Eble, MD 6

There is tremendous societal pressure to obtain organs for transplantation. Approximately 43,000 organ transplants were performed in 2022, but as of February 27, 2023, approximately 104,000 patients remained on the organ transplant waiting list. Organ […]

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A Cross-less Christianity is a lie of the devil

February 25, 2023 Carl E. Olson 16

Readings: • Gen 2:7-9; 3:1-7 • Psa 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17 • Rom 5:12-19 • Matt 4:1-11 “He that seeks not the cross of Christ,” wrote St. John of the Cross, “seeks not the glory […]

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Dying and rising In union with Christ: On All Souls Day

November 1, 2022 Fr. Charles Fox 4

If you aren’t nerdy enough to read The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and also the appendices to the books, then you aren’t nerdy enough. I’m kidding, of course, but it is true […]

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What will be your last words?

August 10, 2022 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 7

Editor’s note: This homily was preached on the feast of St. Lawrence, August 10, 2022, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. On December 27, 1912, my father was born in Lawrence, […]

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English courts to reconsider life support for Archie Battersbee, severely brain-injured boy

June 29, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

The Court of Appeal is based at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. / Anthony M. from Rome, Italy – Flickr via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0).

Denver Newsroom, Jun 29, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
England’s High Court must hold another hearing to determine… […]

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Spanish Cardinal Carlos Amigo dies at age 87 after lung surgery

April 27, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo (1934-2022). / Miguel Ángel fotógrafo via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Rome Newsroom, Apr 27, 2022 / 09:20 am (CNA).
Spanish Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, an advocate for dialogue between Christians, Muslims, and Jew… […]

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Abp. Augustine Di Noia appointed vice president of “Ecclesia Dei”

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The Vatican Information Service reports: Vatican City, 26 June 2012 (VIS) – Given below is the text of an English-language note issued today by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Fatih concerning the appointment […]

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