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Priest who offered Mass on inflatable lounge chair in sea: ‘I was perhaps imprudent’

July 27, 2022 Catholic News Agency 5

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Rome Newsroom, Jul 27, 2022 / 06:33 am (CNA).
After photos of a shirtless Italian priest celebrating Mass in the sea using an inflatable lounge chair went viral this week, the local Catholic archdiocese has called for liturgical dec… […]

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What is the end goal of Pope Francis’s governance?

July 12, 2022 Christopher R. Altieri 45

There’s a scene in Brian De Palma’s 1987 classic, The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner as Elliot Ness, with Sean Connery as Chicago police Sgt. James Malone, which has been on my mind of late. Malone […]

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A personal way to govern: Why Pope Francis uses Apostolic Letters the way he does

July 4, 2022 Catholic News Agency 4

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Vatican City, Jul 4, 2022 / 09:06 am (CNA).
It is no coincidence that Pope Francis chose the form of an apostolic letter to write about liturgy. Nor that he chose to write it one year after the publication of t… […]

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Pelosi’s reception of Holy Communion upstages the Holy Father’s liturgical reflections

June 29, 2022 Christopher R. Altieri 147

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sure knows how to get herself in the papers, but she may have stepped in it this time. She showed up for Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on […]

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