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Synod organizer Cardinal Hollerich: Catholic Church in Africa ‘not afraid to speak’

August 20, 2024 Catholic News Agency 6

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, relator general of Synod on Synodality, speaks to the media on June 20, 2023, at the temporary headquarters of the Holy See Press Office in Vatican City. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug… […]

News Briefs

Dutch bishop: Fiducia Supplicans too much ‘in tune with zeitgeist’

June 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 18

Bishop Rob Mutsaerts, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands. / Credit: Danny Gerrits/wikiportret.nl via Wikimedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

CNA Newsroom, Jun 7, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA).
A Dutch bishop has described the Vati… […]

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Kentucky parish offers scheduled appointments for same-sex blessings

June 6, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

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CNA Staff, Jun 6, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
A parish in the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, is openly promoting blessings for same-sex couples despite a Vatican directive that suggests such blessings should be “spontaneous… […]

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Cardinal Fernández meets with Coptic Church leader over same-sex blessing rift

May 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria. / Credit: Vatican Media; ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 23, 2024 / 18:01 pm… […]

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Chicago priest apologizes for same-sex blessing, saying it violated Church norms

May 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 6

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CNA Staff, May 14, 2024 / 07:48 am (CNA).
A priest in Chicago has apologized for the controversial way in which he blessed a same-sex couple in April, calling it a “very poor decision” that … […]

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Chicago priest blesses same-sex ‘spouses,’ says Fiducia Supplicans allows it

May 3, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

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CNA Staff, May 3, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
A priest in Chicago last month blessed a same-sex couple, saying that the Vatican’s recent document Fiducia Supplicans authorized such blessings. Father Joseph Willi… […]

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Redeemed from sexual libertinism, prostitution, and occult, Fran Orvich tells his story

April 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Orvich said he wanted to share his experience with same sex attraction “so that the Lord might touch hearts and that people repent and try returning to a chaste life." / Credit: Fran Orvich

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 23, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
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The Dispatch

African cardinal: Fiducia Supplicans seen as ‘cultural colonization, Western imperialism’

March 20, 2024 Catholic News Agency 24

A screenshot of Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo during the March 17 interview with KTO. / Credit: KTO

ACI Africa, Mar 20, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration by the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) permitting t… […]

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Head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church talks war, the pope, and same-sex blessings 

March 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 11

Sviatoslav Shevchuk is major archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News Nightly

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 16, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).
In an exclusive interview with EWTN New… […]

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Friendship in Christ: A conversation about chastity and same-sex attraction

March 13, 2024 Rob Marco 17

I met Paul Darrow in July 2018 at a Courage conference, having been invited by a friend to attend. As a married man and father, it was a little peculiar why I was there, since […]

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