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Trump’s treatment of the vulnerable shifted the US Catholic bishops’ politics
The only possible savior of this relationship is the Democrats’ ability to push the bishops back into the Republican camp.
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Bishop Varden preaches to Pope, Curia on God’s angels, ‘Bernard the realist’ (CWN)
Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, of Trondheim, Norway, reflected on “God’s angels” and “Bernard the realist”—a reference to St. Bernard of Clairvaux—in his February 26 Lenten retreat conferences to the Pope …
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Archbishop Gallagher urges Russia, Ukraine to respect international humanitarian law (Vatican News)
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, called on belligerents in the Russo-Ukrainian War to respect international humanitarian law. Addressing the Permanent …
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Vatican diplomat calls for respect for rights to life, religious freedom; condemns focus on ‘new rights’ (Holy See Mission)
Addressing the UN Human Rights Council on its twentieth anniversary, a Vatican diplomat said that “the human rights project is currently facing a credibility crisis,” in part because of “the …
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Cardinal Zuppi on Ukraine: Church calls for weapons to fall silent (Vatican News)
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, traveled to Rome to preside at the Community of Sant’Egidio’s prayer vigil for peace in Ukraine. During the …
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‘We were instruments of God for them,’ priest says of ICE detention center service
On Ash Wednesday, three religious crossed into the ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, the first time in months that Catholic leaders had been allowed inside to administer sacraments to …
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Your letters: Charleston, Villanova program and civility
Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to stories about liturgical disputes in the Diocese of Charleston, a new training for bishops at Villanova University and the demise of civility …
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Catholics at US-Mexico border accompany migrants at court hearings in El Paso
Religious men and women in the borderland region accompany migrants on a daily basis in the federal courthouses and in immigration detention centers, seeking to provide solace, comfort and support.
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Oil wells on LA Archdiocese land permanently sealed after years of community pressure
After more than a decade of community activism, a notorious oil drilling facility operating on land leased from the Los Angeles Archdiocese has been shuttered for good.
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Vatican newspaper recalls migrant boat disaster (L’Osservatore Romano (Italian))
The Vatican newspaper devoted the most prominent article in its February 26 edition to the third anniversary of the Calabria migrant boat disaster, in which 94 migrants drowned as they …