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Pope provides for expansion of Vatican Archive and Library (CWN)
Pope Leo XIV issued a chirograph, “Il notevole incremento,” that provides for the expansion of the Vatican Apostolic Archive and the Vatican Apostolic Library.
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USCCB publishes map of home-mission dioceses (USCCB)
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops yesterday published a map of the dioceses and eparchies funded by the Catholic Home Missions Appeal. The appeal, begun in 1998, is funded …
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Editorial: The church still waits to hear a full confession from the hierarchy
Bankruptcy is not enough to “move beyond” the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis. The clerical/hierarchical culture has yet to square up with the reality of bishops’ betrayal of the community …
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Restricting the chalice is not tradition — it’s a troubling innovation
As a few U.S. dioceses restrict access to the precious blood, they are promoting a “newer vision of Catholicism in which restriction of the fuller sign of the Eucharist has …
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Amid tensions, Canadian bishop reminds Catholics of US, Canada: ‘We are neighbors’
As relations between Canada and the U.S. fray due to the U.S. trade war, Bishop Pierre Goudreault, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, says he hopes the two …
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The Leo Chronicles: ‘Play ball!’
The Leo Chronicles: A White Sox pope hat for every U.S. seminarian? Leo suggests sending them something else.
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Pope visits Vatican Library, says reading books can feed the desire for God (CWN)
Pope Leo XIV visited the Vatican Apostolic Library on September 14, his 71st birthday, and said that “if on the one hand a book brings calm, on the other it …
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BEATIFICATION OF FULTON SHEEN/III – An American at the Second Vatican Council: Archbishop Sheen’s contribution to the Decree “Ad gentes” on the Church’s missionary activity
by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Vatican City – It is a little-known episode of the Second Vatican Council, but its decree on the missions owes much to a single American bishop: Fulton …
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St. Basil the Great—Teaching a Christian how he ought to live …
Teaching a Christian how he ought to live does not call so much for words as for daily example. — St. Basil the Great
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Sep. 15 Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, Memorial
Today is the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. Devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady has its roots in Sacred Scripture and in Christian piety, which always associates …