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Sept. 24 beatification of Archbishop Sheen to be ‘a moment of immense grace’
Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be beatified on Sept. 24 in St. Louis, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced March 25.
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Cancer nurse turned archbishop celebrates election as first woman to lead Church of England
Although Sarah Mullally, 63, formally became the archbishop of Canterbury in January, Wednesday’s event marks the beginning of her public ministry as both the head of the Church of England …
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Pope Leo XIV taps an Australian church lawyer as Vatican’s chief legal expert
Bishop Anthony Randazzo, bishop of Broken Bay, was named prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts.
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As border dynamics change, priest keeps ministering to migrants and deportees
Over the past five years at the U.S.-Mexico border, Jesuit Fr. Brian Strassburger has gone from ministering to throngs of asylum-seekers in overcrowded shelters to celebrating Mass with detained and deported migrants.
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Belgian radio station apologizes after smashing statues of Jesus, Blessed Mother
Belgian radio hosts have apologized after airing a video feature in which they were seen smashing statues of both Jesus and the Virgin Mary. At the Radiodays Europe conference in …
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Belgian radio station apologizes after smashing statues of Jesus, Blessed Mother
The video featuring the destruction of sacred images was “intended as a humorous piece,” the station said. Brussels, Belgium. | Credit: Sean Pavone/Shutterstock Belgian radio hosts have apologized after airing …
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Vatican calls for ethical framework on use of animal organs in humans
The Vatican has called for a global ethical framework governing the use of animal organs in human transplants, warning that rapid advances in the field demand coordinated international oversight. The …
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Vatican calls for ethical framework on use of animal organs in humans
The Pontifical Academy for Life said the growing field of xenotransplantation requires international standards and ethical oversight. A pig leans on a pigsty fence on a farm. | Credit: BushAlex/Shutterstock …
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Data: Younger Catholics increasingly Hispanic; over half of Gen-Z adults stay Catholic
Those and other insights on the nation’s adult Catholics were shared by researcher Mark Gray in a March 23 analysis posted to Nineteen Sixty-four, the blog of the Center for …
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Why the Annunciation stands at the center of the drama of salvation
Detail from “Annunciation” (1425-28) by Fra Angelico [WikiArt.org] On this solemnity, which celebrates the high-water mark in the history of salvation, permit me to explore with you three Latin expressions. 1. …