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El Paso bishop shares migrants’ letters with Pontiff (CNS)
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso said that Pope Leo XIV had tears in his eyes as he read migrants’ letters during an October 8 audience. Bishop Seitz, who chairs …
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Pope encourages US Hispanic ministry leaders to accompany the poor and the stranger (Vatican News)
Addressing over 100 Hispanic ministry leaders from the US, Pope Leo XIV said that “you have a very great task in your hands—to accompany people who truly, deeply need a …
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When Will Catholic Pastors Take Security Seriously?
When the news came out about the deadly shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis, I felt more than just sadness and anger. I had a grim sense of inevitability. …
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Guns, Government, and the Right to Life
When speaking about freedom or liberty as Catholics, we must always keep in mind that we have a different understanding than the liberal version, which undergirds post-Christendom nation-states such as …
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God is ‘the fullness and meaning of our lives,’ Pope preaches at Jubilee of Consecrated Life (Dicastery for Communication)
Pope Leo XIV celebrated a rare Thursday Mass in St. Peter’s Square yesterday for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life (video). “You have come to entrust your lives to the same …
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The Church ‘denounces the false impartiality of the market,’ Cardinal Czerny says at press conference (CWN)
At yesterday’s Vatican press conference for the publication of Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te (video), Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, emphasized that “recent Church teaching understands that poverty results …
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Cardinal Koch takes stock of Anglican-Catholic relations (Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity)
Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, took stock of Anglican-Catholic relations in a recent address in Belgium, at the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of …
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It’s Latino Heritage Month. Where are the disappeared?
“Collective Heritage: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future” is the theme for this year’s Latino Heritage Month. While our communities continue to be surveilled, detained and disappeared, we remember.
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Your letters: Movie nuns, Pope Leo’s Durbin comments and Hamas
Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to articles about cinematic portrayals of women religious, Pope Leo’s commentary on the Sen. Durbin controversy and Hamas’ role in peace negotiations.
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Q&A with ‘Red Scare’ author Clay Risen on McCarthyism and modern America
In Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, author Clay Risen explores Congress’s investigation of Communism in the 1950s. Risen spoke with NCR about parallels between that era …