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Francis, the comic strip: The world needs love
Francis, the comic strip: With so little love in the world, Brother Leo helps Francis find some.
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These difficult times require us becoming ‘mature disciples’
What we need today are mature disciples who anchor themselves in the practice of prayer, writes Dan Horan.
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Bishops condemn Trump’s immigration orders for stoking fear, anxiety
Catholic advocacy groups, southern border dioceses and the U.S. bishops’ conference are expressing deep concern after President Trump signed a series of executive orders targeting immigration on his first week …
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Read the 1985 editorial when NCR exposed the clergy sex abuse scandal
Forty years ago this June, the National Catholic Reporter began publishing stories about U.S. Catholic priests sexually abusing children. This is an NCR editorial that ran with that first coverage …
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Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Hebrews 7:25—8:6 Jesus is always able to save those who approach God through him, since he lives forever to make intercession for them. It was fitting that we …
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Burma’s first military chaplains offer sacraments, spiritual support to front line soldiers
“People are tired, sad, and disoriented because of the violence that never ceases,” said Bishop Nyunt Wai of Mawlamyine in southern Burma (Myanmar), referring to the war that has ravaged the country …
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Trump ends policy of treating churches as ‘sensitive locations’ for immigration raids
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Seal. / Credit: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2025 / 17:45 pm (CNA). The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under President Donald Trump this …
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Sodality of Christian Life reports it made reparations to 83 victims of abuse
Luis Fernando Figari founded the Sodalitium in Peru in 1971. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI Prensa Lima Newsroom, Jan 22, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The Sodality of Christian Life has …
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Nicaraguan dictatorship confiscates seminary in Matagalpa
Seminarians at St. Aloysius Gonzaga in 2022. / Credit: Courtesy of the Diocese of Matagalpa Lima Newsroom, Jan 22, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). The seminary of the Diocese of …
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New Chinese bishop ordained under Vatican-China agreement
null / Credit: FreshStock/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2025 / 16:15 pm (CNA). The Vatican announced this week that Pope Francis has erected a new diocese in China and appointed Father Anthony …