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How I found love at Wendy’s
Soul Seeing: Here at a Wendy’s, love was patience. Here, love was kindness in the form of a carefully wrapped fish sandwich.
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New novel ‘Canticle’ centers a woman’s experience of God
Janet Rich Edwards brings historical acuity and imaginative sensitivity to Canticle, a debut novel and work of historical fiction set in 13th-century Brugge among the beguines.
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Tia Noelle Pratt’s ‘Black and Catholic’ puts a neglected community at the forefront
Sociologist Tia Noelle Pratt’s new book, Black and Catholic: Racism, Identity, and Religion, is “an unapologetic statement in scholarly form that we, Black Catholics, are here and we matter,” writes Rana …
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Pontiff to celebrate Sunday Mass at 5 Roman parishes (Diocese of Rome (Italian))
The Diocese of Rome has announced that on each of the first five Sundays of Lent, Pope Leo XIV will visit a parish in Rome: Santa Maria Regina Pacis in …
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Guatemalan Primate suspends some Sunday Masses (ADN CELAM (Spanish))
As gang violence and prison riots led Guatemala’s president to declare a state of emergency, the nation’s Primate suspended Sunday evening Masses in his archdiocese on January 18. Archbishop Gonzalo …
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Pope encourages Puerto Rico’s bishops to promote peace within dioceses (Vatican News (Spanish))
Pope Leo XIV received the bishops of Puerto Rico and encouraged them to be “bearers of fraternal communion and to strive for peace in all our dioceses,” according to a …
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Pope receives Grand Duke, Duchess of Luxembourg (Vatican News)
Pope Leo XIV received Grand Duke Guillaume, Luxembourg’s head of state, and his consort, Grand Duchess Stéphanie. The Grand Duke subsequently met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State …
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Papal message: Catholic social teaching shows path to peaceful coexistence (Vatican News)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, sent a message in Pope Leo’s name to participants in a conference on Catholic social thought and peacebuilding in Europe. …
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Profile of the Church in Algeria (CWN)
The Church in Algeria has 8,740 Catholics, or 0.2% of the total Algerian population of 45,398,000, according to statistics in the new (2025) edition of the Annuario Pontificio [Pontifical Yearbook], …
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Background: Sunday of the Word of God (CWN)
On Sunday, January 25—the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time—the Church commemorates the 7th Sunday of the Word of God. Pope Francis instituted the commemoration with his 2019 apostolic letter Aperuit …