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MANILA, Philippines -- Retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz of Lingayen-Dagupan, former president of the Philippine bishops' conference, died in a Manila hospital Aug. 26 after complications from COVID-19, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines announced.
NEW YORK -- The hit movies "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" and "Just Mercy" were among this year's Christopher Awards movie winners.
VATICAN CITY -- Astronomers construct and play with a variety of mathematical models, and one popular model looks at how likely it is that civilizations on different planets could end up contacting each other.
BALTIMORE -- The pioneering women who fought for the right to vote are being hailed by the bishops of Maryland.
On Sept. 1, we observe the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, which begins a “Season of Creation” lasting until the memorial of St. Francis of Assisi Oct. 4. On the last Sunday of September, we observe the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
WASHINGTON -- Most movie patrons head for the exits once they see the closing credits start rolling.
WASHINGTON -- Growing up in Louisiana, Bishop David L. Toups is no stranger to hurricanes. Yet he never expected that less than a week into his first assignment as bishop of the Diocese of Beaumont, Texas, he'd be preparing to face a major hurricane.
VATICAN CITY -- Twenty-six weeks after his last weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis will resume his audiences with the public present, but in a Vatican courtyard.
Addressing racism means opening our hearts to an ongoing process of interior conversion as we “strive to see each other first as sons and daughters of God,” said Father Scott Woods, a priest in the Archdiocese of Washington, who spoke at the Aug. 25 diocesan conference, “Responding to Racism: Understanding, Conversion, Action.”
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You, too, take up your cross
It’s a shocking scene. Peter, just having heard Jesus foretell his coming suffering, death and resurrection for the first time, takes Jesus and rebukes him. “God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” It seems like a loving concern the disciple has for his Master. But Peter is thinking as men do, not as God does. He does not realize the true nature of Jesus’ mission and that it involves suffering, dying and rising again.