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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — The working document for the October assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality has called for responses to how all the baptized can better serve the Catholic Church and help heal humanity's "deepest wounds."
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National
By Anna Harvey and Nora Miller
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops celebrates Natural Family Planning Awareness Week July 21-27. This year, the theme is “Love Beyond Measure” and reflects on church teaching on marriage, responsible parenthood and living married love authentically.
Parishes
By Anna Harvey
This Fourth of July, many American families commenced the holiday’s festivities by attending local patriotic parades. But among the red, white, and blue decorations, parishioners of St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax infused the annual Fairfax Independence Day Parade with a little evangelization and a large statue of its patron.
Global
By Courtney Mares
The Vatican officially excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith announced July 5.
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will meet with young people, the marginalized, government officials, bishops, priests, religious and missionaries, when he travels to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore in September. The 12-day Asian tour will be the longest trip of his papacy. He intends to visit: Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, Sept. 3-6; Port […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY— God is present in the “dark corners” of local communities and in people’s lives, Pope Francis said. “His presence reveals itself precisely in the faces marked by suffering and where degradation seems to triumph,” the pope said in his homily at Mass in the northern Italian city of Trieste July 7. “God’s infinity […]
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Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — The sacrament of the anointing of the sick is not just for those who are nearing the end of their life, Pope Francis said. “Let us remember that the anointing of the sick is one of the ‘sacraments of healing,’ of ‘restoration,’ that heals the spirit,” the pope said in a video […]
Pope Francis
By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú
As every year during summer vacation time, the Vatican does not schedule any public, private or “special” audiences for Pope Francis in the Vatican, including the general audience on Wednesdays. The Vatican usually suspends such audiences on only two occasions: during the month of July and the week when the pontiff carries out his spiritual […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
Here to salute the Fourth of July are a few troubled thoughts on patriotism. Orestes Brownson, the most prominent American Catholic public intellectual of 19th century, discerned a divinely bestowed mission for the United States, exceeding even the historic roles of the ancient Greek and Roman republics. Here is how he put it in his […]
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