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Word on Fire
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Catholic News Service
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Rome Reports
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Whispers in the Loggia
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Always slated to be American Catholicism's Main Event of 2020 – yet now, an even more poignant and notable one amid the pandemic that's robbed it of a congregation – from Atlanta's empty Cathedral of...
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Fifty days into a Stateside Church in lockdown, this first of May brings the latest edition of a ritual as old as American Catholicism itself. A practice employed both in hours of celebration and...
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Again, Buona Pasqua – Happy Easter – to one and all, especially those among us seeking its light, joy and hope all the more this year. A couple hundred feet, but really a world away from its usual...
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Surrexit Dominus Vere, Alleluia – Buona Pasqua a tutti! Happy Easter to all... yet even if the event and its message is the same, this time the feeling and the scene are all too different. Again from...
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Even as the liturgical shutdown of most of the Western church approaches the one-month mark, in a particular way, this is the night when the hit really sinks in. With a disorienting Lent now...
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It is a Palm Sunday – the beginning of a Week – like the Christian world has never seen: far from the usual teeming crowds, full choirs and vivid scenes, this time, the pandemic-induced lockdown of...
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Lest anyone hasn't heard it before, there's an old line in this business – indeed, both sides of it – about keeping things together with "Band-Aids and spit," or some variation thereof. As...
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Catholic News Service
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Patrick T. Fallon, Reuters By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As daily protests over the death of George Floyd while in the custody of a Minneapolis police officer have spilled...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Luc Gnago, Reuters By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Raising money by selling white cloth face masks, a parish in the Ivory Coast has begun a project to provide food and other necessities to...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Fernie Ceniceros, courtesy Diocese of El Paso By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- It's called "taking a knee," and many professional athletes around the country have made...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Sylvia Jarrus, Reuters By Gabriella Patti DETROIT (CNS) -- When a black man is just a boy, his parents will likely have two conversations with him. The first is about life in general...
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IMAGE: CNS/Bob Roller By Godfrey Olukya KAMPALA, Uganda (CNS) -- At the annual Uganda Martyrs Day Mass, shared through video, Catholics were urged to remember two nuns who were healed of bubonic...
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IMAGE: USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters Co By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With anger and frustration still high in the United States over the death of George Floyd, religious leaders should...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In the story of the patriarch Abraham -- honored by Jews, Christians and Muslims -- faith becomes a direct relationship with God...
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National Catholic Register
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By Kathy Schiffer | The world’s largest company devoted exclusively to research and manufacture of vaccines has discontinued production of their Poliovax vaccine, which is produced using a cell line...
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By Michele Chabin | JERUSALEM — For the past two months Maria Ramos yearned to pray in a church, but the closure of all houses of worship in the Holy Land, aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus.
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By Catholic News Agency | HONG KONG, China — Thousands of protesters in Hong Kong held public vigils for the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Thursday, despite police orders..
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By Matt Hadro/CNA. | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn has denied a second allegation of sexual abuse, and said he is considering taking legal action for libel against his...
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By Solène Tadié | The singular and comforting story of Catholic doctor Christian Chenay, France’s oldest practicing physician, has gone ’round the Western world over the past weeks, as...
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The Best Way For Communion During Pandemic, Notice a Hermeneutics of Continuity in Wyoming And More!By Tito Edwards | The Ultimate Solution for Communion in Time of the Coronavirus – Fr. Z’s Blog +1 Do You Notice a Hermeneutics of Continuity in Wyoming? – Fr. Allan J. McDonald at Southern Orders...
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By Jack Yoest | Choose life and not death! — 2 Kings 18:32 Don’t begin until you count the cost… — Luke 14:28 We saw the videos. Dystopian rioters in Walmart were fighting over toilet...
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News from the Vatican
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To celebrate the 160th anniversary of the Pontifical North American College in Rome, the seminary has released a CD of its choir singing motets and liturgical pieces.
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Sports fans and collectors will have an opportunity to bid on unique items and memorabilia as part of an online charity auction to benefit health care workers in northern Italy.
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Continuing a phased reopening, the Vatican's free pediatric and maternal health clinic began welcoming patients again June 3 and, as an expression of gratitude, the Vatican announced all medical...
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Pope Francis asked that the world's Franciscans and devotees of St. Anthony of Padua be inspired by this 13th-century saint by being "restless" to hit the road and share God's love through...
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In the story of the patriarch Abraham -- honored by Jews, Christians and Muslims -- faith becomes a direct relationship with God that is marked by constant prayer, which sometimes takes the form of...
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