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Cardinal condemns deadly attacks on DRC protesters
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 4, 2018 at 4:37 am Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan 4, 2018 / 04:37 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A Catholic cardinal in the Democratic Republic of Congo has strongly
condemned security forces'...
Ireland remains one of Europe's most religious nations (Our Sunday Visitor)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 4:01 amVenezuelan cardinal calls for fair elections, government action against hunger (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 4:01 am In a radio interview, Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino of Caracas called upon Venezuela’s government to take effective action against hunger.
Nicaraguan cardinal denounces violence against women (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 4:01 am In his New Year’s Day Mass, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes of Managua denounced violence against women.
Priests meet with Pope as synods approach (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 4:01 am At his January 3 general audience, Pope Francis met briefly with two priests, with whom he discussed upcoming synods of bishops.
Catholics ‘fleeing Bosnia-Herzegovina’ over discrimination
Catholic Herald - Jan 4, 2018 at 3:56 am Up to 10,000 Catholics are leaving Bosnia-Herzegovina every year because of state discrimination against the religious minority, according to the country’s cardinal. Cardinal...
Catholics and Mormons have more in common than we may think
Catholic Herald - Jan 4, 2018 at 3:35 am You know the old joke: “An Anglican, a Catholic, and a Mormon walk into a Jamaican orphanage…” In this case, the Anglican was yours truly circa 2011, half a decade before I became...
European Catholic, Protestant organizations help launch refugee advocacy coalition (Welcoming Europe)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 3:01 amSuicide bomber kills 11 people in mosque attack in northeast Nigeria (Reuters)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 3:01 amIndia's bishops, in New Year's message, decry persecution of Christians by Hindu nationalists (Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 3:01 am “We appeal to leaders across the political spectrum to recognize that groups and individuals spreading poison and sowing hatred are increasing and are being emboldened,” the...
USCCB, CRS urge Catholics to advocate on behalf of refugees, DREAM Act (Catholics Confront Global Poverty)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 3:01 amCongo's bishops denounce government attacks on churches, peaceful protestors (AFP)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 3:01 am Here are links to the French-language statements of the nation’s bishops and Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa.
Planned Parenthood: over $500 million in government funding for fiscal year (Planned Parenthood)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 3:01 am Planned Parenthood collected $544 million in government funds in the past fiscal year, according to the group’s annual report. For the fiscal year that ended in June 2017, Planned...
2018 marks 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae (Our Sunday Visitor)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 3:01 am Russell Shaw writes that the encyclical upholding Catholic teaching on birth control “was a turning point, a watershed event in the life of the Church.” Click here for the full...
UN Secretary-General calls for unity in facing challenges in 2018? (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 3:01 amThe Amoris Laetitia Dissenters
Vatican Insider - Jan 4, 2018 at 2:44 am If loyal Catholics around the world had hoped that the news of Pope Francis’ decision to raise the Buenos Aires Bishops’ Amoris Laetitia guidelines to the level of “authentic...
What Sexual Harassment “Crisis”?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 4, 2018 at 2:10 am
The sexual harassment frenzy of the last few months—and it can only be called a frenzy—is disturbing in many ways, and decent and right-minded people need to speak up about it....
Philippines: military officers to face charges for 2011 killing of Italian missionary priest (UCANews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 2:01 am Prosecutors in the Philippines will file charges against two military officers for arranging the 2011 murder of Father Fausto Tentorio. The Italian missionary, who served in...
Over 3 million children deprived of education in Afghanistan (TOLOnews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 4, 2018 at 2:01 am L’Osservatore Romano (1/4 Italian ed.) devoted front-page coverage to this story. TOLOnews is an Afghan news station.
