• New report details abuse, assault allegations against Catholic composer Haas
    New report details abuse, assault allegations against Catholic composer Haas
    October 13, 2020
    A report detailing sexual abuse and assault allegations against Catholic musician and composer David Haas describes him using his influence as a faith leader in grooming victim/survivors and suppressing reports or concerns about his behavior.
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  • Pope meets Pell: ‘Vindication’ yes, ‘resurgence’ not so fast
    Pope meets Pell: ‘Vindication’ yes, ‘resurgence’ not so fast
    October 13, 2020
    Cardinal George Pell meets Pope Francis Monday, oct. 12, 2020. (Credit: Vatican News.)
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  • Barrett’s nomination highlights women with large families; new research looks into the issue
    Barrett’s nomination highlights women with large families; new research looks into the issue
    October 12, 2020
    Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett with six of her seven children at a White House reception with President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, Sept. 26, 2020. (Credit: Andrea Hanks/White House.)
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  • Essential Background: Pope gives relics of St. Peter to Orthodox patriarch
    Essential Background: Pope gives relics of St. Peter to Orthodox patriarch
    October 12, 2020
    In what Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople described as a "brave and bold" gesture, Pope Francis gave the patriarch a famous reliquary containing bone fragments believed to belong to St. Peter.
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  • Essential Background: New Orthodox schism stalls ecumenical dialogue, Vatican official says
    Essential Background: New Orthodox schism stalls ecumenical dialogue, Vatican official says
    October 12, 2020
    A significant rupture between Orthodox churches in Ukraine has brought the official theological dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox to a standstill, according to a Vatican official involved in the talks.
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  • Essential Background: True belief leads to respect, peace, pope says at interreligious meeting
    Essential Background: True belief leads to respect, peace, pope says at interreligious meeting
    October 12, 2020
    On February 4, 2020, Pope and Imam, Egyptian Sheik Ahmad el-Tayeb, the grand imam of al-Azhar and chair of the Muslim Council of Elders, sign "A Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together."
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  • Essential Background: Pope arrives in Abu Dhabi, praying for nearby Yemen
    Essential Background: Pope arrives in Abu Dhabi, praying for nearby Yemen
    October 12, 2020
    In February 2020, Pope Francis walks with Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of United Arab Emirates, upon his arrival at Abu Dhabi Presidential Flight airport in United Arab Emirates, Feb. 3, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) See POPE-UAE-ARRIVAL Feb. 3, 2019.
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  • Bioethics questions emerge from experimental drug used in COVID-19 treatment
    Bioethics questions emerge from experimental drug used in COVID-19 treatment
    October 12, 2020
    President Donald Trump speaks outside the White House in which he describes his treatment for COVID-19 with an experimental antibody drug from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. 
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  • Beatified teen showed that heaven is 'attainable goal,' cardinal says
    Beatified teen showed that heaven is 'attainable goal,' cardinal says
    October 12, 2020
    Thousands sang and applauded as Italian teen Carlo Acutis was beatified in a town dear to him and to many Christians around the world: Assisi.
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  • Nueva encíclica del papa Francisco es descrita como 'profunda y hermosa'
    Nueva encíclica del papa Francisco es descrita como 'profunda y hermosa'
    October 12, 2020
    En su nueva encíclica, "Fratelli Tutti, sobre la fraternidad y la amistad social", el papa Francisco recuerda a los fieles que "el plan de Dios para la humanidad tiene implicaciones para todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas."
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  • Essential Background: UAE sends aid to Peru and normalizes relations with Israel
    Essential Background: UAE sends aid to Peru and normalizes relations with Israel
    October 11, 2020
    "Whole populations are facing not only the pandemic, but poverty, which the lockdown has intensified," he said. "In this situation, their priority is survival, so we must first meet basic necessities -- food and health supplies -- then move to educational needs. It is an approach that opens a path to integral education."
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  • 'Our answer to terror is fraternity': Fratelli Tutti
    'Our answer to terror is fraternity': Fratelli Tutti
    October 11, 2020
    "We do not want to tear down, we do not want to give insult. We have no desire to conquer hatred with more hatred, violence with more violence, terror with more terror." - World Youth Day 2016, Pope Francis
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  • Time is running out to fix economy, protect the Earth, help the poor - Pope Francis
    Time is running out to fix economy, protect the Earth, help the poor - Pope Francis
    October 11, 2020
    The predominant global economic system is "unsustainable," particularly in its impact on the environment, Pope Francis said.
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  • Bioethics questions emerge from experimental drug used in COVID-19 treatment
    Bioethics questions emerge from experimental drug used in COVID-19 treatment
    October 11, 2020
    President Donald Trump speaks outside the White House in this still image taken from a social media video released Oct. 8, 2020, in which he describes his treatment for COVID-19 with an experimental antibody drug from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. (CNS photo/@realDonaldTrump via Reuters
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  • ‘Restless Heart’: In new book, Catholic woman shares struggle to understand her sexuality
    ‘Restless Heart’: In new book, Catholic woman shares struggle to understand her sexuality
    October 10, 2020
    By the age of 18, Kim Zember was leading what she called a double life. She had a boyfriend, she would attend Mass with her family every Sunday - and then go meet the woman she was secretly seeing at the time for drinks by the pool.
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  • Tucson seminarians instituted as Lector
    Tucson seminarians instituted as Lector
    October 9, 2020
    Follow the path of Jesus Francisco Gomez and Alan Soto Hopkins to service of Christ and the Church
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  • St. John Student Wins Handwriting Award
    St. John Student Wins Handwriting Award
    October 9, 2020
    Elizabeth was selected from among approximately 280,000 students in the entire United States for her excellent handwriting legibility and literacy skills — as a kindergarten student!
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  • El Paso bishop tests positive for COVID-19, quarantines self
    El Paso bishop tests positive for COVID-19, quarantines self
    October 8, 2020
    Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso is self-quarantining at his home after a test taken Oct. 3 indicated he had tested positive for COVID-19.
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  • What does virtual religious ed look like in a Catholic school?
    What does virtual religious ed look like in a Catholic school?
    October 8, 2020
    Take a peek inside an Immaculate Heart Academy classroom.
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  • “Fratelli tutti”: summary of Pope Francis's Social Encyclical
    “Fratelli tutti”: summary of Pope Francis's Social Encyclical
    October 8, 2020
    Fraternity and social friendship are the ways the Pontiff indicates to build a better, more just and peaceful world, with the contribution of all: people and institutions. With an emphatic confirmation of a ‘no’ to war and to globalized indifference.
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