• Bishop urges faithful to exercise caution
    Bishop urges faithful to exercise caution
    June 26, 2020
    Bishop Weisenburger is concerned about the recent spike in Covid - 19 cases. He reminds the faithful that the Sunday mass obligation is suspended and to please exercise caution and wear a mask.
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  • DACA ruling called 'a beautiful moment'; concern about future remains
    DACA ruling called 'a beautiful moment'; concern about future remains
    June 26, 2020
    For Cinthia Padilla Ortiz, the Supreme Court's recent decision on the DACA program was "an unexpected and beautiful moment" and left her feeling "that sense of hope in our community."
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  • Trump's order on foster care backs partnerships with faith-based agencies
    Trump's order on foster care backs partnerships with faith-based agencies
    June 26, 2020
    President Donald Trump June 24 called for creating partnerships between state agencies and public, private, faith-based and community organizations "to help keep families together and, when that is not possible, to find children forever families."
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  • Supreme Court says asylum-seekers can't challenge deportations
    Supreme Court says asylum-seekers can't challenge deportations
    June 26, 2020
    In a 7-2 decision June 25, the Supreme Court said the Trump administration can deport some asylum-seekers without granting them a federal court hearing.
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  • UAE sends aid to Peru as part of Catholic-Muslim cooperation
    UAE sends aid to Peru as part of Catholic-Muslim cooperation
    June 26, 2020
    An ongoing dialogue between Catholic and Muslim educators took a very concrete turn June 25 when the United Arab Emirates sent a plane carrying 50 tons of humanitarian aid to a Peruvian city overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • Ignatius Press to publish cardinal's prison journal, help with legal costs
    Ignatius Press to publish cardinal's prison journal, help with legal costs
    June 26, 2020
    The Vatican welcomed the High Court's unanimous decision in April, recognizing the cardinal had "waited for the truth to be ascertained," and it reaffirmed "its commitment to preventing and pursuing all cases of abuse against minors."
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  • Annual audit shows more than 4,400 allegations of clergy abuse reported
    Annual audit shows more than 4,400 allegations of clergy abuse reported
    June 26, 2020
    More than 4,400 allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy were reported during the year ending June 30, 2019, a significant jump from the previous auditing period, according to a report on diocesan and eparchial compliance with the U.S. bishops' "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People."
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  • Nuevo Directorio de Catequesis: el Evangelio siempre actual
    Nuevo Directorio de Catequesis: el Evangelio siempre actual
    June 25, 2020
    Esta mañana a las 11.30, en el Aula "Juan Pablo II" de la Oficina de Prensa de la Santa Sede, se presentó el nuevo Directorio de Catequesis elaborado por el Pontificio Consejo para la Promoción de la Nueva Evangelización con el objetivo de que el Evangelio permanezca siempre actual en la cultura del encuentro
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  • New Directory for Catechesis released
    New Directory for Catechesis released
    June 25, 2020
    The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization releases a new Directory for Catechesis, providing guidelines for the Church’s mission of proclaiming the Gospel through catechesis and evangelization.
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  • Pope names administrator alongside Polish bishop under investigation
    Pope names administrator alongside Polish bishop under investigation
    June 25, 2020
    Pope Francis has named an apostolic administrator for a Polish diocese that came under scrutiny in a documentary investigating the current bishop's reported lack and delay of action in responding to accusations of the abuse of minors
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  • Catechesis is about a relationship, not just information, Vatican says
    Catechesis is about a relationship, not just information, Vatican says
    June 25, 2020
    Teaching the faith is a work of evangelization meant to lead people to a deeper relationship with Jesus and not just impart information, said the updated "Directory for Catechesis."
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  • Justice movements need people united behind strategic goals, King says
    Justice movements need people united behind strategic goals, King says
    June 25, 2020
    The cause of greater justice for all will be best served when people unite with a focus on reaching strategic goals, Bernice King told Vatican News.
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  • Don't 'blackmail' kids into coming to church, archbishop says
    Don't 'blackmail' kids into coming to church, archbishop says
    June 25, 2020
    Although he said, "I would never go to war" over the proper age to administer the sacrament of confirmation, Archbishop Rino Fisichella said too often it seems that the sacrament is delayed to "blackmail" young people into continuing to come to church
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  • "Como Jesucristo, obligados a huir": Conocer para comprender
    June 24, 2020
    “No son números, sino personas. Si nos encontramos con ellos, podremos conocerlos. Y al conocer sus historias, podremos comprender”. Papa Francisco
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  • Pope Francis on the protection of migrants and refugees
    Pope Francis on the protection of migrants and refugees
    June 24, 2020
    “It’s not about numbers, it’s about people. If we meet them, we’ll get to know them. And if we know their stories, we’ll be able to understand them.” Pope Francis
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  • Wednesday Update, June 24, 2020
    Wednesday Update, June 24, 2020
    June 24, 2020
    Father Robert Tamminga, long time, beloved pastor of St. Francis de Sales Parish in Tucson, Arizona died the morning of June 17, 2020 after a short illness. His funeral Mass is today;
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  • Where’s the Catholic voice on the Holy Land both sides could hear?
    Where’s the Catholic voice on the Holy Land both sides could hear?
    June 24, 2020
    “The Holy Land is in flames, in a situation of war, and its holiness must be restored,” the three leaders wrote. Patriarch Michele Sabbah of the Catholic Church, Anglican Bishop Riah Abu El Assal and Lutheran Bishop Munib A. Younan.
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  • Francisco: Dios, el verdadero Compañero de camino de los seres humanos
    Francisco: Dios, el verdadero Compañero de camino de los seres humanos
    June 24, 2020
    “David tiene un sueño: el de ser un buen pastor”. La oración es la que asegura la relación con Dios y le permite ser “Compañero en medio de las travesías de la vida”.
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  • Amid pandemic, upheaval, world's poor seen needing help more than ever
    Amid pandemic, upheaval, world's poor seen needing help more than ever
    June 24, 2020
    "More than ever we need people of means to help people who have no means" to educate, feed, house and heal people around the globe, said Eustace W. Mita., the Philadelphia Catholic, president of the board of trustees of the U.S.-based Papal Foundation
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  • Nicaragua and El Salvador bishops push back against government-backed critics
    Nicaragua and El Salvador bishops push back against government-backed critics
    June 23, 2020
    The Bishops Conference of El Salvador released a statement on Sunday defending Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez after the “attacks in social media” the prelate received recently, due to a series of statements he made on the situation in the country. From Crux News
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