Focus
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Amazonia: The gift and the challenge (Part I)
Sep 28, 2019
Amazonia is a major source of the oxygen that drives physical life on the planet. It is possible that very soon we will be thanking Amazonia for spiritual refueling as well.
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Attacks against Pope Francis are aimed at influencing the next conclave
Sep 28, 2019
“The attacks against Pope Francis in the church today” are “a fight between those who want the church dreamed of by the Second Vatican Council and those who do not want this,” Arturo Sosa, the Superior General of the Jesuits, stated at the Foreign Press Association in Rome on Sept. 16.
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German Bishops rejected plan for Francis-style ‘Priority of Evangelization’ in synodal path
Sep 20, 2019
The German bishops have rejected an alternative proposal for a synodal process centered on the “priority of evangelization” called for by Pope Francis.
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Synodality is not synonymous with democracy
Sep 20, 2019
The proposed make-up of the Synodal Assembly is “not ecclesiologically valid.” It cited the bishops’ proposed partnership with the Central Committee of German Catholics, a lay group that has taken public stances against a range of Church teachings, including on women’s ordination and sexual morality.
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German synod plans ‘not ecclesiologically valid’
Sep 20, 2019
In a letter sent to German bishops last week, the Vatican has said that plans for a binding Church synod in Germany are “not ecclesiologically valid.”
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Fires on the African continent and those of the Amazon
Sep 14, 2019
NASA has said Africa is home to at least 70% of the 10,000 fires burning worldwide on an average August day, though the agency says the number of fires is consistent from year to year.
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Church groups draft Laudato Si’ implementation strategies
Sep 14, 2019
Church groups met in Manila to come up with “concrete ecological actions” that will address what they described as a “climate emergency.”
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Declare food and nutrition emergency, say Bishops
Sep 14, 2019
Catholic Bishops in Argentina are calling on the government to declare a food and nutrition emergency in response to heightened inflation and rising poverty rates.
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Season of Creation spotlights threats to biodiversity
Sep 06, 2019
Wildfires rage in the Amazon rainforest and other parts of the globe. Up to one million species face extinction, in large part due to human activities
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Pope Francis on Amazon: That forest lung is vital for our planet
Aug 30, 2019
Pope Francis prays that Amazon fires might be contained as possible.
Sunday Reflection
Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time: And Jesus said: “Love Your Enemies”
Hatred kills. There is nothing earth shaking about that statement. Wars demonstrate this. There are people who hate other people and who do everything they can to eliminate the those people.
