Global Church News
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Cardinal Gracias says Curia reform will have ‘Francis effect’
Jul 12, 2019
Several things, meetings … I’m participating in the anglophone meeting for the protection of minors that brings together English-speaking bishops from around the world.
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Hong Kong, protests followed by alarming wave of depression
Jul 12, 2019
After almost four weeks of unprecedented protests against the extradition bill, experts are warning that Hong Kong is facing a mental health crisis.
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Demography changes in India: the elderly are on the rise
Jul 12, 2019
The Indian population is growing older, has fewer children and the number of elderly people is growing.
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New European appointments, alarm bells for Beijing
Jul 12, 2019
The appointments that are changing the face of the European Union are sounding some alarm bells in China.
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World becoming more elitist, cruel towards excluded
Jul 12, 2019
The excluded, especially migrants and refugees, are the ones who ultimately pay the price for humanity’s greed, Pope Francis said.
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Vatican encourages celebration of the Season of Creation
Jul 12, 2019
Pope Francis declared in June that climate change is an emergency and he urged Church leaders and communities to celebrate the Season of Creation.
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Chicago woman’s healing is miracle in Cardinal Newman’s sainthood cause
Jul 12, 2019
A few prayers to Blessed John Henry Newman became a "constant dialogue" and then a desperate response to an emergency for Melissa Villalobos of Chicago.
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Blessed John Henry Newman
Jul 12, 2019
John Henry Newman, the 19th-century’s most important English-speaking Roman Catholic theologian, spent the first half of his life as an Anglican and the second half as a Roman Catholic. He was a priest, popular preacher, writer, and eminent theologian in both Churches.
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Theology needs radical revisioning
Jul 12, 2019
In August 2018, the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg boldly went on a school strike to oppose climate change and inspired thousands of youth arou
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Korean Catholics praise Trump-Kim summit
Jul 12, 2019
The Korean Catholic Church has welcomed the latest leaders’ summit between the US and North Korea as an important step towards achieving denuclearisation and a lasting peace.
Sunday Reflection
Fifteenth Sunday: The good samaritan next door
The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a parable of living the Law of the Lord. That is how the parable begins. That is what the scholar of the Law asked Jesus to comment on.
