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Church response to refugees is part of pro-life call, bishop says
Jul 24, 2014
Answering the needs of refugee migrants is one component of a truly pro-life view, said a U.S. bishop, announcing a new initiative to aid children who have fled Central America for the United States.
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Religious liberty 'fundamental' to human dignity, bishops affirm
Jul 24, 2014
In a recent interview with CNA, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore reaffirmed religious liberty as a priority for the U.S. bishops, emphasizing its relation to personal dignity and evangelization.
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Pope Francis to meet with 20 young Asian leaders
Jul 24, 2014
During his upcoming apostolic voyage to South Korea Pope Francis is slated to meet with 20 Asian youth during the 2014 Asia Youth Day, including Korean pop-star BoA.
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Church leaders in Holy Land plead for end to violence in Gaza
Jul 23, 2014
The apostolic nuncio in the Holy Land has repeated the call of Pope Francis for an end to the violence in Gaza, and the Latin-rite Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem has denounced the bloodshed as a “massacre.”
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USCCB decries Obama’s LGBT executive order as ‘unprecedented and extreme’
Jul 23, 2014
Referring to the “irrefutable rightness of your cause,” President Barack Obama signed an executive order banning federal employment discrimination against transgendered persons and prohibiting “all companies that receive a contract from the federal government from discriminating against their LGBT employees.”
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Openness to beauty leads soul to God, says Catholic thinker
Jul 23, 2014
The senses are the “road to God”, who speaks to us through beauty, said Bill Donaghy, who holds a master's in systematic theology, at the recent Theology of the Body Congress held in Philadelphia.
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Pope Francis calls Syro-Catholic patriarch, assures of his prayers
Jul 23, 2014
According an Italian Catholic new organization, Pope Francis made a phone call to Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III Younan over the weekend to reassure him of his continued prayers for Iraqi Christians.
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‘Even Genghis Khan didn’t do this’: Mosul emptied of Christians
Jul 22, 2014
ISIL, the jihadist group that controls large sections of Syria and Iraq, confiscated the Christians’ possessions as they departed from Iraq’s 2nd-largest city.
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Amid violence, priest opts to stay with parishioners in Gaza
Jul 22, 2014
Argentinean priest Father Jorge Hernandez, pastor of Holy Family Parish in the Gaza strip, stayed with his parishioners despite three missile strikes near his parish earlier this week.
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Bishops: Executive order is flawed approach to discrimination
Jul 22, 2014
Leading U.S. bishops voiced strong criticism of an “unprecedented and extreme” new executive order, saying that it adds to discrimination problems rather than finding real solutions to them.
Sunday Reflection
Embracing the wisdom of the human heart
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr George Vaithynathan