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Refusal to help migrants is ‘sinful, criminal,’ pope says at canonization
The refusal to help desperate migrants "is revolting, it's sinful, it's criminal," Pope Francis said as he canonized a bishop dedicated to assisting migrants and a Salesian brother who had immigrated with his family to Argentina.
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CRS launches campaign to build greater response to climate change
Working with small farmers in the Horn of Africa, Yohannes Subagadis with Catholic Relief Services keeps hearing how difficult it is for growers to raise even minimal crops for their families to live on let alone to have extra to ...
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Church, community help one another in Florida county hit hard by Ian
The 7-year-old boy who sat with his family in the cafeteria of Hardee Junior High School was too shy to say his name.
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Canadian bishops vow to follow pope’s example with Indigenous
Canada's bishops wound up their first in-person meetings in three years with discussion of concrete steps toward reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians.
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Author, former Marine, ponders how faith tempers horror, violence
In interviews with CNS over the past several months, Phil Klay talked extensively about how his Catholic faith has influenced his writing.
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German bishops outraged by Cardinal Koch’s Nazi comparison
The president of the German bishops' conference demanded an apology from a Swiss cardinal at the Vatican over comments that brought up Germany's Nazi past.
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Etienne: Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons ‘are of grave concern’
Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne said Oct. 7 he is “increasingly troubled” by Russia’s war against Ukraine and said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “irresponsible threats” to use nuclear weapons “are of grave concern.”