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Texas Carmelites may be excommunicated after public letter rejecting Bishop Olson’s authority
OSV News
August 21, 2023
Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth said Aug. 19 that a community of Carmelites in his diocese, and their prioress in particular, may have incurred excommunication after posting a letter online Aug. 18 saying their community no longer recognizes ...
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Genocide report on Ukraine ‘worst news possible,’ says archbishop
OSV News
August 18, 2023
A new report on Russian atrocities in Ukraine is both "the worst possible news" and "welcome," a Ukrainian Catholic archbishop told OSV News.
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Baltimore Archdiocese’s gun buyback effort takes 362 firearms off streets
OSV News
August 17, 2023
Father Michael Murphy, pastor of St. Joseph's Monastery in Baltimore's Irvington neighborhood, is not sure how much of a dent an Aug. 5 gun buyback effort will make in the deadly violence that plagues cities such as Baltimore.
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Ohio archbishop urges Catholics to reject abortion amendment
OSV News
August 16, 2023
Cincinnati Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr has urged Catholics to reject a Nov. 7 ballot initiative on abortion he called an "extraordinary and dangerous attempt to radically reshape Ohio through a constitutional amendment that does nothing to aid women or promote ...
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Polish village prepares for Ulma family’s beatification
OSV News
August 15, 2023
A few years ago, people of the little village of Markowa, in southeastern Poland, would never have thought that in the summer of 2023, they would have dozens of guests coming to visit every day from all over the world.
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‘Oppenheimer’ Gives Catholics Opportunity to Explain Injustice of Nuclear Weapons
OSV News
August 14, 2023
The recently released cinema biopic “Oppenheimer” dramatizes the progressive development, assembly, testing and detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb which then led to the dropping of two such bombs over Japan in the twilight days of World War II.
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Panelists: Transhumanism seeks to one day replace humans