Pope Francis highlights what he calls the presidential candidates’ anti-life policies on abortion and migration.
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Judge denies emergency relief in lawsuit challenging limits on public funds for religious schools
The plaintiffs in the case have already filed a notice that they intend to appeal the order issued Thursday.
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Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Pope Francis’ main adviser on clergy abuse, retires as Boston archbishop
Pope Francis has named Richard Henning, the bishop of Providence, R.I., to succeed O’Malley as leader of one of the most important Catholic archdioceses in the country.
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Fired Maine Catholic priest officially defrocked by Vatican
Anthony Cipolle was fired from the diocese in 2020 after it was revealed that he was having inappropriate relationships with a parishioner, who was later killed by her brother-in-law.
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U.S. Catholic bishops approve outreach to Native Americans, acknowledge boarding school traumas
New guidelines outlining outreach to Native American Catholics was completed as details emerge of decades of widespread abuses inflicted on Native children at Catholic boarding schools.
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Vatican apologizes after Pope Francis is accused of using homophobic slur
The pope’s choice of words in a closed-door meeting with bishops appeared to run counter to his efforts to thaw the relationship with the LGBTQ+ community.
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Vatican moves to adapt to hoaxes, Internet and overhauls its process for evaluating visions of Mary
Pope Francis has expressed skepticism about more recent events, including claims of repeated messages from Mary to “seers” at the shrine of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Some of the Catholic Church’s best-known approved, and not approved, reports of apparitions of Mary
Previously approved apparitions have turned these sites into major pilgrimage destinations, drawing millions of people to them each year.
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Vatican blasts gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as violations of human dignity
From a pope who has made outreach to the LGBTQ+ community a hallmark of his papacy, the document was received as a setback, albeit a predictable one, by trans Catholics.
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Thomas Gumbleton, Catholic bishop who opposed war and promoted social justice, dies at 94
For decades, he was an international voice against war and racism and an advocate for labor and social justice.