Members of the Leadership Council for Women Religious (LCWR) are upset that the Vatican has sent a representative to attend their annual conference, accusing the Church of putting a "cloud" over their affair.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The secular media is abuzz this week with headlines claiming Pope Francis may "soften" the Church's stance toward homosexuals because of comments he made during an impromptu press conference held on board his flight back to Rome on Sunday.
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A 62 year-0ld Franciscan priest is grateful to be alive after a thief pointed a gun at him and demanded his car keys while he was standing in front of his church in Wilmington, Delaware.
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It was 45 years-ago today that Pope Paul VI promulgated one of the most important Church documents of the 20th century -
Humanae Vitae.
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World Youth Day 2013 officially kicks off in the Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro on July 23, beginning with Pope Francis' arrival and ending with an outdoor Mass that some say could draw as many as three million people.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe nation's premier dissident "Catholic" newspaper, the National Catholic Reporter, is demanding that Cardinal Timothy Dolan address the "hot heads" at EWTN's National Catholic Register for promulgating a petition to strip the errant Catholic Health Association of its name.
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A 50 year-old Costa Rican woman who was healed of a brain aneurism has been revealed as the recipient of the second miracle needed in order to clear the way to canonization of Pope John Paul II.
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On Friday, July 5, Pope Francis published his first encyclical,
Lumen Fidei (
Light of Faith), a document that was begun by Pope Benedict XVI during his pontificate.
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Authorities are now saying that Franciscan Father Francois Murad, a Catholic priest who was killed by al-Qaeda linked extremists, was not beheaded as originally reported, but was actually shot while in the process of defending nuns at a monastery.
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The Vatican is confirming that a Syrian Catholic priest was beheaded by jihadi fighters in Syria last week after his monastery was overrun by Muslim extremists.
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