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Church must seek new paths in Amazon, synod secretaries say

The Synod of Bishops for the Amazon will help the Catholic Church make its presence felt and voice heard in a region that is dangerously approaching “a point of no return,” said the special secretaries of the Synod. “It is a great and continuing challenge for the Catholic Church to make the original Amazonian peoples […]

From inspiration to adoption: A story of working with Mother Teresa

More than 20 years ago, Ann Pollak travelled to Calcutta, hoping to volunteer alongside Mother Teresa. The experience would spark a years-long process that would eventually lead her to adopt a severely handicapped child from one of the care centres run by the Missionaries of Charity. “It has not been easy, at all, but the […]

Hypocrisy of ‘spiritual tourism’ destroys the church, Pope says

Christians who focus more on being superficially close to the church rather than care for their fellow brothers and sisters are like tourists who wander around aimlessly, Pope Francis said. People “who are always passing by but never enter the church” in a fully communal way of sharing and caring engage in a sort of […]

Update: In Colombia, bishops, religious listen to Amazonians before synod

Bishops, nuns, priests and residents of the Amazon basin met in Colombia’s capital city in mid-August to prepare for a special Synod of Bishops for the Amazon this fall at the Vatican. The meeting gave bishops who will be attending the Synod a chance to develop proposals and listen to residents of the Amazon region, […]

Vatican official: Church must be prudent judging Medjugorje apparitions

Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, is a place of prayer, con-version and pilgrimage for millions of people, but the church must be prudent and not rush to any judgment on the alleged Marian apparitions there, said Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization. Speaking to Catholic News Service at Knock Shrine in County […]

Christians in northeast Syria appeal for prayer for safety

Groups representing Christians in northeast Syria are appeal-ing for prayer, fearful that Turkey plans to make good its numerous threats to invade the region with its military forces. Since November 2018, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch a large military operation east of the Euphrates River to “clear Kurdish terrorists” from the […]

German archbishop in Auschwitz: Stand up against hubris of the politically powerful

On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland, a German archbishop has called for a stand against hubris and arrogance of those in political power. Speaking on the occasion of a Mass in the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz on August 14, Archbishop Ludwig Schick of Bamberg recalled the […]

Jesuit superior general: Satan is a ‘symbolic reality’

The superior general of the Society of Jesus said on August 21 that the devil is a symbol, but not a person. The devil, “exists as the personification of evil in different structures, but not in persons, because is not a person, is a way of acting evil. He is not a person like a […]

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