Vatican to study how to address 'spiritual abuse' in church law
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Legislative Texts are setting up a working group to study how "spiritual...
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Priests need better formation in church history to share Gospel, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A true study and understanding of the church's history and experience are needed to help priests better interpret today's world,...
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St. Peter's Basilica launches magazine, installs new webcams
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- To help people who cannot travel to Rome but want to pray at the tomb of St. Peter and cross the threshold of the Holy Door, St....
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Pope asks St. John Paul II institute to study threats to marriage, family
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church must respond to cultural challenges facing marriage and family life with unity and compassion, Pope Francis said,...
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Here is the miracle that now paves the way for Pier Giorgio Frassati's canonization
Pope Francis recognized a miracle attributed to Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati's intercession on Monday, paving the way for his canonization as a saint...
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Pope declares Spanish mystic 'blessed,' advances other sainthood causes
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Using what the Vatican called an "equipollent" or equivalent beatification, Pope Francis recognized as "blessed" a 15th-century Spanish...
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Final synod document is magisterial, must be accepted, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Doubling down on the centrality of synodality in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said that it is now up to local churches to accept...
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Churches, faith groups join forces in Britain against 'deceptive' assisted suicide bill
OXFORD, England (OSV News) -- Churches and faith groups across the United Kingdom have condemned a bill to allow physician-assisted suicide and stepped...
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Pope to open Holy Year with full schedule of Christmas liturgies
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With the opening of the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis' schedule of liturgies in December and January has expanded. The pope, who...
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Pope appoints US cardinal to manage Vatican's troubled pension fund
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, as the sole administrator...
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Pope calls for investigation of possible genocide in Gaza
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said the international community should investigate whether Israel's military actions in Gaza constitute genocide. "According...
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Pope approves simplified rites for papal funeral, burial
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis, who will celebrate his 88th birthday in December, has approved simplified liturgical rites for the death of a pontiff. His...
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Pope says he'll canonize Acutis, Frassati, host meeting on child's rights
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis announced that he will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati next year and that the Vatican will...
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Notre Dame de Paris returns to her cathedral with thousands of Parisians walking her home
PARIS (OSV News) -- Miraculously missed by burning beams falling from the roof on April 15, 2019, and waiting for five years to make it back to Notre Dame...
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Nicaragua expels bishops' conference's president
(OSV News) -- The ruling Sandinista regime expelled the president of the Nicaraguan bishops' conference, further decimating the country's Catholic leadership...
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In Singapore, Spain and Poland Catholic communities in shock after attacks on priests
(OSV News) -- A cardinal in Singapore has called for religious and racial unity after a priest was stabbed in the face during Mass, an incident that has...
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Red Wednesday to put Christian persecution in the spotlight
DUBLIN (OSV News) -- From Sydney to Santiago, Chile, Catholics across the globe are coming together this November to stand in solidarity with those who...
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Nicaragua bars priests from anointing the dying in hospitals
The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, is preventing priests from entering hospitals in Nicaragua to...
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British Catholics react to Anglican archbishop's shock resignation
LONDON (OSV News) -- Leading British Catholics have urged their church to avoid involvement in the resignation of the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury,...
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Selfishness is blocking progress on climate change, cardinal says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Efforts to slow climate change and mitigate its impact, particularly on the poor, are being thwarted by selfishness, the Vatican...
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Head of Anglican Communion resigns over failures in dealing with 'abhorrent' abuse case
LONDON, England (OSV News) -- Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Communion, resigned Nov. 12 due to failures in dealing with...
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Dutch church leaders react with shock to antisemitic violence in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM (OSV News) -- The Dutch bishops' conference and Amsterdam's St. Nicholas Parish reacted with horror to the violence against Israeli soccer supporters...
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Italian Capuchin succeeds Cardinal Cantalamessa as papal preacher
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis appointed a new preacher of the papal household: a 53-year-old Italian Capuchin priest who studied computer science...
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As Poles remember murdered priest, Catholic researchers' work on communism's martyrs continues
WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) -- On Warsaw's Narbutta Street, amid a carpet of autumn leaves, a neoclassical building stands between bare birches, fronted...
Read MoreBe on the lookout for hope; keep moving forward in faith, pope writes
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians should make a practice each night of identifying signs of hope, even small ones, that came their way during the day, Pope...
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Top Vatican official hopes Trump will promote peace, national unity
ROME (CNS) -- The Vatican secretary of state said his prayer for Donald J. Trump is that God would grant him wisdom "because that is the main virtue of...
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Pope: Rome's Jesuit-run university must be rooted in Gospel, voice of poor
ROME (CNS) -- Fewer lecterns and more round tables are needed in higher education for students and staff to come together to dialogue, seek the truth and...
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Thousands of volunteers arrive to help with cleaning, other tasks after tragic flood in Spain
MADRID (OSV News) -- As Spain mourns the death of over 200 victims of the biggest peacetime disaster in decades, volunteers poured into the country's Valencia...
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Pope names another new cardinal for December consistory
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has decided to include Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples among the prelates he will make cardinals Dec. 7, the...
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Sainthood cause to open for beloved Irish actress turned nun, parish priest confirms
DUBLIN (OSV News) -- The sainthood cause of an Irish nun killed in an earthquake in Ecuador in 2016 is to open early next year, it has been revealed. Derry-born...
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Pope: Love is the most important commandment
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The guiding principle of love extolled by Jesus cuts through confusion around how to uphold God's commandments to humanity, Pope...
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Pope praises courageous, resilient faith of Catholics persecuted in past
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The "small yet vibrant church" in Estonia has been a source of compassion and spiritual sustenance for countless people in the Baltic...
Read MoreOn All Souls, pope prays at graves of children, miscarried infants
ROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis prayed at the graves of children and of miscarried babies on the feast of All Souls before concelebrating Mass with several...
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Pope: Make sure confirmation is not last time parish sees young people
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church must put more effort into ensuring that the sacrament of confirmation is not the "sacrament of goodbye" for young...
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