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News from the Vatican
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Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for the release of Catholic school students and teachers – among them more than 300 girls and boys aged 12-18 – taken hostage this week in Nigeria , and for the release...
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Pope Leo XIV opened a virtual meeting with American Catholic young people Friday by revealing a closely held pontifical secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day.
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Pope Leo XIV fixed a technical glitch on Friday in a Vatican law that became problematic after Pope Francis named the first-ever woman to head the Vatican City State administration.
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Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight about it. That repeated splintering is what makes the Council of Nicaea — a...
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The Catholic Spirit
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3 hours ago"Rental Family" (Searchlight), a gently sentimental blend of comedy and drama set in Japan, has the tone of a classic Frank Capra film with maybe a little of "Mrs. Doubtfire" tossed into the mix. Yet... -
3 hours agoThe work that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) does, “like the work of any episcopal conference, has to be pastoral,” said Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and... -
4 hours agoA bishop’s golden crosier, or hooked staff, found in a scrapyard in St. Paul has drawn the man who discovered it into a journey back to the Catholic Church of his youth. -
5 hours agoA stakeholder -- and next owner -- of the Chicago White Sox baseball team said Pope Leo XIV told him that he'd "love to" throw a season opening first pitch in the future -- "schedule permitting." -
6 hours agoMovies with a Christmas theme abound but ones that focus on Thanksgiving are rarer. Still, a handful of notable films have incorporated the November holiday into their plots.
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