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May 13, 2019

The Amazon synod “will have universal repercussions”, Cardinal Cláudio Hummes has said. There is an “increased trust” between the Vatican and China, Cardinal Pietro Parolin has told the Global Times. Andrea Tornielli explains why Pope Francis has permitted pilgrimages to Medjugorje. Mary Rezac profiles the new US priests of 2019. Gretchen Crowe hails Bishop Robert

Papal almoner restores power to building occupied by homeless

May 13, 2019

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski climbed down a manhole Saturday to restore the power supply to a disused, Italian state-owned property in Rome where many homeless persons have been living. The building’s power was cut by the electricity supplier May 6 because it had accumulated a debt of some 300,000 euro ($337,000). It has been occupied since

Has Harvard conceded to ‘the Great Awokening’? The truth may be more complicated

May 13, 2019

Over the weekend, while fathers were finding last minute Mother’s Day gifts, Harvard announced that one of their most celebrated criminal law scholars, Ronald Sullivan, and his wife Stephanie Robinson, who also teaches in the Law School, would not be renewed as faculty deans of Winthrop House, one of Harvard’s 12 residential houses on campus.

Four bishops sign on to letter voicing concerns with Equality Act

May 13, 2019

Four U.S. bishops, chairmen of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops committees or subcommittees, have signed on to a letter voicing religious freedom concerns with the Equality Act, introduced in the House this year. They are part of a group of a dozen Christian leaders who signed the May 7 letter to House members. In the

Canadian MPs fight to protect doctors, patients against euthanasia

May 13, 2019

Canadian members of parliament are attempting to pass a law that would protect the conscience rights of doctors, as government leaders look to expand access to euthanasia in the country. Conservative MP David Anderson (Cypress Hills—Grasslands, Saskatchewan) introduced bill C-418 in October as a private member’s bill, seeking to protect medical practitioners unwilling to euthanize

Meet the evangelists saving souls in Wall Street

May 13, 2019

As I write this book blog I am reminded that May 13 is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. In one of her apparitions, Our Lady told the little shepherd children of Fatima that many people went to hell because they had no one to pray and make sacrifices for them. It is a

Confused about life? Listen to the Good Shepherd, Pope Francis advises

May 13, 2019

On Sunday, Pope Francis advised listening to and speaking with Christ the Good Shepherd in prayer, so that one can be guided on the right paths of life. “Listening to and recognizing [Jesus’] voice implies intimacy with him, which is consolidated in prayer, in the meeting heart to heart with the divine Master and Shepherd