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September 15, 2019

Pope Francis: God forgets our sins after confession

September 15, 2019

Pope Francis said on Sunday that God forgets sins absolved within the confessional. “How do you defeat evil? Accepting God’s forgiveness … It happens every time we go to confession; there we receive the love of the Father who overcomes our sin. It is no longer there, God forgets it,” Pope Francis said in his

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/09/19

September 15, 2019

God “saves with love, not with force”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). It is “utopian or even insane” to see the Eastern Catholic Churches as an obstacle to ecumenism, Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said. The Pope may visit a death row inmate in Japan. Britain will return an image of

Bishops say reducing refugee numbers ‘wholly counter to our values’

September 15, 2019

As the Trump administration reportedly considers further cuts to U.S. refugee admissions, the leader of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee has stated his opposition to any such plan. Any “further reductions in the number of refugees” accepted into the U.S. “would be wholly counter to our values as a nation of immigrants,” Bishop Joe Vasquez