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September 23, 2019

Attacks on religious communities ‘a wound on all humanity’ Trump tells UN

September 23, 2019

President Donald Trump joined world leaders to speak out against religious persecution at a Global Call to Protect Religious Freedom at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday. “Today, with one clear voice, the United States of America calls upon the nations of the world to end religious persecution,” President Trump said. “Stop the

After Cardinal Marx visits Vatican, Germany’s ‘synodal way’ up for bishops’ vote

September 23, 2019

The German bishops are set this week to vote upon statutes for a “binding synodal process,” days after Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the German bishops’ conference, held talks about the plans with Pope Francis and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. On Monday, the German bishops began a three-day plenary session

‘Be a voice of conscience,’ Pope tells Catholic press

September 23, 2019

Pope Francis told an association of Italian Catholic news agencies Monday to stay close to the Magisterium and to use their work to distinguish what is good from what is evil. “To renew your harmony with the magisterium of the Church, I urge you to be a voice of conscience, of a journalism capable of

Morning Catholic must-reads: 24/09/19

September 23, 2019

Cardinal Robert Sarah has hailed Christian parents as the “hidden heroes of our time”. Changes to France’s bioethics laws risk “pointing the way to a liberal eugenics”, Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort has said. The “culture of the adjective has entered the Church”, Pope Francis has told members of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication. Patriarch Bartholomew

Vatican releases full list of participants for Amazon synod

September 23, 2019

Pope Francis has named Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston and the other members of his international Council of Cardinals to be voting members of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon. Releasing the list of synod participants on September 21, the Vatican also noted that the pope had nominated as synod members Bishop Robert

Nigerian bishops criticise attacks from ‘higher levels of the Church’ against Pope

September 23, 2019

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria has condemned recent verbal attacks on Pope Francis as well as xenophobic attacks by South Africans on foreigners. They condemned both attacks in a statement issued on September 20 at the end of their second plenary meeting at Divine Mercy Pastoral Center in Abeokuta. The bishops expressed their communion