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October 21, 2019

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński will be beatified on June 7, 2020 in Warsaw. The Archbishop of Canterbury has hailed St John Henry Newman as “a model of the purposeful disciple”. A mobster has claimed that he was part of “a team of hitmen who whacked John Paul I”. Jose Kavi reports on a “shocking” dispute over

Amazonian statues thrown into River Tiber

October 21, 2019

A video has been posted online showing a man taking so-called “Pachamama” statues from the church of Santa Maria in Transpontina in Rome and throwing them in the River Tiber. The YouTube video shows an unidentified man removing the statues from the church before placing them on the edge of the Ponte Sant’Angelo and pushing

On World Mission Day, Pope urges Catholics to share Christ’s love with all

October 21, 2019

Jesus Christ desires that all people know him and his love, and every Catholic has the mission of sharing this love with the world, Pope Francis said Sunday at Mass for World Mission Day. “Those who bear witness to Jesus go out to all, not just to their own acquaintances or their little group. Jesus

Letters from the Synod: October 21, 2019

October 21, 2019

The Synods of 2014 and 2015, called to examine the grave challenges posed to marriage and family life in the twenty-first century, became the occasion for significant voices in the Church to advance long-stalled projects (such as the admission to Holy Communion of those whose marriages had not been blessed by the Church) while concurrently