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Fewer Catholics Of All Ages Are Attending Mass, Gallup Study Finds
(HuffPost) - Weekly church attendance by American Catholics continues its decades-long decline, a new Gallup report shows. About 39 percent of Catholics reported attending church in any given week, according to data collected between 2014 and...
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Pope urges church unity, blames divisions on work of devil
(AP) — Pope Francis called Tuesday for unity in the Catholic Church and blamed its divisions on the devil. It was the second time in as many days that Francis has warned about the destructive work of the devil after making headlines recently by...
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Fighting social injustice as important as fighting abortion: pope
(Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Monday that Catholics should not give "excessive importance" to certain Church rules while disregarding others, urging opponents of abortion to show equal passion for the lives of the poor and oppressed. The pope...
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Female made Priest in charge of three Saint Lucia churches
The first ever female Priest to have been appointed in the Anglican Diocese of the Windward Islands (St. Vincent, Grenada and Saint Lucia), will installed as Priest in Charge of three churches here. The churches are: Grace Anglican Church in...
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Vatican: Pope did not say there is no hell
BBC:- The Vatican has denied that Pope Francis told a well-known Italian journalist that "there is no hell". The quote came in an article in Italy's La Repubblica daily. But the Vatican said "no quotations" in the article "should be considered...
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Pope on Holy Thursday urges priests to be close to sinners
(AP) — Pope Francis on Thursday urged priests to be spiritually close to their flocks and not insist only on preaching laws when they sin. Francis issued the guidance during Holy Thursday Mass, which is meant to show the unity of the Catholic...
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Report: Key unofficial bishop in Vatican-China deal detained
(AP) — A bishop in China's underground Catholic Church has reportedly been detained, just as the Vatican has been laying the groundwork for him to step aside as part of a long-sought deal with Beijing over bishop nominations. The AsiaNews agency,...
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Greek bishop to be retried under homophobia law
(AFP) - A Greek bishop will be retried after being controversially acquitted on charges of inciting violence against homosexuals, a judicial source said Tuesday. Bishop Amvrosios, whose name is Athanassios Lenis, labelled gay people the "dregs of...
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