The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) recently voted nearly unanimously to request that Mother Teresa’s feast day be added to the General Roman Calendar as an optional memorial. It is now going to the Vatican for further approval. The Feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta, better known in …
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Pope Francis allegedly confirmed with a papal biographer his decision to take punitive measures against U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke. Biographer Austen Ivereigh claimed in an article for the Catholic blog “Where Peter Is” to have spoken with Pope Francis about the situation at his residence in the Vatican. Francis allegedly …
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As director of the world’s largest Catholic organization focused on the abortion issue (Priests for Life), and of the world’s largest ministry for healing after abortion (Rachel’s Vineyard), I’ve received a lot of inquiries about the letter Pope Francis issued on September 1 expanding the authority of priests to absolve …
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The Vatican’s top diplomat on Monday condemned both Hamas’ “inhuman and indefensible” Oct. 7 attacks and Israel’s “ongoing massacre” in Gaza, warning that even legitimate self-defense cannot justify the destruction of a “largely defenseless population.” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state and one of Pope Leo XIV’s advisers, …
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