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Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
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As intersectinginternational interests collide, what is unfolding in Syria is a veritable "workshop of cruelty," Pope Francis told governing members of Caritas Internationalis on Nov. 17. • An outspoken priest in Veracruz, Mexico, who had been reported missing on Nov. 11, the Rev. José Luis Sánchez Ruiz was found aliveby Mexican police two days later, but with injuries consistent with torture. • The Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled on Nov. 17 in favor of the family of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, allowing the transfer of the remains of the candidate for sainthood from  St.

FaithSigns Of the Times
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The church is not a prop for one’s ego, a soapbox for ideas or a suit of armor protecting a sad life, Pope Francis said in an interview published in the Nov. 18 edition of Avvenire, an Italian Catholic newspaper. “The church exists only as an instrument for communicating God’s merciful plan to the people.” While most of the lengthy interview’s questions touched on ecumenism and the meaning of the Year of Mercy, the pope’s responses revealed his vision of the church and the “bad spirit” or psychological defects that foster division.

Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Wilmington, Ohio, Nov. 4. Trump won the presidency in the Nov. 8 elections. (CNS photo/Carlo Allegri, Reuters)
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Given that just days before the bishops met, the United States wrapped up a bizarre election season, there were some sparks in Baltimore about what to expect under President-elect Donald J. Trump.
New Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon, Myanmar, carries his scroll after receiving his red biretta from Pope Francis during a consistory at which the pope created 20 new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 14. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
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Yangon Cardinal Charles Bo said it was time to "reverse the trend" of a 60-year decline in Myanmar.
Pope Francis released an apostolic letter at the close of the Holy Year of Mercy
FaithSigns Of the Times
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In an apostolic letter released at the close of the Holy Year of Mercy, Pope Francis called on the Catholic Church worldwide "to promote a culture of mercy in which no one looks at another with indifference or turns away from the suffering of our brothers and sisters."
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago
FaithSigns Of the Times
Michael J. O’LoughlinJeremy Zipple
"The problem that we have today, not only in society but also in the church, is that we've become too polarized," Cardinal Kevin Farrell, an Irish-born prelate who was bishop of Dallas before taking over a Vatican department on family life earlier this year, told America.