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Catholic lawyer Joseph Donnelly, pictured in a Jan. 3, 2013, photo, is U.S. President Joe Biden's nominee to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Donnelly, from Indiana, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 to 2013 and a U.S. senator from 2013 to 2019. The White House announced Biden's nomination of Donnelly Oct. 8, 2021. (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, Reuters)
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Catholic News Service
Joseph Donnelly, 66, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013 and was a U.S. senator from 2013 to 2019.
Pope Francis waves as he walks during his general audience on Sep. 29.
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Catholic News Service
Pope Francis will not be going to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, as he had hoped.
Bishop Robert Barron, in a red chasuble, stands at the pulpit at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.
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Peter Finney Jr. - Catholic News Service
In his homily for a Red Mass in New Orleans, Bishop Robert Barron emphasized the need for religion in an otherwise secular society.
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Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis said he intends to declare as a doctor of the church St. Irenaeus of Lyon, the second-century theologian known for his defense of orthodoxy amid the rise of gnostic sects.
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Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
A Vatican tribunal absolved a former altar boy of charges that he molested a younger boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary, ruling Wednesday in the first clergy sexual abuse trial to be heard by the pope’s criminal court.
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Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The Catholic Church’s inability to make victims of abuse their top concern is a cause for intense shame, Pope Francis said.