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Pope Francis meets with representatives of the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican April 16.
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Pope Francis spent 50 minutes with a delegation from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious on April 16. The symbolic encounter came after the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the L.C.W.R. announced that they had reached a positive conclusion to a three-year effor
Bishop Oscar Cantú
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Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces, N.M., chair of the Committee on International Justice and Peace of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, urged Congress to give the “Lausanne framework,” concluded by U.S. and E.U. negotiators with Iran, a chance. His letter arrived on April 14 as U.
Yemenis receive food at a distribution center in Sana'a, Yemen earlier this year.
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The British charity Oxfam has appealed for an end to the fighting in Yemen and the opening of borders to allow entrance to desperately needed humanitarian aid. Nuha Al-Saeedi, an Oxfam program manager in Yemen, reports that conditions are getting worse each day as basic commodities run dangerously l
Robert McClory
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A new Kansas law banning an abortion procedure that results in dismemberment of an unborn child “has the power to transform the landscape of abortion policy in the United States,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, on April 8. • Two notable passings in Catholic
Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland, Anaheim, Calif. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
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Jim McDermott
Three lessons from Disneyland for the Catholic liturgy
FTERSHOCK. A memorial vigil in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 7 for the 148 or more people killed in an attack on Garissa University College.
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Faced with a fierce enemy driven by Islamic extremism, the Kenyan government has cracked down on funding for al-Shabab, the Somali group that claimed responsibility for killing at least 148 mostly Christian students at Garissa University College on April 2. The leader of the Catholic Church in Kenya