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Young people talk during a conference in Rome April 6. The conference was in preparation for next year's Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment and World Youth Day in 2019. (CNS photo/courtesy Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Cardinal Farrell: Time to implement Vatican II’s teaching on the laity
Gerard O’Connell
As head of a new Vatican department, Cardinal Farrell is in a position to bring lay people into positions of leadership in the church.
Reformed, Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist leaders look on in St. Mary's City Church in Wittenberg, Germany, as the Rev. Chris Ferguson, World Communion of Reformed Churches general secretary, signs the declaration expressing Reformed churches' support for the Catholic-Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. Photo courtesy of WCRC/Anna Siggelkow
FaithNews
Reformed churches endorse Catholic-Lutheran accord on key Reformation dispute
Tom Heneghan - Religion News Service
The World Communion of Reformed Churches signed a declaration this week endorsing the 1999 Catholic-Lutheran agreement on how Christians might be worthy of salvation in the eyes of God.
Pope Francis is accompanied by Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan as he greets the crowd outside the cathedral in Milan March 25. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Pope Francis accepts Scola’s resignation, appoints native son Delpini to Milan
Gerard O’Connell
Those who know Bishop Delpini well describe him as “a very spiritual man, humble but not submissive, a great worker, far from the profile of a manager-bishop, very attentive to the personal relationship with priests.”
Politics & SocietyShort Take
What some pro-lifers have overlooked in the case of Charlie Gard
Michael Redinger
The proper application of Catholic moral reasoning could be seen to ultimately support the E.C.H.R.’s final decision to withdraw life support.
Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne, Germany, is seen in this 2005 file photo. The 83-year-old cardinal died unexpectedly in his sleep July 5 while on vacation in southern Germany. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
FaithNews
Pope praises late-Cardinal Meisner's faithful, fearless dedication
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The 83-year-old cardinal died unexpectedly in his sleep July 5 while on vacation in southern Germany.
Pope Francis blesses a sick child in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Dec. 15, 2016, during a meeting with patients and workers of Rome's Bambino Gesu children's hospital. Responding to an Associated Press investigation, a top Vatican official said there had been past problems at the hospital, but that the current administration was making a "serious effort to resolve them." (CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Vatican official says problems at Bambino Gesu hospital are being resolved
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Cardinal Pietro Parolin said some of the problems identified by current and former Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital staff in 2014 were "truly unfounded." But for problems that were verified, there is a "serious effort to resolve them."
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