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Gerard O’Connell is America’s Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Catholic mother of five.
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The pope urged people "to listen, to be a neighbor, to bear witness.”
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“May the Most High receive the dead in his peace, comfort their families and sustain the wounded,” he prayed as he addressed thousands of pilgrims from many countries gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Oct. 28.
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The text is intended as a guideline to be adapted at the national and local level in different countries.
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His statement appeared to be a reference to those seeking to divide the church today and those using the abuse scandals to further other agendas.
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The cardinals and bishops who participated in the synod may have “a little more wisdom,” but the young people “have the enthusiasm and the creativity to help us bring Jesus Christ to the world.”
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There is “a wonderful spirit” at the synod and Cardinal Nichols thinks this is due to the fact that “we’ve gone from talking about young people and from talking to young people, to talking with them. In a strange sort of way it’s become what Pope Francis means by synodality.”
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“Jesus finds people where they are, but he never leaves them where they are.”
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In this third letter Archbishop Viganò no longer insists that the restrictions that he claimed Benedict XVI had imposed on Archbishop McCarrick can be understood as “sanctions.”
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The pope said he would visit North Korea “if an official invitation arrives.”