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Mexico’s Churches Become Places of Hope as the Search for the Missing Reaches 135,000

That is why the Mexican Church's intervention has increasingly focused not only on prayer, but also on presence

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Pope Leo XIV personally ordered his Dicastery for Communication to stop using works by the former Jesuit Rupnik, according to the bishop of Lourdes

The Vatican quietly removed the images in June, a decision that initially came without an official explanation. Micas's account now provides an explanation for that change and portrays Leo as having taken a deliberate position on an issue that had become increasingly difficult for the Church to treat simply as a question of artistic preference

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World War II Veteran Baptized Shortly Before Turning 100

Treviño discovered that Martin held a deep faith in Christ and the Eucharist: "He expressed a genuine faith in Christ and the teachings of the Catholic Church. He believes in the Eucharist and the importance of Baptism and Confirmation. He said that, although he was not Catholic, he always recited the Act of Contrition."

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Questions about liturgy: Communion at Weddings Outside of a Mass

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.

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The Quieting of America: Why So Many Americans No Longer Feel Free to Speak Their Minds

Taken together, the numbers point toward a phenomenon more difficult to measure than political polarization itself: self-censorship

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Meta’s $16.7 Billion Reckoning: Why the Fight Over Social Media Addiction Is Really a Battle for Children

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has agreed to pay $16.7 billion in a settlement with state attorneys general pursuing claims that its platforms contributed to addictive patterns among minors

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Arrest Made in Arson of Historic Canadian Church

Firefighters received a call at 3:30 a.m. regarding a fire alarm activation in the community of Saint-Simon. "Sometimes we get false alarms, but I had a bad feeling," Caraquet Fire Chief Luc Dugas told Radio-Canada. "I told myself we’d never had issues with this alarm before."

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2 out of 10 U.S. bishops are willing to ordain gay priests, according to a study

Twenty-two percent of surveyed U.S. bishops said they would be willing to ordain such a man; 10% said they were completely in agreement with doing so

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Puberty blockers do not improve the mental health of children and young adults with gender dysphoria, according to a study

If the principal justification for early medical intervention is that it substantially improves mental health, the available findings in this study do not provide a dramatic confirmation of that proposition

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