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Members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops start a working session in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 18.
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Pope's study groups reflect evolving nature of synod process, theologians say

Vatican

 Pope Francis has now established 10 working groups to study some of the most controversial issues that have emerged in the Synod of Bishops. Theologians say it is difficult to assess what their impact might be.

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A sign is pictured in a file photo at a homeless encampment in Seattle. (OSV News/Reuters/David Ryder)

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The Francis Effect podcast: SCOTUS and homelessness; pop culture roundup; Sr. Elizabeth Johnson

Listen: Heidi, Father Daniel and David talk about media they've been consuming lately, as well as a recent Supreme Court case that might affect care for the homeless. Then Heidi interviews Sr. Elizabeth Johnson.

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Catholic students, theologians, ministers write an open letter to Pope Francis

"We love this church, we love our Catholic faith," but "personally, professionally and ministerially, we are concerned with Dignitas Infinita's statements on gender theory and sex change," they write.

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Pope Francis speaks to members of the Italian Catholic Action lay association gathered in St. Peter's Square during a meeting at the Vatican April 25, 2024. (CNS/Lola Gomez)
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Pope asks lay Catholics to prepare for synod's 'prophetic' stage

The most important outcome of the current Synod of Bishops on synodality is the synodal process itself and not the hot-button topics discussed, Pope Francis said.

ByJustin McLellan, Catholic News Service
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Catholic priest resigns from Michigan church following protests over his criticism of a gay author

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'It's a different time': Relations between US sisters, Vatican have changed radically

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Candace Owens converts to Catholicism

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With the red heifer ceremony, God purifies the people through the earth

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On Gaza, NY Catholic Worker community echoes Pope Francis: 'Please! Stop the war.'

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Pillar publishes hit piece on US bishops' anti-poverty group

NCR Voices
About 50 people protested April 15 outside the Kansas City National Security Campus, a plant run by Honeywell, calling for an end to nuclear weapons and criticizing a proposed expansion of the facility.

They arrested us. I hope it brings an end to nuclear weapons.

Guest Voices

About 50 people protested outside the Kansas City National Security Campus April 15, calling for an end to nuclear weapons and criticizing a proposed expansion there. Thomas C. Fox was one of 10 people arrested. 

Editorial: Finally, (some) US dioceses are taking the pope's climate message seriously

Editorial

Blakely's book on ideology bristles with insights

NCR Voices
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks at a news conference to present the dicastery's declaration Dignitas Infinita at the Vatican press office April 8. Priests from the dicastery's doctrinal section joined reporters for the presentation. (CNS/Pablo Esparza)

Vatican's own gender ideology makes 'Dignitas Infinita' incoherent

Guest Voices

Dignitas Infinita fails to treat women and transgender persons with the basic respect and consideration their dignity requires, writes theologian M. Therese Lysaught.

Vatican

Members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops start a working session in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 18.
Vatican News

Pope's study groups reflect evolving nature of synod process, theologians say

 Pope Francis has now established 10 working groups to study some of the most controversial issues that have emerged in the Synod of Bishops. Theologians say it is difficult to assess what their impact might be.

Pope Francis greets people as he rides the popemobile around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 25. Francis sent a brief letter to Drachma Parents April 30, responding to their criticism of a Vatican document that condemned gender theory and gender-affirming surgeries. Their original letter to Francis was dated April 23. (CNS/Lola Gomez)
Vatican News

Pope responds with 'open heart' to Vatican document criticism from parents of LGBTQ children

Pope Francis has written to a group of parents of LGBTQ persons, responding to their criticism of a Vatican document that condemned gender theory and gender-affirming surgeries. He told them he received their critique with an "open heart."

ByChristopher White
Group of priest sit around table, along with sister, smiling and talking.
Vatican News

Global group of pastors looks at parishes, synodality and mission

"Tradition comes alive in the art of creatively transmitting the messages entrusted to us. We must transmit them in new translations into a living, intelligible language," Father Tomáš Halík, a Czech theologian, told the priests. "To be faithful to tradition is not to be resistant to change."

ByCindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
Francis, the comic strip: Gabby reminds Francis and Brother Leo of the suffering in Africa.
Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: Gabby reminds Francis and Brother Leo of the suffering in Africa.

ByPat Marrin

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Bishop Seitz expresses 'grave concern' over scapegoating of migrants in 2024 election

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Vatican announces papal visit to Verona, Italy

Vatican News

Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale's must-see prison show

Roberta Zolkoski welcomes visitors to the Earth Day Community Resources Fair at St. Teresa of Kolkata parish, St. Catherine of Siena church, in Pittsburgh.
Faith

Pittsburgh parish creation care group hosts Earth Day fair

St. Teresa of Kolkata Parish houses the Diocese of Pittsburgh's only care for creation group. Its resources fair April 27 explored ways people can live more in line with Laudato Si'. 

A woman walks past couches in the Kamuchiri village of Mai Mahiu in central Kenya's Nakuru County April 29, 2024, after heavy flash floods wiped out several homes when a dam burst, following heavy rains. (OSV News photo/Thomas Mukoya, Reuters)
Faith

Kenyan archbishop appeals for humanitarian aid as floods devastate the country

Amid severe floods in Kenya, rescue operations were continuing April 29 as the death toll surpassed 120 people due to excessive rains and floods linked to the continuing El Nino phenomenon in East Africa. Archbishop Anthony Muheria of Nyeri appealed for humanitarian support to aid thousands of displaced people.

ByFredrick Nzwili, OSV News
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, is seen in this screen grab reading Pope Francis' speech for the inauguration of the Faith Pavilion at COP28, the U.N. Climate Change Conference, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 3.
Viewpoints

The Vatican should do more to influence UN climate action

Paris Agreement pledges alone won't reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Vatican can respond with an initiative based on the work of the Laudato Si' Action Platform and the competencies of Catholic universities. 

ByGriffin Thompson
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Viewpoints

Black Elk, White Buffalo Woman and the mystery of the red heifer ceremony

The red heifer ceremony flows out of our deepest human spiritual instincts. Rituals that combine land, power and wholeness, where mystery is greater than clarity. Lakota Catholic spirituality helps us to understand.

ByDamian Costello

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With the red heifer ceremony, God purifies the people through the earth

Justice

How clean water and faith go hand in hand

Justice

Brazil's bishops alarmed over growing number of land disputes under Lula's government

Culture

The Heeler family in the Disney+ show "Bluey" includes parents Bandit and Chilli, and daughters Bluey and Bingo.

What 'Bluey' teaches us about times of spiritual desolation

What St. Ignatius of Loyola insists — and what Bluey's father, Bandit Heeler displays — is that when in a state of spiritual desolation, making a rash decision is never the answer. 

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Book Reviews

'The Hero and the Whore' invites us to consider the lens we bring to the Bible

The Hero and the Whore: Reclaiming Healing and Liberation through the Stories of Sexual Exploitation in the Bible asks readers to shed the patriarchal lens through which most of us have read and studied the Bible.

ByNatalie Alfaro Frazier
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Why you might have heard Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ at Spanish Mass

‘The Sound of Silence’ version of the ‘Our Father’ has been widespread throughout Latin America and U.S. Latino communities for the last few decades.

ByAleja Hertzler-McCain, Religion News Service
Pope Francis prays during the Good Friday Liturgy of the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 29. (CNS/Vatican Media)
Book Reviews

New book takes readers 'On Retreat With Pope Francis'

Book review: In First Belong to God: On Retreat With Pope Francis, Austen Ivereigh offers a retreat based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and delivering a compelling summary of Pope Francis' theology.

ByMaryanne Hannan

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Regina King stands out in uneven biopic about political trailblazer Shirley Chisholm

Book Reviews

'Righting the American Dream' spotlights lingering damage of Reagan presidency

Book Reviews

Rabbi finds hope, comfort in new book by his friend, Pope Francis

From left: Sr. Jane Wakahiu, head of the Catholic Sisters Initiative at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation; Gail DeGeorge, editor of Global Sisters Report; Ursuline Sr. Michele Morek, GSR sister liaison; Benedictine Sr. Helga Leija, sister liaison for Spanis

10 years of a 'great adventure' at Global Sisters Report

I've been blessed to use my experience in the best job and most important mission I've ever had in my journalism career, writes Global Sisters Report editor Gail DeGeorge.

Sr. Teresa Anyabuike, a member of the African Faith and Justice Network, bottom middle, poses with students after a seminar about child abuse and human trafficking in Abuja, Nigeria. Sr. Eucharia Madueke writes that GSR has made the AFJN's Women Empowerment Project credible to the public and inspired sisters within and outside Africa. (CNS/Courtesy of Sr. Eucharia Madueke)

GSR amplifies voices and activities of African sisters beyond the continent

Global Sisters Report, with its global outreach and trusted reputation, has been a real gift to African sisters and to me, in my capacity as the coordinator of Africa Faith and Justice Network's Women Empowerment Project.

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Sr. Teresita Weind, tireless advocate for Black sisters, dies at 81

 Sr. Teresita Weind was a founding member of the National Black Sisters' Conference, served on its board and many committees, and represented the conference on the board of the National Office of Black Catholics.
 

ByDan Stockman
Magda Bennásar, second from the right, with members of the the Community of Magdala (Courtesy of Magda Bennásar)

My experience with Global Sisters Report

It was through Global Sisters Report and its columnists that I discovered an alternative path, for which I am deeply grateful.

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