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“Reforming the Catholic Church Today: Three Perspectives” (Bilgrimage)

May 15, 2013
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“Reforming the Catholic Church Today: Three Perspectives” (Bilgrimage)

At Bilgrimage, Bill Lindsey summarizes three different reflections from around the web on hopes and paths to Church reform, from three very different perspectives, from three national traditions: Three different viewpoints, each coming from a different position in the church, with different prescriptions for the type of reform so critically needed in the Catholic church…

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A “Breakaway” Congregation – or One Thrown Away?

May 14, 2013
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A “Breakaway” Congregation – or One Thrown Away?

Talks continue between Bishop Richard Lennon of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland and representatives of the Community of St. Peter, a congregation that left the diocese after the bishop closed their church. The two sides met earlier this month to discuss the community’s secession and…

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Pope: “Church must build bridges and not walls, must listen to everyone”

May 9, 2013
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Pope: “Church must build bridges and not walls, must listen to everyone”

The Christian and the Church must be “builders of bridges and not walls,” be aware that evangelization is not to proselytizing, but it is “attracting” people to Jesus with our lives and witness. It is, ultimately, to do as Jesus did, who “spoke with everyone”…

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German Archbishop Calls for Major Church Reforms.

April 30, 2013
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German Archbishop Calls for Major Church Reforms.

Germany’s top Roman Catholic has called for women to be allowed to become deacons, which would enable them to perform baptisms and marriages outside of mass – a novelty for…

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.Pope Francis Names New Bishop for Imus (Philipines).

April 8, 2013
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.Pope Francis Names New Bishop for Imus (Philipines).

Pope Francis has appointed a Batangueño as the new bishop of the Diocese of Imus in Cavite, according to an article on the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP)…

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Pope Francis Makes First Curia Appointment

April 8, 2013
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Pope Francis Makes First Curia Appointment

Pope Francis on yesterday named a Spanish Franciscan to be the No. 2 at the Vatican’s office for religious orders, his first appointment to the Vatican bureaucracy badly in need…

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