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Pope: Playing nurse all night, working all day, families are heroic
As part of a series of talks about the family and problems they face, the pope looked at illness -- a sign of the human frailty that spans from infancy to old age "when those aches and pains start coming," he said.
Antillean bishops offer action steps to address climate change
Bishops from across the Caribbean region invited people to read and study Pope Francis' upcoming encyclical on the environment so that they "become better stewards of creation."
Hope rises that papal encyclical will address vitality of water sources
As floodwaters rose with heavy rains in this Amazonian city, Graciela Tejada and her neighbors found greasy slaughterhouse offal, human feces and used hypodermic needles floating practically to their doorsteps.
Pope’s encyclical to have medieval Italian, not Latin, title
In its first official comment on the title, the Vatican press office said June 10 that the document will be called, "Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home." Earlier, reporters used the modern "sii" for the phrase which translates "praised be."
German church official says plan for electing bishops follows tradition
The election of Bishop Heiner Koch of Dresden-Meissen, Germany, as archbishop of Berlin follows tradition and stems from good church-state relations, said a church official.
Pakistani church office calls for mercy as Christian faces execution
"Bahadur was sentenced to death for a murder that took place in September 1992. He has now spent 23 years on death row," the letter stated. "Alarmingly, there is strong evidence to suggest that Bahadur is innocent."
Sisters ‘fine’ after weekend trapped in elevator with no food, water
The 58-year-old Irish religious and the 68-year-old religious from New Zealand "are fine, but are not speaking to the press," a receptionist at the Marist Sisters residence in Rome told Catholic News Service June 9.
Denying religion public voice opposes freedom, Vatican official says
By failing to listen to the concepts and challenges offered by world religions in important discussions together with secularist perspectives, a pluralistic society "will never be authentic pluralism, and will instead risk falling into a uniform single-mindedness, the enemy of freedom," he said.
Climate encyclical expected to send strong moral message to the world
"The encyclical will address the issue of inequality in the distribution of resources and topics such as the wasting of food and the irresponsible exploitation of nature and the consequences for people's life and health," Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, told Catholic News Service.
Young men know where they are going: On vocations retreat
Quo vadis -- a Latin term meaning "where are you going?" -- is also the name of a retreat in July helping teens discern God's call in their lives, possibly to the priesthood.