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Cupich: ‘Never forget’ policies that led to Holocaust began with words
The "calculated stages" the Nazis carried out that ultimately resulted in the Holocaust began with bigoted language against minorities that the majority soon came to accept as credible, said Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago.
Christians, Muslims pray at ruins of Philippine town’s church, mosques
Christians and Muslims prayed in the ruins of a church and a mosque in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, which was devastated by a five-month siege in 2017.
Philippine bishop appeals for help for hundreds of earthquake victims
UPDATED - The earthquakes, of magnitudes 5.4 and 6.4, killed at least eight people, injured 63. One person was reported missing.
Pope calls for quick action to prevent further migrant deaths
Days after rescue workers recovered the bodies of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, Pope Francis urged the international community to "act quickly" to prevent future tragedies.
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Vatican: Bones found at cemetery do not belong to missing woman
The Vatican press office said that the results of a morphological analysis of bones and bone fragments found at an ossuary in a Vatican cemetery concluded that none belonged to Emanuela Orlandi, a young Italian woman who has been missing for more than 30 years.
Rome police chaplain recalls slain officer’s life of service
The murder of 35-year-old officer Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome's Prati district July 26 and the subsequent arrest of two young American men -- Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18 -- sent shockwaves around the country.
Carlson: Release of abuse allegations ‘painful,’ but ‘right thing to do’
As the Archdiocese of St. Louis released a list of names of archdiocesan clergy with substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of a minor July 26, Archbishop Robert J. Carlson acknowledged that seeing the names "will be painful" and publishing them "will not change the past."
U.S. bishops, others, remember Cuba’s Cardinal Ortega
Cardinal Jaime L. Ortega "was an important, and at the same time, controversial man of the church, who played a critical role in gaining 'more spaces' so that the Catholic Church in Cuba could exercise her mission of evangelization within a Marxist nation.
Late bioethicist Daniel Callahan ‘never ceased questioning,’ says Jesuit
Daniel Callahan, who died July 16, just shy of his 89th birthday, co-founded the renowned Hastings Center, the world's first bioethics research institute, with Willard Gaylin in 1969.