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Secrecy of Bloody Sunday slows healing, Irish prelate says
The president of the Irish bishops' conference used the 50th anniversary of the unlawful killing of 14 unarmed Catholics by the British army in Northern Ireland to criticize the fact that no one has ever been prosecuted.
Vietnamese priest stabbed to death while hearing confession
A Dominican priest serving ethnic groups in Vietnam's Central Highlands villages with few priests, was killed in a church Jan. 29. Local police said they arrested his killer, who is reported to be a drug abuser.
Pope to meet university students as part of synodal process
Highlighting a church that truly listens, Pope Francis will participate in a virtual meeting hosted Feb. 24 by Loyola University in Chicago with college students from North, Central and South America.
Pope: People must never forget or repeat horrors of Holocaust
As the world marks the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, Pope Francis urged an ongoing awareness of "this black page in history."
Ukraine deserves peace, Pope Francis says
On the day Pope Francis set as a day of prayer for peace in Ukraine Jan. 26, he hoped the prayers would "touch the minds and hearts of world leaders" and ease the threat that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict would spread.
God offers people help in life’s fears and difficulties, pope says
Pope Francis said his thoughts were with all those who "are crushed by the weight of life and can no longer hope or pray," especially parents accompanying their children through life, and urged them to turn in prayer to God.
Pope confers ministries of lector, catechist on lay women and men
In most countries, women and men have long served as lectors and catechists. But those formally installed in the ministries are recognized as having a specific vocation to leadership in their communities.
El Salvador welcomes four new martyrs, symbols of Vatican II church
The martyrs beatified -- including a teenage boy, priests and a sacristan -- were part of more than 75,000 civilians killed during the country's civil war in the 1970s and '80s that ended with peace accords in 1992.
In East European conflicts, Vatican plays vital diplomatic role
Thirty years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, its tremors reverberate from Kazakhstan to Belarus to the conflict at the Ukrainian-Russian border. The Catholic Church is involved in the region as a local actor, as a neutral mediator and as a peace-seeking faith.
Retired Pope Benedict corrects statement for Munich abuse report
Amending a written statement made to a panel investigating clerical sexual abuse in his former archdiocese, retired Pope Benedict XVI said he was present at a 1980 meeting to discuss the transfer of a priest accused of misconduct.