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Canadian Jesuit, indigenous paddlers form bonds to ‘last a lifetime’
The group of about 50 paddlers completed a 26-day odyssey along a historic river-route traveled four centuries ago by explorers and Jesuit martyrs, including St. Jean de Brebeuf. They arrived Aug. 15 at a First Nations reserve near Montreal.
Venezuelans who take long ride to Chile find help at Santiago parish
Around 20,000 Venezuelans have arrived in Chile this year, 15 times more than 2016. The vast majority of them say they are fleeing the political crisis in their country and going to Chile in search of a better life.
Rome Caritas blames police for violent removal of refugees
While government officials had an obligation to find a safe and dignified alternative for housing some 800 refugees squatting in an abandoned building in the center of Rome, the way police went about it led to violence, said Rome's Caritas agency.
Imprisonment without hope for the future is torture, pope says
Punishment can be fruitful only when inmates are helped to look toward the future rather than only back at a past lived out in shame, the pope said in a video message Aug. 24 to inmates at the Ezeiza federal penitentiary in Argentina.
Vatican II liturgical reform ‘irreversible,’ pope says
The Catholic Church must continue to work to understand the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and why they were made, rather than rethinking them, Pope Francis said.
The NAC diaries: U.S. seminary in Rome revives ‘house chronicler’ job
The Pontifical North American College has an important story to tell, and it is not one any official records will reveal: the tale of what daily life is really like at the U.S. seminary in Rome.
Central African priests use Facebook to express outrage, appeal for help
One priest accused U.N. peacekeepers of "deliberately abandoning" his town and leaving parishioners to be murdered by rebels.
Pope: God gives hope for the future despite present-day suffering
While the world reels from terrorism, natural disasters and division, God weeps with those who suffer and offers the hope of a future full of joy and consolation, Pope Francis said.
In Lebanon, Carmelite nun organizes Christians, Muslims to feed soldiers
As the Lebanese army wages an offensive against an Islamic State enclave near the border of Syria, Lebanese civilians -- Christian and Muslim -- are working side by side, not far from the frontlines, to feed some 5,000 soldiers.
Polish archbishop thinks Vatican will recognize Medjugorje apparitions
"The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has passed all documentation to the Secretariat of State -- everything suggests the apparitions will be accepted before the year ends," said Archbishop Henryk Hoser.