Tradition of lighting candles/Better to go to church or be kind?

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Thursday, September 20, 2018
Father Kenneth Doyle's Question Corner
Q. I have always been against the death penalty -- since the prisoner is behind bars and removed from doing further harm to the public. But a recent piece in The Wall Street Journal included statements by criminals who said that they were not as aggressive with victims when they knew there was a de...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
Archbishop Chaput to pope: Cancel youth synod, meet about bishops
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) – Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is asking Pope Francis to call off the Synod of Bishops on young people this October to focus instead on the life of the bishops. "I have written the Holy Father a...
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Thursday, September 06, 2018
Pope says he trusts people to judge archbishop's claims about him

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Thursday, August 30, 2018
Former U.S. nuncio alleges broad cover-up
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A former apostolic nuncio to the United States has accused church officials, including Pope Francis, of failing to act on accusations of abuse of conscience and power by now-Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick. ...
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Thursday, August 30, 2018
USCCB president seeks papal audience, answers to former nuncio's questions
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said he is "eager for an audience" with Pope Francis to gain his support for the bishops' plan to respond to the clergy sexual abuse crisis. In an Aug. 27...
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Thursday, August 30, 2018
'Put not your trust in princes'

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Thursday, August 23, 2018
Pope Francis issues letter to the people of God

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Thursday, August 23, 2018
The legacy of 'Humanae Vitae' at 50 years
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" 50 years on, is how reports of its imminent death were continually exaggerated. Very few brave souls would have predicted in 1968 that the document would ever enjoy enthusiastic support from more than a few female Catholic intel...
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Thursday, August 23, 2018
Pope: God's name is revealed through authentic faith, not hypocrisy

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018