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Oct 27, 2024 | 
wherepeteris.com | Pedro Gabriel |Claire Domingues
Over the past months, there were concerns that the Synod would decentralize Catholic teaching authority to episcopal conferences, with many fearing that such a move could fragment the Church. Behind these concerns was the influence of the German Synodal Way, whose calls for “doctrinal developments” on topics like sexuality and the ordination of women stirred apprehension about doctrinal divergence.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
wherepeteris.com | Claire Domingues
At a Synod press conference held on October 14, the speakers emphasized the need for greater involvement of laypeople, including women, in the Church’s decision-making processes.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
thecityandtheworld.com | Claire Domingues
Claire is a Filipina global IT professional, residing in Portugal with her husband, Pedro Gabriel. She provides multimedia support, coverage and website maintenance. She wrote articles for Where Peter Is and Ignitum Today, and provided special news coverage for Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) News Media during Pope Francis´s 2015 papal visit in the Philippines. She was an accredited press corps member for the press coverage of World Youth Day Lisbon 2023.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
wherepeteris.com | Claire Domingues |Pedro Gabriel
In recent days, an alleged quote from Pope Francis saying that “divorce can be morally necessary” has gone viral on Philippine social media. On May 22, the House of Representatives of the Philippines approved House Bill 9349, known as the Absolute Divorce Act, which could lead to legalizing divorce in the Philippines.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
wherepeteris.com | Claire Domingues |Pedro Gabriel
Last week a controversy erupted about the way the Blessed Sacrament was stored during the Saturday night preceding Sunday’s papal mass at World Youth Day (WYD) Lisbon. Pictures circulating on social media showed plastic containers on top of tables inside a white tent, with some young people kneeling before them. According to reports of one of the young people present, those boxes contained the Blessed Sacrament.
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Aug 5, 2023 | 
wherepeteris.com | Pedro Gabriel |Claire Domingues
LISBON, August 5, 2023 — Pope Francis met yesterday with 17 other religious leaders at Portugal’s Apostolic Nunciature. “We know this is a goal of Pope Francis’ pontificate, this interreligious dialogue,” said Timóteo Cabral, President of the Evangelical Alliance of Portugal, “We all came out of that meeting with the feeling that we had an encounter, not an audience or a reception. It was an encounter.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
wherepeteris.com | Pedro Gabriel |Claire Domingues
In the meantime, the stand of the Esclavas de Cristo Rey had posters, saying “we help you discern,” and “we accompany you,” in bright colors. Sr. Aminta clarified the meaning of these posters:“We ask some questions to make them think, questions about values and about things that they can offer, and they don’t know what to answer. First, they must discover their personal knowledge, which they must uncover, little by little. We help them with that. We ask them to reflect: ‘What do I have to give?
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
wherepeteris.com | Claire Domingues |Pedro Gabriel
LISBON, August 2, 2023 — World Youth Day (WYD) is featuring a new model of catechesis: the Rise Up Encounters. During a press conference held yesterday, Fr. Nuno Amador, the Pastoral Director of WYD 2023, listed these Rise Up Encounters as one of the main novelties of this event compared with previous iterations.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
wherepeteris.com | Claire Domingues
LISBON, Portugal — On July 31, 2023, seven volunteers from all around the world were invited to a press conference, to give a brief testimony about WYD and its meaning for them. Micael De Almeida is a missionary and physiotherapist from Brazil. He belongs to a special team responsible for the health of bishops and people with disabilities. Micael attended the 2013 WYD in Rio de Janeiro where he received a calling for missionary life. “I left everything to follow God’s will.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
wherepeteris.com | Claire Domingues |Pedro Gabriel
On July 6, 2023, Bishop Américo Aguiar gave an interview to the secular public Portuguese channel, RTP Notícias. The full interview (in Portuguese) can be seen here. Catholic news sites have picked up on a particular section of that interview, which we translated and reproduced below.
