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2 days ago | 
cruxnow.com | Nirmala Carvalho |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima
MUMBAI, India – Cardinal Oswald Gracias says Pope Francis was “a person of deep faith, of prayer.”Gracias was the archbishop of Bombay until the pope accepted his retirement earlier this year. The cardinal spoke to Crux after learning about the death of Francis on Monday. “The Holy Spirit sends us the leader that we need at different times,” Gracias said.
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2 days ago | 
cruxnow.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Father Stan Chu Ilo is no stranger to the late Pope Francis. The Coordinating Servant of the Pan African Theology and Pastoral Network (PACTPAN) also worked closely with the Vatican, serving as the North American coordinator for ‘Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries of Life’—a synodal initiative launched by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. This project aimed to listen to and learn from Catholics living on the margins of society and the Church.
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6 days ago | 
cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Eduardo Lima
ROME – United States Vice President JD Vance attended a Passion liturgy at the Vatican Friday and plans to meet senior Vatican officials Saturday, amid tensions with Pope Francis and his top aides on multiple issues, including the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Vance, a Catholic convert, arrived in Italy Friday morning as part of an April 18-24 tour of Italy and India.
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6 days ago | 
cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Eduardo Lima
ROME – Pope Francis despite technically observing a two-month period of rest after a 38 day hospitalization ventured out twice Thursday, once to greet hospital staff who cared for him, and once to greet prisoners amid Holy Week. On Holy Thursday the pope, who usually visits a prison, or a center for migrants or the disabled, to celebrate Mass of the Lord’s Supper and wash the feet of inmates, paid a private visit to Rome’s Regina Coeli prison.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | Eduardo Lima |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – At least 3,500 acts of religious piety will have been forbidden by the Sandinista regime till the end of the 2025 Lent, lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, who monitors the persecution of the Catholic Church from exile in the United States, told Crux.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima
ROME – An Italian priest has been placed under house arrest on charges of aggravated sexual assault against a minor, while also facing at least five other charges of abuse in other communities said to date from 2011 to 2013. The arrest came after Father Ciro Panigara, 48, stepped down as the pastor of a small parish in the northern Italian province of Brescia earlier this year.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Eduardo Lima
ROME – With much of the world ravaged by global conflicts belonging to what Pope Francis has dubbed as a “third world war fought piecemeal,” an internation association dedicated to promoting peace and development is seeking the Vatican’s help.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Nirmala Carvalho |Eduardo Lima
ROME – In a conversation with the press earlier this week, Venezuelan Jesuit Father General Arturo Sosa confessed that his order had been “blind” to abuses committed by a famed artist who was expelled from the group nearly two years ago. The notorious case involving Slovene Father Marko Rupnik, accused of abusing over 30 adult women, “is not an easy case to speak about, because it caused a lot of pain, for the victims first of all,” Sosa told journalists during an April 10 press conference.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Nirmala Carvalho |Eduardo Lima
ROME – It’s been two months now since I announced that I would be taking a professional hiatus due to the aggressive cycles of chemotherapy and immunotherapy I’ve been undergoing to battle stomach cancer. This 60-day mark seems an apt moment for a quick update on how I’m doing. At the beginning, I’ll admit, things were rough. Without the tireless daily support of my wife, Elise Allen, I’m sure I probably would have imploded.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Nirmala Carvalho |Eduardo Lima
In his latest book, ‘The Truth Sets Us Free,’ (Debate, 2025), which was presented Thursday, April 10, in Peru and is already a best-seller in some Lima bookstores, the Peruvian journalist Pedro Salinas recounts, with the rhythm of a thriller, the story of a long struggle in different spheres to bring the truth about the abuses of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) to light, culminating in an unprecedented and historic event: The suppression of this society of apostolic life of pontifical...
