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2 months ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |James V. Schall
Denver Newsroom, May 28, 2020 / 03:00 am (CNA).- All of Florida’s death row inmates live in the Diocese of St. Augustine. Many are Catholic. At least twice a year St. Augustine’s Bishop Felipe Estevez goes to visit death row inmates himself. So when Estevez issued a pastoral letter this week chronicling the efforts of Catholics in Florida to end the death penalty, and laying out the Catholic case for its abolition, the issue was personal.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Kate Quinones |James V. Schall
Colorado’s bishops on immigration: ‘An open border is not a just system’ By Kate Quiñones for CNA The U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona. (Credit: Chess Ocampo/Shutterstock)Denver, Colo., Jan 24, 2025 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Following President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration, Colorado’s Catholic bishops on Friday encouraged the U.S. to balance justice and mercy in its regulation of immigration to the country.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Victoria Isabel Cardiel |James V. Schall
Vatican issues guide on richness of Eastern Catholic Churches By Victoria Cardiel for CNA The Melkite Greek Basilica of St. Paul in Harissa, Lebanon. / Credit: Kevin Jones/CNAVatican City, Jan 24, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Dicastery for the Eastern Churches has prepared a pastoral guide for the 2025 Jubilee of the Eastern Churches, to be celebrated May 12–14, in order to make known the richness of the Christian traditions of the Eastern world.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Madalaine Elhabbal |James V. Schall
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 26, 2020 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- As Lebanon continues to deal with fallout from the massive August explosion that devastated parts of the capital, Beirut, advocates for Lebanese Christians call for continued U.S. aid and collaboration with local NGOs, while one State Department official says that conversations about additional aid have stalled. On Oct.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |James V. Schall
Rome, Italy, Jan 7, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Franciscan Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini is very comfortable with public speaking — it’s basically his job as a Scripture expert called on to give talks and lead retreats around Italy. Yet, just late last year, he began a new adventure, one he finds a bit more intimidating: preaching to Vatican employees, cardinals, and the pope during Lent and Advent. On Nov.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | James V. Schall
Editor’s note: This essay, originally posted on December 24, 2017, was the final Christmas essay that Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. penned for CWR; he died on April 17, 2018 at the age of 91. The Nativity of the Lord follows the Incarnation of the same Lord. The latter, in its turn, recalls the announcement nine months previously to Mary, if she accepted it, that a Son was to be born of her. She would call Him Emmanuel, “God with us”.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Walter Sánchez Silva |James V. Schall
Nicaraguan dictatorship kidnaps and expels another priest By Walter Sánchez Silva for CNA The Nicaraguan dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his “co-president” and wife, Rosario Murillo, kidnapped and expelled from the country a priest of the Diocese of Bluefields. / Credit: PixabayACI Prensa Staff, Dec 5, 2024 / 14:40 pm (CNA).
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Abel Camasca |James V. Schall
Elias Elsayah at Chris and Sam’s Barber Shop in Norwood, Massachusetts / Joe Bukuras/CNAWashington D.C., May 19, 2021 / 10:31 am (CNA). Six days a week on busy Washington Street in Norwood, Massachusetts, Catholic barber Elias Elsayah can be found clipping hair and changing lives. Now a barber for eight years, Elsayah converts the hearts of many with his own miraculous conversion story.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |James V. Schall
Illinois diocese halts St. Jude relic tour amid ‘incident’ involving priest, students By Daniel Payne for CNA A candle of St. Jude. (Credit: Francesca Pollio/CNA)CNA Staff, Nov 24, 2024 / 15:25 pm (CNA). A bishop in Illinois has halted in his diocese a traveling tour of a relic of St. Jude following an “incident” that allegedly took place between a visiting priest and several students.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |James V. Schall
Vatican Christmas tree wreathed in controversy over environmental objections By Hannah Brockhaus for CNA Despite an online petition posted to change.org in mid-October that garnered over 53,000 signatures in protest of the evergreen to be used for the Vatican Christmas tree being chopped down, the tree arrived as scheduled in St. Peter’s Square at 7 a.m. on Nov. 21, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAVatican City, Nov 21, 2024 / 12:30 pm (CNA).
