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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Greg Erlandson |Pablo Kay |Ad rem
In the classic western, “Shane,” the hero tells the boy who idolizes him that the gun he carries on his hip is like any other tool. It’s as good or bad as the man who uses it. I feel the same about the 21st century’s version of a sidearm, otherwise known as artificial intelligence. The question yet to be answered is whether the good of AI will outweigh the bad. AI is already part of everyday life.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Greg Erlandson |Robert Brennan |Pablo Kay
Providence can be unpredictable, if not downright surprising. It unfolds at the most unexpected moments. This summer, for me it occurred halfway around the world. I have worked in Catholic journalism and publishing for four decades, but it took a trip to Singapore for me to hear a homily celebrating World Day of Social Communications and to stand up and receive a blessing for my chosen career.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Pablo Kay |Kate Scanlon |Simon Caldwell |Justin Mclellan
Organizers have changed plans for the conclusion of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, June 22, in light of recent immigration-related protests and police activity in the area. A Eucharistic procession through the streets of downtown Los Angeles had originally been planned following the pilgrimage’s 3 p.m. closing Mass inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Gina Christian |Pablo Kay
Close to half of the nation's adults have a personal or family connection to Catholicism, but Mass attendance makes for significant differences in what Catholics say is essential to their identity.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Junno Arocho Esteves |Pablo Kay |Ronald Rolheiser
Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness to victims' families after an Air India flight headed to London Gatwick airport crashed shortly after takeoff in the western city of Ahmedabad.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Pablo Kay |Ronald Rolheiser |Kimmy Chacon
Archbishop José H. Gomez led prayers for those “hurting” in the wake of ongoing federal immigration sweeps and clashes between protestors and law enforcement in Los Angeles and other cities at a special Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Robert Brennan |Pablo Kay
During a meeting with Eastern Catholics, many of whom come from war-torn regions of the world, Pope Leo XIV pledged the Vatican's full commitment to promoting peace and reconciliation. "The peoples of our world desire peace, and to their leaders I appeal with all my heart: Let us meet, let us talk, let us negotiate!" the pope said May 14 during an audience in the Paul VI Hall with thousands of Eastern Catholics participating in their Jubilee pilgrimage to Rome.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Pablo Kay |Paulina Guzik |Ad rem
I am now on my eighth pope. The good news is, I am still younger than the pope. In 1978, we were all excited to have a Polish pope and a man who was a mere youth at 58.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Paulina Guzik |Pablo Kay |Justin Mclellan |Scott Hahn
On May 8, Father Thomas Joseph White, the American rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, was at St. Peter's Square with hundreds of thousands of people when white smoke rose out of the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel. When, shortly after 7 p.m., the name of the new pope was announced to the world from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, "I was stunned," Father White said.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Pablo Kay |Justin Mclellan |Scott Hahn
President Donald Trump signed an executive order May 12 that he said would lower prescription drug costs -- an issue the U.S. bishops have flagged in recent years -- but the exact potential impact of the order was the subject of debate. Trump signed an executive order to implement what is known as the "most favored nation" policy, which he said would tie the prices of some drugs in the U.S. to lower prices abroad, such as in Europe.
