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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Russell Shaw |Jenna Cooper
The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, is preventing priests from entering hospitals in Nicaragua to administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick to those who need it, according to lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, author of the report "Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?" Approximately 10 priests from different dioceses have confirmed the situation to Molina, who nevertheless noted -- in an interview with the Spanish edition of EWTN News --...
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Michael R. Heinlein |Russell Shaw |Jenna Cooper
BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrapped up its fall plenary assembly's final public session Nov. 13, in which the bishops discussed topics ranging from the recent election, to synodality, to care for the environment, to life issues, including abortion and immigration. Archbishop Timothy P.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Jonathan Luxmoore |Russell Shaw |Jenna Cooper
LONDON (OSV News) -- Leading British Catholics have urged their church to avoid involvement in the resignation of the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, who quit Nov. 12 after being implicated in a large-scale abuse cover-up. "This drama won't make a vast difference to the many people who already view Christianity negatively -- they'll merely see it as confirming what they already thought," said Timothy Guile, chairman of the English Catholic History Association.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Andrew Nelson |Russell Shaw
NORCROSS, Ga. (OSV News) -- Traffic came to a standstill along Beaver Ruin Road in the northeast metro area of Atlanta Oct. 25 as Catholics, representing several parishes and speaking multiple languages, followed on foot the Blessed Sacrament as a sign of devotion.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Marietha Góngora V |Russell Shaw
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As Hispanic Heritage Month drew to a close, dozens of leaders of Catholic organizations and Hispanic pastoral leaders gathered at the apostolic nunciature of the Holy See in Washington, brought together by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church of and its Subcommittee on Hispanic Affairs.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Maria Wiering |Russell Shaw
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(OSV News) -- The goal of the second and final meeting of the Synod on Synodality underway at the Vatican is understanding and exercising synodality in the church, rather than immediately resolving specific issues, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' synodality expert said.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Russell Shaw
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MISSION HILL -- Maryanne Norton didn't realize that she was at the end of an era. She was just a girl in high school having fun with her friends. Norton, 81, was the last actress to portray the title character in "Pilate's Daughter," a stage play that was a rite of passage for generations of women and girls who worshiped and attended school at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Mission Hill.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | John Mulderig |Russell Shaw
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NEW YORK (OSV News) Fans of the 2017 film "Wonder" may recognize the character of Julian Abans (Bryce Gheisar), a student on whose adjustment to a new school the opening scenes of the touching wartime drama "White Bird" (Lionsgate) focus. Julian was the bully who persecuted the facially deformed but heroic-hearted protagonist of the earlier movie.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Carol Glatz |Russell Shaw |Jenna Cooper
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LUXEMBOURG (CNS) -- Animated by a spirit of service, mission and joy, the Catholic Church must be welcoming toward everyone, Pope Francis said. "The spirit of the Gospel is a spirit of welcoming, of openness to everyone; it does not admit any kind of exclusion," the pope told members of Luxembourg's Catholic community during an afternoon meeting in the city's Cathedral of Notre-Dame Sept. 26.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Kate Scanlon |Russell Shaw |Jenna Cooper
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(OSV News) -- A federal judge in North Dakota sided with the Catholic Benefits Association in its lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over two regulations the group says violate Catholics' religious beliefs.
