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The Texas abortion law—banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy—continues to have the Supreme Court’s attention more than a month after the nation’s high court ruled against blocking the law.
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By CAROL ZIMMERMANN
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10/21/21
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will have an audience with Pope Francis Oct. 29, the day before the G20 Leaders’ Summit starts in Rome, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Oct. 14.
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By CAROL ZIMMERMANN
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10/21/21
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Thousands of pilgrims have flocked to the tomb of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the 15-year-old Italian teenager whose use of technology to spread devotion to the Eucharist prompted Pope Francis to hail him as a role model for young people today.
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By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES
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10/14/21
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The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration Oct. 11 praised a plan by President Joe Biden to raise the refugee cap to 125,000 for fiscal year 2022.
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By RHINA GUIDOS
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10/13/21
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Pope Francis has signed a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of Pope John Paul I, clearing the way for his beatification.
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By CAROL GLATZ
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10/13/21
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A synod calls on everyone to become experts in “the art of encounter” in a way that is uplifting and transformative, Pope Francis said, formally opening the process leading up to the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in 2023.
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By CAROL GLATZ
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10/12/21
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The Vatican Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life and the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network have a gift for families for the month of October, which is traditionally dedicated to the rosary.
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10/12/21
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Standing in front of Rome’s Colosseum, Pope Francis called on members of all the world’s religions to be courageous enough to set aside self-centeredness and instead live with true and active compassion for the victims of war and poverty and for the earth.
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By CINDY WOODEN
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10/8/21
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Pope Francis will not be going to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, as he had hoped.
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10/8/21
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Archbishop Christophe Pierre, nuncio to the United States, has urged Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson to respect “the humanity” of death-row inmate Ernest Lee Johnson and “the sacredness of all human life” and stop his Oct. 5 execution.
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10/4/21
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The Vatican announced that Pope Francis will formally launch the process of the Synod of Bishops with a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.
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By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES
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10/4/21
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s new term, starting Monday, Oct. 4, returns to its standard routine: hearing arguments in person and taking on hot-button issues.
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By CAROL ZIMMERMANN
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10/1/21
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As part of the Year of St. Joseph declared by Pope Francis, the U.S. Catholic Church’s annual Respect Life Month celebration in October “highlights the example of that great saint” as protector of life, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee.
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10/1/21
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Groups and individuals who have accepted Pope Francis’ invitation to step up their commitment to caring for creation are encouraged to prepare for their journey with a new prayer campaign.
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By CAROL GLATZ
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10/1/21
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A parish in a neighborhood that once had the highest concentration of Covid-19 cases in the country has found new joy in the discovery that a familiar painting over the transept doorway of its church is a 17th-century masterpiece.
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By BETH GRIFFIN
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10/1/21
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In the search for truth, Catholic communicators must learn how to listen above all else, the Vatican said.
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By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES
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9/29/21
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Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn and named Bishop Robert J. Brennan of Columbus, Ohio, to succeed him.
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9/29/21
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Bishop Robert J. Brennan of Columbus, Ohio, who served for many years as a priest and auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island, will return home to New York as the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn.
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9/29/21
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Hawaii bid aloha to Father Emil J. Kapaun, a U.S. Army Korean War chaplain and candidate for sainthood Sept. 23.
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By PATRICK DOWNES
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9/27/21
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Christians must be on guard and avoid the temptation of thinking themselves better than others, an attitude that risks turning the Church into a place of “separation and not communion,” Pope Francis said.
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By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES
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9/27/21
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