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Texas bishops urge state to not bar undocumented migrants from public schools
Posted on 03/30/2023 04:08 AM (CRUX)
Church defends Indigenous peoples: ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ was never Catholic
Posted on 03/30/2023 04:00 AM ()
A “Joint Statement” from the Dicastery for Culture and the Dicastery for Integral Human Development formally repudiates "those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political ‘doctrine of discovery’."
Cardinal Czerny: The Church rejects all words and actions that do not recognise human dignity
Posted on 03/30/2023 04:00 AM ()
The Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development comments on the Joint Statement on the "Doctrine of Discovery", published on 30 March 2023, highlighting the fact that it denotes the recognition of a historical attitude that continues to have effects today.
Facing respiratory infection, Pope to be hospitalized for a ‘few days’
Posted on 03/29/2023 14:50 PM (CRUX)
Pray for rain: Spanish farmers hold unique Mass amid drought
Posted on 03/29/2023 13:48 PM (CRUX)
Shattered: Catholic community confronts its founder’s lies
Posted on 03/29/2023 13:43 PM (CRUX)
UNICEF launches appeal to save the children in the Central Sahel
Posted on 03/29/2023 10:46 AM ()
A recently released UNICEF report reveals that ten million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, and that spiralling conflict is causing hostilities to spill over into neighbouring nations triggering a widening crisis with far-reaching consequences.
Pope Francis grateful for closeness and prayers as he undergoes medical check-ups
Posted on 03/29/2023 08:32 AM ()
On Wednesday afternoon, Pope Francis went to Rome's Gemelli hospital for some scheduled check-ups that have revealed a respiratory infection that requires a couple of days of treatment.
"7": Today's broken world cries out to the Lord on Good Friday
Posted on 03/29/2023 07:47 AM ()
Composer Marcello Filotei's work based on Haydn's "Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross", commissioned and realized by Vatican Radio, is presented in the run-up to its world radio premiere on Good Friday.
More humanitarian aid from Pope arrives in Ukraine
Posted on 03/29/2023 07:34 AM ()
A truckload of medicines, generators and other items that departed Italy on Saturday arrives this morning in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Volunteers prepared the shipment at Rome's Church of Santa Sophia together with help from the Office of Papal Charities.