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Archbishop Sample elected to USCCB executive committee (Pillar)
Posted on 03/20/2023 04:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Church in Ireland aims to boost priestly vocations with new program (Our Sunday Visitor)
Posted on 03/20/2023 04:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
St. Patrick's Day blessings from Irish bishops' president (Vatican News)
Posted on 03/20/2023 04:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Why priests steal — researchers look to 'fraud triangle' in parish life (Pillar)
Posted on 03/20/2023 04:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Only 60% of Canadian children live with married parents (Institute for Family Studies)
Posted on 03/20/2023 04:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
In the historically Catholic province of Quebec, only 39% of children lived with married parents in 2021. 39% lived with common-law parents, and 20% lived with single parents.
Spanish monastery admits girls to choir for first time in 700-year history (The Guardian)
Posted on 03/20/2023 04:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Synod of Bishops' preparatory commission holds 1st meeting (CNS)
Posted on 03/20/2023 03:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The preparatory commission held its first meeting from March 13 to 16. Members were “told they will read and review all the reports from the continental stage of the synod reflection, assist in preparing the synod working document and help during the synod itself,” according to the report.
Pope hears confessions, launching this year's '24 Hours for the Lord' (Aleteia)
Posted on 03/20/2023 03:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
In his homily, Pope Francis reflected on the parable of the Pharisee and the publican. The Pontiff described the Sacrament of Reconciliation as “a festal encounter that heals the heart and leaves us with inner peace. Not a human tribunal to approach with dread, but a divine embrace in which to find consolation.”
Papal praise for humanitarian corridors, which 'break down the walls of indifference' (Vatican Press Office)
Posted on 03/20/2023 03:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
On March 18, Pope Francis addressed refugees—including more recent Ukrainian refugees—who have benefited from these humanitarian corridors, along with those who have assisted them (photographs, video).
“Humanitarian corridors build bridges that many children, women, men, and older persons fleeing from unstable and gravely dangerous situations cross in order to arrive safely, legally and with dignity, in their host countries,” the Pope said to those gathered in Paul VI Audience Hall. “These corridors cross borders and, more importantly, break down the walls of indifference that have shattered the hopes of so many people who have waited for years in painful and unbearable situations.”
Scripture offers examples of good and bad politics, Pope tells Italian young people (Vatican Press Office)
Posted on 03/20/2023 03:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The Old Testament examples of Ahab and Joseph, “one negative, the other positive, help us understand what kind of spirituality can fuel politics,” the Pope said to those gathered in Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace (photographs). “Your concern should not be electoral consensus or personal success, but involving people, generating entrepreneurship, making dreams flourish, making people feel the beauty of belonging to a community. Participation is the balm on the wounds of democracy.”