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'God weeps,' says pope, calling for accountability on sex abuse crimes
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...Sister Simone Campbell leads another Nuns on the Bus tour
Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, recently led another Nuns on the Bus tour, “Bridge the Divides: Transform Politics.”
...Pope Francis canonizes, and defends, controversial Spanish missionary
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...Phyllis Tickle, a best-selling author on spirituality, dies at 81
Phyllis Tickle, a best-selling author on American faith and spirituality, died September 22 under hospice care at her farm in Lucy, Tennessee. She was 81.
...New Nuns on the Bus tour to highlight Pope Francis U.S. visit and agenda
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(RNS) Pope Francis is set to arrive in Washington on September 22 by plane. The nuns are coming on a bus.
...Pope Francis says the church must welcome divorced and remarried Catholics
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...Why Jewish socialist Bernie Sanders will speak at Falwell's Baptist university
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...Francis sets up abuse tribunal for bishops
Pope Francis has approved the first-ever system for judging and possibly deposing bishops who fail to protect children from abusive clerics, a major step in responding to Catholics who have been fu...
Americans prefer 'pro-choice' label by biggest margin in seven years
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...Phyllis Tickle faces death as she enjoys life: ‘Dying is my next career’
Phyllis Tickle has written more widely about the contours of American faith and spirituality than most in the past generation. And now, at 81, she’s working on her own final chapter.
...Gustavo Gutiérrez, theologian once investigated by Vatican, now featured speaker there
Decades ago the Vatican doctrinal office investigated and censured liberation theologians....
Jean-Clement Jeanbart, Syrian Christian leader, tours U.S.
During a recent tour of the United States, Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart of Aleppo, Syria, described the fighting that erupted Easter weekend, targeting the Christian quarter of the city and ki...
Mary Ann Walsh, longtime Catholic bishops’ spokeswoman, dies at 68
Mary Ann Walsh, 68, a longtime spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, died on April 28.
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