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Priests will not be allowed to offer their blessing to same-sex couples during formal ceremonies — only during things like meetings, pilgrimages or group prayers.
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Pope Francis arrived Monday at the site of a former Indigenous residential school to deliver long-awaited apology for the Catholic Church's role in Canada's policy of forcibly assimilating Native peoples into Christian society that led to generations of trauma and abuse.
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Last week, Pope Francis called for the legal recognition of civil unions between same-sex couples. He made the comments in an interview for the…
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The Catholic Church nationwide, as well as in Bridgeport and on Long Island, has been in the headlines for the past few months. There is continuing…
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Pope Francis has chosen a new bishop to lead the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island.Bishop John O. Barres of Allentown, Pennsylvania, will replace…
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During the first ever papal address to Congress, Pope Francis called the current refugee crisis in Europe the worst the world has seen since World War…
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A Public Religion Research Institute report released this August says less than half of young adults 18 to 29 in the United States have a favorable view…
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Pope Francis is visiting the United States this week, and on one of his stops he’ll be presiding over a 2 million-person mass in Philadelphia. One of the…
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More than a hundred parishioners from a mostly-Spanish-speaking parish in New Haven, Connecticut are going to Philadelphia on Sunday. The group from St.…
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The speech had something for everyone. It had several lines that might have made members of both parties uncomfortable — but mostly Republicans.