• Can ET call anyone? Jesuit astronomer studies intragalactic possibilities
    Can ET call anyone? Jesuit astronomer studies intragalactic possibilities
    August 26, 2020
    It's a long-standing puzzle, stemming from a conversation in the summer of 1950 among a group of physicists who were wondering: If there is such a high probability of life existing elsewhere in the universe, then, as Enrico Fermi was alleged to have said, "Where is everybody?"
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  • School reopening: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Elementary School, Tucson
    School reopening: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Elementary School, Tucson
    August 25, 2020
    St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School PreK will be opening for in-person learning on Tuesday, September 8th!
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  • Venerable Eusebio Kino, the desert and the universal call to  holiness
    Venerable Eusebio Kino, the desert and the universal call to  holiness
    August 25, 2020
    Fr. Eusebio Kino, S.J. defended the desert people, founded 24 missions, many visitas, 19 rancherias, began the cattle industry in Sonora and Arizona. planted fruit trees and introduced new grains to augment the tradition crops of the desert people.
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  • Priest said the invalidity of his baptism and ordination was a blessing in disguise
    Priest said the invalidity of his baptism and ordination was a blessing in disguise
    August 25, 2020
    "It was devastating for me to find that out," "It meant I wasn't baptized, and I hadn't received any of my other sacraments -- first Communion, confirmation or ordination to the diaconate or the priesthood."
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  • Californians 'on edge' as historic wildfires rage
    Californians 'on edge' as historic wildfires rage
    August 25, 2020
    "People are just stunned, with the pandemic and the downturn in the economy and the racial issues and then on top of that, the wildfires," said Bishop Oscar Cantú, head of the Diocese of San Jose in an Aug. 24 interview with Catholic News Service. "It makes you wonder, what else? All we need is an earthquake."
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  • Paul Sayre is the Diocesan Director of Child, Adolescent and Adult Protection
    Paul Sayre is the Diocesan Director of Child, Adolescent and Adult Protection
    August 24, 2020
    After a thirty year career in law enforcement and a former Captain in the Tucson Police Department, Mr. Sayre continues his career protecting the vulnerable.
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  • Vatican II and the New Evangelization
    Vatican II and the New Evangelization
    August 24, 2020
    Vatican II, or the Second Vatican Council, was a gatherings of bishops from around the world, under the leadership of the pope, to authoritatively discuss and define Church doctrine and discipline.
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  • Pius X a reminder that Vatican reform isn’t a political animal
    Pius X a reminder that Vatican reform isn’t a political animal
    August 23, 2020
    So, why would Pope Francis’s Vatican go out of its way to praise the anti-modernist pope?
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  • Remembering Pope Francis's words about persecuted Christians
    Remembering Pope Francis's words about persecuted Christians
    August 22, 2020
    As the world commemorates the International Day of the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion, we recall Pope Francis’s words on the persecution of Christians.
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  • Report shows NGOs complying with ban on using U.S. foreign aid for abortion
    Report shows NGOs complying with ban on using U.S. foreign aid for abortion
    August 22, 2020
    The Trump administration has released its second report on implementation of its Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy, which bans abortion as a method of family planning in other countries.
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  • Planned Parenthood drops suit against Indiana abortion law on ultrasounds
    Planned Parenthood drops suit against Indiana abortion law on ultrasounds
    August 22, 2020
    People in South Bend, Ind., voice their pro-life beliefs during a local March for Life in this undated photo. (CNS photo/Jennifer Miller, Today’s Catholic)
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  • Mexican parishes refocus aid responses as pandemic drags on
    Mexican parishes refocus aid responses as pandemic drags on
    August 22, 2020
    A volunteer stirs pozole, a pork and hominy soup, for the needy at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Mexico City Aug. 17, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • NIH board votes against funding most research proposals using fetal tissue
    NIH board votes against funding most research proposals using fetal tissue
    August 22, 2020
    The chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee Aug. 20 praised the National Institutes of Health's Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board for its decision to withhold funds from 13 of 14 research proposals that involved the use of fetal tissue.
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  • Bologna’s Lercaro pointed to a papacy 50 years before its time
    Bologna’s Lercaro pointed to a papacy 50 years before its time
    August 21, 2020
    “Bologna Rossa,” or “Red Bologna,” so dubbed because of its red brick architecture but also because it was a stronghold of the Italian Communist Party, was the city of Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro, one of the liberal heroes of the Second Vatican Council and Europe’s foremost patron of the new liberationist currents swirling at the time in Latin America.
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  • Cremation, the Resurrection and Finances
    Cremation, the Resurrection and Finances
    August 21, 2020
    Today burial is beyond the means of many Catholics; one might even suggest that burial is for the rich. This is far from a minor consideration and even has profound ethical implications. If cremation borders on morally objectionable, which Hahn implies, should parishes be ready to help families pay for burial and all that goes with it?
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  • Bishop says normalization of relations between Israel, UAE, can bring peace
    Bishop says normalization of relations between Israel, UAE, can bring peace
    August 21, 2020
    The normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates can be a step for peace in the Middle East, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace.
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  • Pope-less economy: Castel Gandolfo forced to change course
    Pope-less economy: Castel Gandolfo forced to change course
    August 21, 2020
    Milvia Monachesi, quien fue electa alcaldesa de Castel Gandolfo en 2012, dijo que "por un momento" en 2013, "pensé que era la alcaldesa con más suerte del mundo: tendría dos papas". "Pero ahora no hay ni uno", acotó el 14 de agosto.
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  • Rare discoveries shed light on persecuted Catholic life in Tudor England
    Rare discoveries shed light on persecuted Catholic life in Tudor England
    August 20, 2020
    Persecuted Catholics at a restoration project at a country house in Norfolk. The restorers uncovered items that shed new light on the steadfast faith of a Catholic family in the wake of the English Reformation.
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  • Bishop Bransfield offers 'apology', repays $400k to W Virginia diocese
    Bishop Bransfield offers 'apology', repays $400k to W Virginia diocese
    August 20, 2020
    Bishop Michael Bransfield has repaid more than $400,000 to his former diocese and issued a narrowly-worded apology to the faithful.
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  • El Papa Francisco: liberar la figura de María de la influencia de las mafias
    El Papa Francisco: liberar la figura de María de la influencia de las mafias
    August 20, 2020
    En una carta a la Pontificia Academia Mariana Internacional, el Papa expresa su agradecimiento por la institución de un Departamento de análisis y estudio de los fenómenos criminales y mafiosos, "para liberar la figura de la Virgen María de la influencia de las organizaciones criminales". Entrevista con el Padre Stefano Cecchin, Presidente de la Academia Pontificia.
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