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“The future of the Church can and will issue from those whose roots are deep and who live from the pure fullness of their faith. It will not issue from those who accommodate themselves merely to the passing moment or from those who merely criticize others and assume that they themselves are infallible measuring rods;

Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Parish, Green Valley’s largest church, is closed through Nov. 9 after a priest and deacon who presided at several recent Masses tested positive for COVID-19.

La conmemoración del Día de los Fieles Difuntos, cuando los católicos recuerdan y oran por los muertos, tiene un significado fuerte este año, cuando tantos han muerto de COVID-19 y las restricciones por la pandemia han impedido los servicios fúnebres habituales y las últimas despedidas de seres querido en persona.

Citing St. Ambrose's assertion that "the church has always been a 'casta meretrix' ('chaste prostitute')," the pope said that although the vast majority of people in the church follow "the right path," it is "undeniable that personalities of various types and depth, clerics and many fake lay friends of the church, have helped to squander the resources and property, not of the Vatican but of the faithful."

Father McGivney is beatified during a Mass at Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, with Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, as the main celebrant and the pope's representative. Blessed McGivney is the first U.S. parish priest to be beatified.

In a nutshell, Francis said the problem goes back centuries, that he’s doing his best to root it out, that more action is coming soon, but he’s “honestly not very optimistic” it will succeed and there’s a constant danger of backsliding because corruption is “cyclical.”

Who is my neighbor? Who is my brother and sister? Drawing on central gospel themes found in the Good Samaritan narrative, Pope Francis applies them to the whole “human family,” proposing that the logic of social friendship and neighborly love move beyond the personal to touch on every major social sphere. Join as this panel of experts in Catholic Social Thought discuss Pope Francis’s latest social encyclical, Fratelli Tutti.

Bishop urges parishioners to pray, wear masks and care for each other.

As the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 marked its 20th year Oct. 28, the Catholic congressman who wrote it — and four other anti-trafficking laws in the intervening years — celebrated the historic legislation that holds every nation on the globe “to account on human trafficking matters.”

Bishops in the United States and around the world expressed condolences after three people were murdered before Mass Oct. 29 in the basilica in Nice, France.

Police stand near Notre Dame Basilica in Nice, France, Oct. 29, 2020, after at least three people were killed in a series of stabbings before Mass. France raised its alert level to maximum after the attack.

Tucson seminarians adapt to studies in a Covid 19 environment, “for those within our cohorts we are able to get more familiar and acquainted as we commune by watching movies and going on walks around the hill to pass the time,” says seminarian Carlos Nagore, from the Diocese of Tucson, Arizona. - Catholic Sentinel

The Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences is calling for the release of Indian Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy and 15 human rights activists facing trial for alleged links with Maoist rebels.

A divided Senate, in a 52-48 vote, confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as a justice for the Supreme Court the evening of Oct. 26 and soon afterward she was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas at a White House ceremony.

Europeans must not see their rich history simply as a fond memory of a time long gone, but they must look to it as a guide to overcoming divisions and challenges aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis said.

Oregon Catholic Press has launched the Parishioner Personal Missal Program, offering members of parish communities the opportunity to have their own personal copy of their parish's missal. The aim is to help promote safe and active participation in the Mass, while at home or in church.

El ascenso del nacionalismo y las divisiones ideológicas podrían crear las mismas circunstancias que condujeron al surgimiento del partido nazi en Alemania y a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, advirtió el papa Francisco.

La prueba de estar en un camino de conversión y santidad consiste siempre en amar al prójimo, dijo el papa Francisco.

At a criminal trial involving alleged sexual abuse at a minor seminary located in the Vatican, the Vatican City State criminal court approved a motion to charge the seminary and the religious institution that runs it with failing to protect the young students.

A fines de septiembre, habíamos servido 94,631 comidas, habíamos dirigido 21 experiencias de inmersión educativa y habíamos ofrecido 61 presentaciones.