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Toronto’s Cardinal Thomas Collins celebrates Mass March 4 for the first live Lift Jesus Higher Rally since the pandemic first hit in 2020. The event drew 2,600 celebrants to downtown Toronto’s Metro Convention Centre.

Lift Jesus Higher Rally goes live

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The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People is on a fact-finding mission on reconciliation in Canada.

UN reconciliation review skips bishops

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Canada’s relationship with Indigenous people is getting a check-up and Canada’s Catholic bishops want to be part of it. Whether or not they get the chance is still up in the air.

Bagpipers march past St. Mary Church during the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in East Islip, N.Y., March 5. The feast of St. Patrick, patron of Ireland, is March 17.

Bishops add spiritual ‘meat’ to St. Patrick’s Day plate

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With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Lenten Friday this year, many U.S. bishops have issued dispensations from abstinence on March 17, allowing the faithful to enjoy the American Irish tradition of eating corned beef (or ham) and cabbage in good conscience.

As bishop of Krakow in the 1960s, Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was a prolific writer. He is pictured in an undated photo.

Polish experts reject claim JPII 'covered up abuse,' urge all church records be opened

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The fact that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla -- the future Pope John Paul II -- knew about abuse when he was an archbishop of Krakow, Poland, is neither new nor surprising, experts say.

Former cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick arrives at Dedham District Court in Dedham, Mass., Sept. 3, 2021, after being charged with molesting a 16-year-old boy during a 1974 wedding reception. McCarrick, who is trying to escape criminal charges by claiming dementia, told a reporter Feb. 28, 2023, he recalled the name of the man he allegedly sexually abused as a child but denied the sexual assaults.

McCarrick admits knowing victim as a child, denies sexual assaults

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Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, whose attorneys have argued he should not stand trial due to "progressive and irreparable cognitive deficits," recalled the name of the man he allegedly sexually abused as a child, although he denied the sexual assaults.

Volunteers with Caritas Lebanon's Emergency Response Unit (in black) are seen with members Caritas Syria (with tan vests) as they help with relief operations during the Lebanon group's Feb. 9-16, 2023, trip to neighboring Syria to assist victims of the devastating Feb. 6 earthquake.

Catholic aid groups network to serve needs of Turkey, Syria quake survivors

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Catholic aid agencies are working alongside other international humanitarian organizations to house, feed and administer additional life-saving assistance to tens of thousands of people in Syria and Turkey.

A cardinal holds his biretta as Pope Francis celebrates Mass with new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 29, 2020. Two U.S. prelates have recently traded what one called some "strong words" in the media, debating the reception of holy Communion, sexual sin, pastoral outreach to marginalized Catholics and allegations of heresy among church leadership.

U.S. prelates spar in the media over the Eucharist, 'radical inclusion' and 'heresy'

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Two U.S. prelates have recently traded what one called some "strong words" in the media, debating the reception of holy Communion, sexual sin, pastoral outreach to marginalized Catholics and allegations of heresy among church leadership.

Nigerian women, rescued from human traffickers, gather in a shelter near Moscow.

Trafficking support lacking in churches

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Metropolitan Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia says Ukraine is “the wounded victim we stand over today.”

Churches must lead path to healing in Ukraine, experts say

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The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula are seen in an image released by NASA July 12, 2022. The "cliffs" are divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. The image is from data provided by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes.

Newly discovered ancient galaxies put spotlight on 'Big Bang Theory,' God's act of creation

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Robert Jastrow, the NASA astronomer, planetary physicist and popular author who decoded the complexities of space for a generation of Americans until his passing in 2008, told the witty tale of a scientist whose life was ruled by faith in the power of reason. Ultimately arriving at the highest peak in his quest to conquer the mountains of ignorance, the scientist scales the final summit -- only to find himself "greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."

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