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Disagreements escalate over Notre-Dame rebuilding project
On: 11/15/2019, CNA Staff , In: World
Paris, France, Nov 15, 2019 CNA.- Tensions are reportedly running high between French authorities overseeing the rebuilding of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, as they create plans to rebuild the church damaged by fire earlier this year. Army General ...

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Disagreements escalate over Notre-Dame rebuilding project
On: 11/15/2019, CNA Staff , In: World
Paris, France, Nov 15, 2019 CNA.- Tensions are reportedly running high between French authorities overseeing the rebuilding of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, as they create plans to rebuild the church damaged by fire earlier this year. Army General ...

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What influence does religion have on Americans' lives?
On: 11/15/2019, Mark Pattison , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A new Pew Research Center survey issued Nov. 15 gauges the influence religion has on Americans' lives and the hold Catholicism and other Christian religions has on their adherents. "Just 8% of Catholics say they are very close with ...

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Chile bishops urge talks to end protests, injustice country faces
On: 11/15/2019, Barbara J. Fraser , In: World
LIMA, Peru (CNS) -- Chile's bishops called for national dialogue and an end to the violence that has wracked the country for the past month. Their pleas to end the violent protests came in two messages after demonstrators sacked the Assumption of Mary ...

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Catechism will be updated to include ecological sins, pope says
On: 11/15/2019, Junno Arocho Esteves , In: World
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Following through on a proposal made at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, Pope Francis said there are plans to include a definition of ecological sins in the church's official teaching. "We should be introducing -- we were thinking ...

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From Cardinal Seán's blog
On: 11/15/2019, , In: Local
Last Friday, All Saints Day, I was very happy to visit St. Francis Chapel in the Prudential Center to celebrate a Mass to mark the 50th anniversary of the chapel's founding by Cardinal Richard Cushing. (As I often quip, I could spend my whole life celebrating ...

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Disagreements escalate over Notre-Dame rebuilding project

Paris, France, Nov 15, 2019 CNA.- Tensions are reportedly running high between French authorities overseeing the rebuilding of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, as they create plans to rebuild the church damaged by fire earlier this year.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A new Pew Research Center survey issued Nov. 15 gauges the influence religion has on Americans' lives and the hold Catholicism and other Christian religions has on their adherents.

LIMA, Peru (CNS) -- Chile's bishops called for national dialogue and an end to the violence that has wracked the country for the past month. Their pleas to end the violent protests came in two messages after demonstrators sacked the Assumption of Mary Parish in Santiago, the Chilean capital, Nov. 8, burning pews and statues. Other parishes also were attacked, including one in the southern city of Valparaiso.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Following through on a proposal made at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, Pope Francis said there are plans to include a definition of ecological sins in the church's official teaching.

Last Friday, All Saints Day, I was very happy to visit St. Francis Chapel in the Prudential Center to celebrate a Mass to mark the 50th anniversary of the chapel's founding by Cardinal Richard Cushing. (As I often quip, I could spend my whole life celebrating 50th anniversaries of initiatives that Cardinal Cushing started!)