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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gestures at a news conference after the first Cabinet meeting at Moncloa Palace in Madrid Jan. 14, 2020.

Marxist communism reborn in Spain, cardinal says

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VALENCIA, Spain -- A Spanish cardinal warned Catholics that their country is on the verge of a communist revival.

Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, president of the Australian bishops' conference, gives the homily during Mass at a meeting on the protection of minors in the church at the Vatican Feb. 24, 2019. A six-person committee charged with reviewing church governance and management is expected to present Australia's bishops with a plan to overhaul the management of the church in the country.

Committee to recommend Australian bishops give laity certain controls

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YANGON, Myanmar -- A six-person committee charged with reviewing church governance and management is expected to present Australia's bishops with a plan to overhaul the management of the church in the country.

In this 2017 file photo, former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington is pictured in Baltimore, Md.

McCarrick moves from Franciscan friary to new location

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WASHINGTON -- Theodore McCarrick, the former cardinal who was laicized by the Vatican in 2019 after numerous claims of abuse by him were substantiated, moved Jan. 3 from the Capuchin Franciscan friary in Kansas where he had been living since late 2018.

Pictured is a blank page from a traditional baptismal register. The French bishops approved a reformulation of baptismal certificates to remove gender references for parents, so the church complies with equality laws.

French bishops approve removal of gendered terms from baptism certificates

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OXFORD, England -- The French bishops' permanent council has approved a recommendation to remove gender references for parents on baptismal certificates.

Bishop Gerhard Feige of Magdeburg, head of the German bishops' commission on ecumenism, voiced skepticism about a recent proposal by German theologians for Catholics and Protestants to reciprocally open access to Communion.

German bishop dampens hopes of shared Communion between Protestants and Catholics

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ERFURT, Germany -- Bishop Gerhard Feige of Magdeburg voiced skepticism about a recent proposal by German theologians for Catholics and Protestants to reciprocally open access to Communion.

Nick Sandmann, a junior at the time at Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., and other students from the school stand in front of Native American Nathan Phillips near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in this still image from video Jan. 18, 2019. CNN has reached a settlement with Sandmann, who had sued the news outlet saying it defamed him.

CNN settles lawsuit with Covington Catholic student

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WASHINGTON -- CNN reached an undisclosed settlement Jan. 7 with Nick Sandmann, a Kentucky Catholic high school student who sued the cable news outlet for defamation over its coverage of an incident that occurred after last year's March for Life.

The White House is seen in Washington at sunrise Jan. 8, 2020. Iran attacked two bases in Iraq that house American troops with a barrage of missiles early Jan. 8 in retaliation for the U.S. killing an Iranian general Jan. 3.

After missile attack, USCCB president urges leaders to seek peace

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WASHINGTON -- Hours after Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement calling for urgent prayers "that our world's leaders will pursue dialogue and seek peace."

A destroyed home is seen after an earthquake in Guanica, Puerto Rico, Jan. 6, 2020. A larger temblor of magnitude 6.4 rattled Puerto Rico before dawn Jan. 7, killing at least one person and destroying a Catholic church. A series of earthquakes and aftershocks beneath the southern part of the island have been occurring since the night of Dec. 28-29.

Catholic church damaged by earthquakes in Puerto Rico

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WASHINGTON -- At least one person has died and one Catholic church was destroyed by the latest of a series of earthquakes to rock Puerto Rico.

The Chinese national flag flies in front of a Catholic church in Huangtugang, China, Sept. 30, 2018. The Chinese government has targeted unregistered Catholic and Protestant churches with an expansion of rules and regulations governing religious organizations.

New rules in China target unregistered Catholic, Protestant churches

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SIEM REAP, Cambodia -- The Chinese government has targeted unregistered Catholic and Protestant churches with a new expansion of rules and regulations governing religious organizations.

Firefighters line the road as a vehicle carrying the casket of volunteer firefighter Andrew O'Dwyer passes en route to his funeral Mass at Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church in Sydney Jan. 7, 2020. O'Dwyer, a member of the Horsley Park Rural Fire Brigade in Sydney, died Dec. 19 when the truck he was traveling in rolled off the road after a tree fell in the town of Buxton.

'No end in sight to the horror': Australian bishops respond to fires

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CANBERRA, Australia -- Saying that "there is no end in sight to the horror which confronts us," Archbishop Mark Coleridge, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, said the bishops have implemented a national response to months of wildfires.

Smoke rises from a military base in Lamu County, Kenya, Jan. 5, 2020, after the Somali extremist group al-Shabab said it attacked the base. One American service member and two U.S. defense contractors were killed.

Following terrorist attack, Kenyan Catholic leaders sound alarm

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Catholic leaders in Kenya are sounding an alarm after a terror attack killed three Americans and forced local people to flee.

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