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Australian bishops ask voters to remember nation’s most vulnerable

Australian bishops ask voters to remember nation’s most vulnerable

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Catholic bishops urged Australians to consider the nation’s most vulnerable people when voting in federal elections May 21.

A woman with a child evacuates from a residential building damaged by Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 16, 2022.

Ukrainian sociologist Mychailo Wynnyckyj criticizes Pope Francis’ outreach to Russia

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I was baptized a Ukrainian Catholic. My wife and I were married in a Ukrainian Catholic Church in Kyiv, and our children were all baptized in this faith as well. Our church has a Patriarch (i.e., a separate hierarchy from Roman Catholics), but we recognize the spiritual supremacy of the Pope. In Ukraine, the Ukrainian Catholic Church follows the Julian calendar which means Easter will be celebrated next week.

Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski speaks during a session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2021.

‘Journeying together’ is at heart of synod, preparations

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In October 2023, Pope Francis will convene the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops with the theme, “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission.”

Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops' conference, celebrates Mass during the third Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt Feb. 4, 2021.

German bishop responds to letter criticizing Synodal Path

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The head of the German bishops' conference responded to an open letter from more than 70 bishops from four continents and expressed surprise at some of what they said -- and did not say.

The Caritas Ukraine office in Mariupol is pictured in a screenshot. In a statement published on its website, Caritas Ukraine said several people "were hiding from shelling and looking for a safe haven" in its Mariupol office when a Russian tank fired on the building, killing seven people.

Caritas office in Ukraine caught in crossfire, seminary ransacked

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Russian forces in Ukraine attacked a Caritas office in Mariupol and a Catholic seminary in a small village north of Kyiv, prompting renewed calls for an end to the war and to the targeting of innocent civilians.

Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops' conference, celebrates Mass during the third Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt Feb. 4, 2021.

Bishops from four continents express concern about Germany's Synodal Path

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In an open letter, 74 bishops from North America, Africa, Italy and Australia have expressed their "growing concern" about the German Synodal Path process and content, warning about its "potential for schism."

Myanmar soldiers walk along a street during a protest against the military coup in Yangon Feb. 28, 2021. Nearly 100 soldiers stormed the Sacred Heart Cathedral compound in Mandalay and forcibly entered the cathedral, archbishop's house, parish priest's residence and clergy center April 8, 2022.

Soldiers storm Myanmar cathedral

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Nearly 100 soldiers stormed the Sacred Heart Cathedral compound in Mandalay and forcibly entered the cathedral, archbishop's house, parish priest's residence and clergy center April 8.

Activists Lauren Handy, left, and Terrisa Bukovinac chant slogans against legal abortion outside the Supreme Court in Washington Dec. 10, 2021. Handy and Bukovinac, members of a group called Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, said at an April 5,2022, news conference that five fetuses police found in a member's District of Columbia home are "proof of illegal abortions." The group said they found the five fetuses and a number of others in medical waste discarded by an abortion clinic in the District.

Activists say fetuses from abortion clinic are 'proof of illegal abortions'

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Two members of a group called Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising said April 5 that five fetuses taken by the police a week earlier from the Capitol Hill residence of one of the activists were "proof of illegal abortions" being performed at a Washington abortion clinic.

Tourists walks by souvenir shops in Jerusalem's Old City April 3, 2022.

As three feasts converge, Holy Land Christians hope for peace, tourism

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With pandemic restrictions almost fully lifted, churches and shopkeepers alike are hopeful that the streets of Jerusalem will fill up once again as Easter, Passover and Ramadan converge.

Three Marianite Sisters: Suellen Tennyson, Pascaline Tougma and Pauline Dourin, are pictured in an undated photo near the clinic where they serve in Yago, Burkina Faso. Sister Tennyson, 83, an American, was kidnapped late April 4 or early April 5 after armed attackers broke into the convent on the parish compound.

U.S. nun, 83, kidnapped in Burkina Faso

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The attack in which Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson, 83, was abducted from her convent in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, the morning of April 5 was conducted by at least 10 armed men, the Marianites of Holy Cross said in an electronic newsletter.

Filipino Father Leoben Peregrino, 58, who disappeared April 1, 2022, was found unconscious April 3 and tied up in his car after being reported missing two days earlier, said police, who suspect he was the victim of a kidnap attempt. Father Peregrino, of Most Holy Rosary Parish in Rosario, Philippines, is pictured in an undated photo.

Missing Filipino priest found, unconscious and bound, after two days

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A Catholic priest in the Philippines was found unconscious and tied up in his car after being reported missing two days earlier, said police, who suspect he was the victim of a kidnap attempt.

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