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Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio speaks during the Kolbe Ministries statewide conference at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in San Antonio July 20.

Texas prison ministries bring sacraments and message of hope

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SAN ANTONIO, TX. -- Crowding around a painted portrait of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish friar who died in a German concentration camp during World War II, prison inmates and retreat leaders smiled for a group photo at a recent retreat.

Retired Bishop Erwin Krautler gestures during an interview in Altamira, Brazil. Bishop Krautler served in the Amazon region of Para state and has long been a fierce defender of poor and indigenous peoples in Brazil.

Brazilian government should not fear October synod

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SAO PAULO -- With a month to go before the start of the Synod of Bishops for Amazon, retired Bishop Erwin Krautler of Xingu said the Brazilian government should not fear the discussions to be held in Rome.

Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick attends a reception for new cardinals in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Nov. 20, 2010.

Investigation finds McCarrick sexually assaulted seminarians

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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. -- A yearlong investigation by Seton Hall University confirmed that Theodore McCarrick, the laicized cardinal who had been archbishop of Newark from 1986 to 2000, had sexually harassed seminarians during his tenure as head of the archdiocese.

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

McCarrick denies abuse allegations in interview

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WASHINGTON -- Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington who was laicized last February following a Vatican trial on sexual abuse charges leveled against him, continued to deny he had abused anyone in an August interview with the online journal Slate.

Shanenawa people dance Sept. 1, 2019, during a festival to celebrate nature and ask for an end to the burning of the Amazon, in the indigenous village of Morada Nova near Feijo, Brazil. The Brazilian Catholic bishops are pressuring the government to guarantee the safety of several Amazonian indigenous peoples.

Catholics denounce attacks against Brazil's indigenous peoples in Amazon

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SAO PAULO -- After denouncing the record number of wildfires in the Amazon in August and the growing deforestation of the region, the Brazilian Catholic Church is pressuring the government to guarantee the safety of several Amazonian indigenous peoples, alerting the authorities of the imminent risk of genocide in northern Brazil.

An officer with the U.S. Army military honor guard holds the U.S. flag over the casket of the late Carl Mann Sr., a World War II veteran, during his burial June 6, 2019, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, outside Washington. In a joint appeal marking 80 years since start of World War II, Polish and German bishops warn that Europeans still need to work toward peace and unity.

Polish, German bishops mark start WWII urging for new peace efforts

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WARSAW, Poland -- Catholic bishops from Poland and Germany have warned that peace and unity are still needed in Europe, 80 years after the start of World War II.

The daughters of Asia Bibi, a Catholic eventually aquitted of blasphemy, pose in 2010 with an image of their mother while standing outside their residence in Sheikhupura, Pakistan. Bibi, the Pakistani Catholic mother freed after eight years on death row, says people must help Pakistanis falsely implicated in blasphemy cases get released.

Asia Bibi: People must help Pakistanis falsely accused of blasphemy

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MANCHESTER, England -- The "whole world" should put pressure on Pakistan to either scrap or reform its controversial blasphemy laws, said Asia Bibi, the Catholic mother freed after eight years on death row.

Messages written in sidewalk chalk are seen at the University of Texas of the Permian Basinas Sept. 2, 2019, following an Aug. 31mass shooting in Odessa, Texas.

Catholic leaders respond with 'heavy hearts' to Texas shooting

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WASHINGTON -- Catholic leaders across the United States reacted with sorrow and "heavy hearts" to a mass shooting in west Texas Aug. 31 that authorities said claimed seven lives and wounded 25 others.

esuit Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, the new superior general of the Society of Jesus, speaks at a press conference in Rome Oct. 18.

Exorcists question Jesuit’s view of devil

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Contrary to statements made by Jesuit superior general Fr. Arturo Sosa, an international organization of Catholic exorcists said the existence of Satan as a real and personal being is a truth of Christian doctrine.

A man waves China's flag as Pope Francis leads his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

China’s one-child policy will leave lasting damage, expert warns

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BEIJING, China (CNA) -- Although China announced it was ending its one-child policy in 2015, the effects of the communist regime’s controversial measure will be felt for generations to come, an expert has warned. 

Cardinal George Alencherry of the Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, India, is pictured at the Vatican Feb. 18, 2012. Cardinal Alencherry, who had faced multiple investigations for allegedly selling church land and incurring a multimillion-dollar loss, will face trial in India according to a ruling of the Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court.

Alencherry will face trial over land deals, Indian court rules

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DENVER, Colo. (CNA) -- An Indian court has ruled that Cardinal George Alencherry will stand trial in a case related to controversial land deals in the Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly.

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