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Our Lady of the Cape is blessed by Bishop J. Fred Colli at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Thunder Bay, Ont., in 2022.

Our Lady of the Cape to hit world stage

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Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Que.’s Our Lady of the Cape Marian statue will be a lady of the hour at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis this summer.

Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, president of the Polish bishops' conference, poses for a photo in Rome Sept. 25, 2021.

Polish prelate offers help in case of jailed ex-members of government on hunger strike

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The hunger strike by two imprisoned ex-members of the Polish government has caused an international stir. Now the church wants to try to resolve the conflict.

Cardinal Fernando Filoni, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, and Ambassador Visconti di Madrone, the order's governor general, light candles at the site marking the birth of Jesus in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Cardinal Filoni makes pilgrimage to Holy Land as sign of peace, solidarity

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Cardinal Fernando Filoni, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, an ancient chivalric order of the Catholic Church rooted in the Holy Land, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land as a sign of peace and dialogue during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Men install an Armenian flag next to a checkpoint on the road leading to Artsakh near the border village of Kornidzor, Armenia, Sept. 22, 2023.

Armenians won’t accept loss of Artsakh

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The 100,000 Armenians who fled en masse after Azerbaijan seized control of Nagorno-Karabakh — the enclave known to Armenians as Artsakh — last September are now facing a bitter winter as homeless refugees in Armenia.

A file photo shows a "Defend Religious Freedom" banner above the front door of St. John's Church in Onawa, Iowa. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' first annual "State of Religious Liberty in the United States," published Jan. 16, 2024, identifies five top threats to religious liberty in the United States, including a federal regulation it says could impose mandates on doctors to perform objectionable procedures and threats to the church's service to people who are migrants.

U.S. bishops identify liberty concerns

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A new annual report by the U.S. bishops’ conference identifies five top threats to religious liberty in the United States, including a federal regulation it says could impose mandates on doctors to perform objectionable procedures and threats to the Church’s service to people who are migrants.

A bouquet of flowers to celebrate the end of the reconstruction of the medieval choir framework of the Notre Dame Cathedral is pictured in Paris Jan. 12.

Notre Dame roof structure completed

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In a historic year for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which the French capital and the whole world will see reopen Dec. 8, milestones will be reported on regularly, but this one made Parisians shed a tear or two: Reconstruction of the roof structure is now complete.

Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa walks outside a Catholic church in Managua May 20, 2022. After more than 500 days' detention, the Ortega regime released the prelate, who has been the Nicaraguan government's most prominent critic, from prison Jan. 14, 2023, and sent into exile along with 18 other imprisoned churchmen. Bishop Álvarez safely landed in Rome Jan. 14, the Vatican confirmed.

Bishop Rolando Álvarez released, exiled from Nicaragua after over 500 days of detention

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Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa has been released from prison and sent into exile along with 18 imprisoned churchmen as the Nicaraguan government expelled its most prominent critic, whose presence behind bars bore witness to the Sandinista regime descent into totalitarianism, along with its unrelenting persecution of the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa, Congo, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar, speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Vatican Oct. 7, 2023.

Not appropriate to bless same-sex couples in Africa, bishops say

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Reaffirming their fidelity to the pope and the Gospel, Catholic bishops in Africa have released a common response to a recent Vatican declaration, saying they "generally prefer" not to offer blessings to same-sex couples.

Thousands gather in Sydney for Cardinal Pell's memorial Mass

Thousands gather in Sydney for Cardinal Pell's memorial Mass

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Thousands gathered at St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney in memory of a man they loved for his vision and "big heart" a year after his death in Rome.

Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick wears a mask during arraignment at Dedham District Court in Dedham, Mass., Sept. 3, 2021. Facing charges that he had molested a 16-year-old boy in 1974, the case was dismissed, the judge ruling that McCarrick no longer has the cognitive capacity to stand trial. On Jan. 10, 2024, a judge in Wisconsin suspended a similar case.

Wisconsin judge suspends criminal case against McCarrick

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A Wisconsin judge has suspended a criminal case against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick Jan. 10, citing incompetency. McCarrick had been charged with fourth-degree sexual assault for abuse that allegedly took place in 1977.

Father Leszek Gesiak, spokesman of the Polish bishops' conference, left, is seen at a Jan. 9, 2024, press conference in Warsaw with university professors explaining church financing and taxation of clergy. The newly installed Polish government coalition, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, said it would abolish a state Church Fund as part of its reforms. Church leaders said Jan. 9 they were not contacted by the government to discuss such a move and they needed to clarify "often inaccurate information on church financing or taxation of clergy."

Poland's bishops pledge dialogue with new government; others see conflict ahead for church

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Poland's bishops have pledged dialogue with their country's new liberal government, but leading Catholics warned that government plans for rapid secularizing change could spark conflict as the ruling coalition plans to limit religious classes in public schools and abolish the state Church Fund.

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