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Worshippers attend a candlelight procession in 2016 at the annual Skaro Pilgrimage in Alberta. The shrine was built in 1919 by Polish pioneers who hauled 600 wagonloads of stones to the site. (CNS photo/Lincoln Ho, Grandin Media)

After 100 years, Marian shrine in Alberta still draws thousands

Posted by - August 11, 2018
SKARO, Alberta (CNS) — It’s easy to drive by the stone grotto at the Skaro shrine for those who don’t know its history. Tucked in a corner between two rural…
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Fabrizio Ghilardi, managing director of the Wisdomless Club, poses at the club in Rome June 12. In a city where many restaurants and bars are being modernized, the new club offers a quiet atmosphere with 1930s decor and classical Christian art. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Tradition with a twist: Rome club has ancient roots, modern flair

Posted by - August 11, 2018
ROME (CNS) — While Rome always has been a city of beauty that highlights both the past and the present, a quaint and unusual bar nestled in the heart of…
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In this 2016 file photo, Filipinos walk past a newspaper stand in Manila, Philippines. A Philippine church official urged about 150 priests, women religious and lay people working in Catholic media to confront "fake news" during the annual National Catholic Media Convention Aug. 6-9 in Davao City. (CNS photo/Mark R. Cristino, EPA)

Filipino Catholic media urged to confront ‘fake news’

Posted by - August 11, 2018
DAVAO CITY, Philippines (CNS) — Filipinos working in the church’s social communication ministry need a lot of prayer and a “sense of mission” to be able “to combat fake news”…
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The delegates, translators and secretaries of the XVI General Chapter of the Mercedarian Missionaries of Berriz at their motherhouse in Berriz, Spain. One month was spent in the Chapter, in this every six year gathering, by the sister-delegates from around the world in prayerful discernment of their ONE MISSION.

GENERAL CHAPTER 2018

Posted by - August 11, 2018
The spirit of Blessed Margarita Maria Maturana pervaded the XVI General Chapter of the Institute of the Mercedarian Missionaries of Berriz which she founded.  An updated Missionary Plan for the…
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Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., chair of the U.S. bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty, speaks during a religious freedom event July 30 at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington. Among others also pictured are, closest to the podium, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Religious liberty ‘rooted in dignity of human person,’ says archbishop

Posted by - August 4, 2018
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, gave three reasons why religious freedom is important to the Catholic Church in a speech July 30 at a conference…
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The Trebevic cable car is seen above the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in early April. The world needs leaders who can "put into practice a more just way for all of us to live in this world as sharers in a common destiny," Pope Francis said in a letter to the international conference of "Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church," gathering in Sarajevo July 26-29. (CNS photo/Dado Ruvic, Reuters)

World needs leaders who are just, compassionate, merciful, pope says

Posted by - August 4, 2018
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The world needs leaders who can “put into practice a more just way for all of us to live in this world as sharers in a…
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