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Cardinal Dolan turns 75 – and joins a growing group of senior US churchmen
All Catholic bishops are required to submit a letter of resignation when they reach 75 years of age, but recently Francis has left senior leaders to serve for several months and even several years in ...
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7 Deadly Sins: List of the Biblical Offenses and Their Origins
That "original sin" hangs over all humanity, but in the Bible, God never hands down a list of seven sins as he does with the Ten Commandments ... of approval of a pope. St. Gregory the Great ...
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Nigerian archbishop says no one should die because they are hungry
(Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS ... He was speaking at Mass on Sunday, referring to the deaths of at least ten people following a stampede on Dec. 21 at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in ...
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The Case for Priestly Celibacy
The pope could wake up tomorrow and allow priests ... great reforming popes like Leo IX and Gregory VII insisted that henceforth the priesthood would be celibate. This decision greatly ...
Past their sell-by date: the science of calendars past and present
Teymour Taj celebrates the beginning of 2025 by exploring the weird and wonderful history of calendars As 2025 rolled in, ...
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Psychological thriller Conclave looks at the election of the pope. What’s the real story?
This shift marked the beginning of a more structured electoral procedure. To expedite elections, in 1274 Pope Gregory X introduced the conclave system, sequestering the cardinals and rationing ...
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Pope Francis: The Catholic Church is willing to accept a common date for Easter in the East and West
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar, dropping 10 days and making the equinox fall on March 21 again. Most Eastern Christians did not adopt the new calendar, leading to a situation ...
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Catholics will accept a common date for Easter in East, West, pope says
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar, dropping 10 days and making the equinox fall on March 21 again. Most Eastern Christians did not adopt the new calendar, leading to a situation ...
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Love and light: Pope Francis reflects on Christ’s presentation
In a profound reflection delivered during Sunday’s Angelus prayer, Pope Francis emphasized how Jesus Christ reveals the ultimate criterion by which all history is judged: love. “Whoever loves ...
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Biden gives Pope Francis highest civilian honor before leaving office
President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction to Pope Francis days before leaving the White House. Biden, who is only the second Catholic president in U.S. history ...
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Biden awards Pope Francis with highest civilian honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, over the phone
President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Pope Francis on Saturday. The medal was scheduled to be presented to the ...