Read more about the article U.S. synod report finds participants share common hopes, lingering pain
Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Conn., speaks Nov. 13, 2018, at Theology on Tap with Sarah Yaklic, director of Grotto Network out of the University of Notre Dame, and Jonathan Lewis, assistant secretary for pastoral ministry and social concerns in the Archdiocese of Washington. Catholic young people are among the many groups of the faithful worldwide invited to share testimony and talk abut their experience of church during preparations for the 2023 world Synod of Bishops on synodality. (CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard)

U.S. synod report finds participants share common hopes, lingering pain

‘The listening is an opening movement toward a wise discernment locally, regionally and nationally’

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Read more about the article Bishops speak against transport of migrants; it ‘offends God,’ says one
A group of mainly Venezuelan migrants sent to Washington by bus from detention in Texas are dropped off outside the Naval Observatory, the official residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, Sept. 17, 2022. (CNS photo/Marat Sadana, Reuters)

Bishops speak against transport of migrants; it ‘offends God,’ says one

‘The problem is not the refugees, it is leaders that cannot accept: We are one with humanity’

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Read more about the article ‘We thank you,’ San Francisco archbishop tells first responders at Mass
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco blesses uniformed police, firefighters and sheriff’s deputies with holy water Sept. 11, 2022, during the annual memorial Mass for San Francisco's police, fire and sheriff departments at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco. (CNS photo/Dennis Callahan, Archdiocese of San Francisco)

‘We thank you,’ San Francisco archbishop tells first responders at Mass

‘We don't know what we’d do without you’

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Read more about the article Pope: Religions must be purified of extremism, self-righteousness 
Pope Francis kisses the encolpion of Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, during a private meeting during the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions at the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Sept. 14, 2022. An encolpion is an episcopal pectoral medallion with an icon. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope: Religions must be purified of extremism, self-righteousness 

Pope: ‘It is time for open and compassionate hearts’

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Read more about the article Actor, filmmaker on North Dakota Catholic college’s faculty showcases state
This is a scene from the movie "Sanctified," which was shot in the Badlands of North Dakota in May 2021 and premieres Sept. 30, 2022, in Bismarck, N.D., theaters. The film's producer, Dan Bielinski, also is program chair of dramatic arts at the University of Mary in Bismarck. (CNS photo/courtesy University of Mary)

Actor, filmmaker on North Dakota Catholic college’s faculty showcases state

Bielinski’s goal is to ‘honor the true, the good and beautiful, no matter what genre of story.’

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Read more about the article Arriving in Kazakhstan, pope makes case for peace
Pope Francis greets journalists aboard his flight from Rome to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Sept. 13, 2022. The pope is visiting Kazakhstan to attend the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Arriving in Kazakhstan, pope makes case for peace

‘Our world urgently needs peace; it needs to recover harmony’

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