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Nearly 30 women religious communities endorse transgender observance, advocacy in joint statement
(OSV News) — Close to 30 U.S. women religious communities, who say they represent “over 6,000 vowed Catholic religious and partners in mission in over 18 states,” released a joint statement endorsing the March 31 observance of International Transgender Day …
Pope says be close to those ‘abandoned’ like Christ: unborn, migrants
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The unborn, migrants, the elderly and the disabled are “living icons” of Jesus that call Christians to draw close to those who feel abandoned just as Christ did on the cross, Pope Francis said. In his …
Pope hospitalized for respiratory infection, Vatican says
After having difficulty breathing, Pope Francis went to Rome’s Gemelli hospital March 29 where he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection, the Vatican press office said.
Pope Francis accepts German bishop’s resignation over errors in handling abuse
The vice president of the German bishops’ conference, Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, has become the first Catholic bishop in Germany to resign in connection with the abuse scandal.
Diocesan officials call shooting at Nashville Presbyterian school ‘sad, shocking’
Officials of the Nashville Diocese called news of a morning mass shooting and loss of life at a private Christian school in the city heartbreaking and “deeply sad and shocking.”
Tornado kills, injures dozens in Mississippi
No less than 23 people have been killed after at least one powerful tornado tore through rural Mississippi on the night of March 24, injuring dozens and causing widespread destruction.
Contamination of water poses long-term hazards to communities, environment
The biblical author of Proverbs advises, “Drink water from your own cistern; flowing water from your own well.” But in the centuries before Jesus Christ’s birth when these verses were written, water pollution from chemicals and artificial contaminants was unknown.