The new commission is among the first diocesan initiatives in Poland and the Catholic world focused specifically on adults harmed in Church settings.
Europe
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The Vatican foreign minister urged Russian officials to end their war with Ukraine and to begin negotiations with the help of the international community.
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St. John “wields extraordinary significance for our times” because he touches upon ‘the human heart and its search for meaning,” the prior said.
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Baptisms in the Catholic Church in Ireland have fallen by almost a third since 2015, with just one Irish diocese seeing any positive change, a new report shows.
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“The distressed and wounded who need consolation and reparation must hold first place in Lourdes. This is the distinct grace of this sanctuary.”
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“We need to pray and to explain to our brothers and sisters that we need to keep our hope. And our hope is Jesus, not this life.”
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(OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV will make a four-day apostolic journey to France Sept. 25-28, with a program that stretches from the Élysée Palace and UNESCO in Paris to …
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Their legacy endures as a reminder that the Gospel is lived not through privilege, but through closeness to the people entrusted to the Church’s care.
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OSV News has learned that 22 previously undisclosed letters from women who belonged to the Slovenian Loyola Community and described alleged abuse by the famed mosaic artist are part of …
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Spanish officials confirmed most migrants had now been returned to neighboring Morocco, enabling a traditional August Church festival to go ahead in Cuerta.
