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‘Left Behind,’ first in trilogy, weaves fiction with rapture theology
October 17, 2014NEW YORK (CNS)—The fundamentalist conception of the rapture, as described in the best-selling “Left Behind” novels, may be arriving—for the first time—at a movie theater near you. Three earlier films, all starring Kirk Cameron, were marketed primarily as home videos, though the first did have a limited theatrical release. They never drew as large an […]
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Archbishop urges peace in streets during new round of Ferguson protests
October 17, 2014ST. LOUIS (CNS)—Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis urged protesters to turn away from violence as a new round of protests began over the shooting death of African-American teenager Michael Brown this past summer in the small town of Ferguson. The protests were to take place not only in Ferguson, where Brown was fatally […]
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Texas nurse with Ebola supported by prayers from her home parish
October 17, 2014DALLAS (CNS)—During an Oct. 13 Mass at Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Fort Worth, the pastor, Father Jim Khoi asked for prayers for Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse who grew up in the parish and is now in the news as the first person known to have contracted the Ebola virus in the United […]
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Speechless at refugees’ plight, pope prays for open hearts
October 17, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—People need to open their hearts to the many people who are forced to migrate as they face enormous difficulties and sometimes tragedy, Pope Francis said. “I pray for closed hearts that they may open. And everything I have available to me, is available to you,” he told a group of young Eritreans […]
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Father Barron: Having patience for the sausage-making synod
October 16, 2014The midterm report on the deliberations of the Synod on the Family has appeared, and there is a fair amount of hysteria all around. John Thavis, a veteran Vatican reporter who should know better, has declared this statement “an earthquake, the big one that hit after months of smaller tremors.” Certain commentators on the right […] Full Story
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Family synod midterm report: Welcome gays, couples not in sacramental marriages
October 16, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—In strikingly conciliatory language on situations contrary to Catholic teaching, an official midterm report from the Synod of Bishops on the family emphasized calls for greater acceptance and appreciation of divorced and remarried Catholics, cohabitating couples and homosexuals. “It is necessary to accept people in their concrete being, to know how to support […]
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Look to the East for canonical-spiritual balance, synod members say
October 16, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—By tapping into its Eastern theological and spiritual traditions, the Catholic Church could find an appropriate way to minister to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics and others in situations the church considers irregular, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church said. “According to the tradition of the Byzantine church, a priest or a […]
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Synod sends message, prayers to families suffering because of war
October 16, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Gathered with Pope Francis, members of the Synod of Bishops on the family issued a message of solidarity, support and prayers for all families suffering the impact of war and violence, especially in Iraq and Syria. The members prayed particularly for those who, “because of the Christian faith they profess or because they […]
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Married life is better with NFP, say couples at synod
October 16, 2014VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Catholic couples who ignore church teaching on contraception “don’t know what they are missing,” said a U.S. couple invited to address the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family. Alice and Jeff Heinzen, family life leaders in the Diocese of La Crosse, Wis., spoke at the synod Oct. 7, urging efforts to find […]