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Pope’s World Youth Day trip to include visits with sick, imprisoned

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—When Pope Francis visits Panama for World Youth Day later in January, he will meet with young people not able to attend the festivities: some in jail and with some living with HIV. He also will dedicate the altar of Panama’s newly renovated 400-year-old cathedral, meet with bishops from Central America and have […] Full Story | En Español

• As U.S. bishops meet, Vatican may be deciding fate of former cardinal

  

  By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service
  Published January 8, 2019

  WASHINGTON (CNS) — As U.S. bishops gathered in early January at a seminary in Illinois to pray and reflect about the American church’s sex abuse crisis, reports trickled out about the possible fate of one their own being decided overseas. The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported Jan. 5 that a decision on whether to laicize […] Full Story

• Robots and AI: Papal academy decodes newest pro-life challenges

  

  By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service
  Published January 4, 2019

  VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Even though today’s modern tools and technologies are hardly human, the Pontifical Academy for Life is zeroing in on the world of robots and machines powered by artificial intelligence. While the academy’s focus is on the protection of human life and dignity, the rapidly shifting and radical capabilities of robotics are […] Full Story

• Pope to U.S. bishops: Abuse crisis requires conversion, humility

  

  By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
  Published January 3, 2019

  VATICAN CITY—The clerical abuse crisis and the “crisis of credibility” it created for the U.S. bishops have led to serious divisions within the U.S. church and to a temptation to look for administrative solutions to problems that go much deeper, Pope Francis told the U.S. bishops. Without a clear and decisive focus on spiritual conversion […] Full Story