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Pope offers prayers for victims of terrorist attack in Barcelona

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis offered prayers for the victims of a terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain, that left at least 12 people dead and injured dozens of others. “With great concern the Holy Father has learned about what is happening in Barcelona. The pope prays for the victims of this attack and wants to express […] Full Story

• At jubilee, Pope Francis urges Pentecostals, Catholic charismatics to ‘walk, work together’

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published August 4, 2017

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Holy Spirit continues to give Christians different gifts and to call them to share those gifts with each other in a community marked by forgiveness and “unity in diversity,” Pope Francis said on Pentecost. “In a way both creative and unexpected,” the pope said, the Holy Spirit “generates diversity, for in every […] Full Story

• New path to sainthood: Giving up one’s life in heroic service

  

  By CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
  Published August 3, 2017

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis has approved a fourth pathway to possible sainthood—giving one’s life in a heroic act of loving service to others. In a new apostolic letter, the pope approved new norms allowing for candidates to be considered for sainthood because of the heroic way they freely risked their lives and died prematurely because […] Full Story

• As the partial travel ban nears, agencies worry about refugees in limbo

  By RHINA GUIDOS, Catholic News Service
  Published July 6, 2017

  WASHINGTON (CNS)—Agencies and organizations that help refugees start new lives in the U.S. worry about the fate that awaits migrants in transit as well as those who will not be allowed into the country as the partial ban that the U.S. Supreme Court set in motion with its late June ruling goes into effect in […] Full Story