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- Vatican event on priesthood to explore topic of celibacy
  
  A top Vatican official charged with organizing a major symposium on the priesthood next year has said the discussion will touch on several controversial hot-button issues such as priestly celibacy...
- Rome judge orders arrest of Vatican suspect in London deal
  
  A Rome judge ordered the arrest Monday of an Italian businessman living in London who is a prime suspect in the Vatican’s two-year investigation into the Holy See’s 350-million-euro ($416 million...
- Big tech must do more to prevent abuse online, Vatican expert says
  
  A leading expert in child protection has said that as the world goes increasingly digital and the prevalence of online child sexual abuse expands, major tech companies are not doing enough to impose...
- Benedict XVI’s private secretary says it’s ‘inappropriate’ to rank popes
  
  According to German Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the personal secretary of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, it’s not appropriate to make a “papal ranking,” and acknowledged that the former pope has been...
- Sharing goods not communism but ‘pure Christianity,’ Pope says
  
  Pope Francis marked Divine Mercy Sunday in the Roman church Church of Santo Spirito, which was half empty yet filled with male and female prisoners from three local prisons, a migrant family from...
Catholic News Service
- Holocaust’s ‘righteous’ need to be remembered, too, survivor’s son says
  
  WASHINGTON (CNS) — The number of Holocaust survivors is dwindling but so, too, are those...
- Bishop urges unity to find solutions to violence after Knoxville shootings
  
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) — Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville offered prayers for a teenager...
- Sunday Scripture readings, May 9, 2021: The unbelievable and the impossible
  
  Sixth Sunday of Easter 1) Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 2) 1...
- UPDATE: Archbishop Hebda encourages prayers, peace after fatal police shooting
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — After a night of protests and vandalism April 11 in...
- Cupich: 30 years ago Cardinal Bernardin developed plan to address abuse
  
  WASHINGTON (CNS) — When Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago developed a comprehensive plan over...
National Catholic Register
- ‘Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better’: Religious Membership Decline Prompts Sober Reflection
  
  Neonbrand a young parishioner prays inside St. Thomas Catholic Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Church membership in the U.S. fell below 50% for the first time ever — what are the factors in...
- In Major Pro-Life Win, Sixth Circuit Upholds Ohio Law Barring Abortions Based on Down Syndrome
  
  Carol M. Highsmith The Potter Stewart U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the home of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Under the Ohio law, doctors face...
- California Lifts Capacity Limits on Religious Gatherings Following Supreme Court Ruling
  
  St. Patrick's Cathedral in San Francisco. The court majority noted in an unsigned order that the state’s “three households” rule did not apply as strictly to secular indoor gatherings, such...
- Pope Francis Hails St. Teresa of Ávila as Exemplar of Courage and Spiritual Motherhood
  
  St. Teresa of Avila. When she was nearly 40, Saint Teresa experienced profound changes within her own soul in contemplative prayer, and remarkable visions that seemed to come from God.
- Cardinal Bo: ‘We Need the Light of God’s Mercy in Myanmar'
  
  Robert Bociaga Olk Bon Myanmar people took to the streets to protest against the military coup Feb. 16, 2021. Hundreds of civilians, including 44 children, have been killed in the violence...