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For over a decade, Ellie Hidalgo has been campaigning to expand the role of women in the Catholic Church. The Miami woman is co-director of a nonprofit, Discerning Deacons, which invites other Catholics to consider ordaining women as deacons, a clergy role that has always been opened to married men. That would allow women, for…

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The leader of the Catholic Church said lust isn’t the most serious of the seven deadly sins.

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Vatican City State recently stated that it will be mandatory for all employees to show documentation of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test.

Lent is the six week period leading up to Easter and is a particularly important time for many Christians around the world, particularly those within the Catholic tradition. Christians around the world observe Lent in different ways, with many choosing to give up things in order to refocus their faith. This year, Pope Francis made…

Pope Francis’ longtime atheist friend and interviewer, Eugenio Scalfari says that the Pope told him that once Jesus Christ became incarnate, he was a “man of exceptional virtues” but “not at all God” according to an October edition of La República, a Peruvian newspaper. This would go against the teaching of not only the Catholic…

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