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Taking the Catholic Pulse
- ‘Techie teen’, mountaineer to get halos during jubilee year
Pope Francis during his weekly general audience announced the canonization dates of two of the Catholic Church’s most popular young saints-in-the-making: the “techie teen” Carlo Acutis, and outdoorsman and activist Piero Giorgio Frassati.
- Pope and Ukrainian Major Archbishop mark 1000 days of Russian invasion
Marking the 1,000th day after Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Pope Francis calls for peace.
- Survivors and safeguarding experts call on Vatican to remove all abusers
Over 20 years after the Catholic Church in the United States imposed a “one strike, you’re out” policy on clerical sexual abuse, a group of safeguarding experts is calling on the Vatican to impose the policy on the worldwide Church.
- Myanmar church can be helped with Synodality, Japanese cardinal-elect says
According to Japanese Cardinal-elect Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo, the political situation in Myanmar “is still not stable,” when marking Myanmar Day on Nov. 17.
- Priest disputes Pope Francis’ legitimacy: laicized: Last week in the Church with John Allen Jr.
Priest disputes Pope Francis' legitimacy: laicized. Controversial priest defrocked a second time. Women’s branch of SCV also entrenched in abuse? Vatican’s Christmas tree stokes eco-protest. Conman busted for impersonating Vatican prelate.