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October 3, 2016

Gay, transgender people deserve pastoral care, pope says

Catholics who are homosexual, transgender or confused about their sexuality deserve the same attentive pastoral care as anyone else, Pope Francis said.
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Tolerance is good for society, the soul, pope says at Azerbaijani mosque

Pope Francis told the leaders of Azerbaijan religious communities that they share a responsibility to help people grow in faith and tolerance.
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When political choice is tough, pray and vote your conscience, pope says

Catholics facing difficult political choices must study the issues, pray about the election and then vote according to their consciences, Pope Francis said.
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The heart of leadership

How I wish those desiring to lead our country could take to heart the message Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis gave in his address at the August J.S. Paluch vocations seminar.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Red Mass, Archdiocese of St. Louis

Engaging our powers of reason and our will, natural law pulls us back from the precipice of imagining that there are no “self-evident” truths, nothing fixed, nothing objectively right and wrong.
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Our Back Pages: St. Mary’s Seminary opened 225 years ago in Baltimore

The Baltimore seminary that produced some of this nation’s greatest churchmen had its humble beginning 225 years ago this month.
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