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Bishop Michael C. Barber of Oakland, Calif., concelebrates Mass at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Jan. 31, 2020. Bishop Barber has called for the Oakland Diocese of hold a eucharistic congress June 19-20 at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. The congress is in response to a recent Pew Research Center poll showing that fewer than one-third of Catholics believe the Eucharist is the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

‘Shocking’ ignorance on Real Presence prompts eucharistic congress

Catholic News Service
February 13, 2020
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Fewer than one-third of Catholics believe the Eucharist is the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ, the Pew Research Center found in a recent poll.

Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, and Djebril Zonga star in a scene from the movie "Les Miserables." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is R -- restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. (CNS photo/Amazon Studios)

Movie Review: ‘Les Miserables’

Kurt Jensen
February 13, 2020
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“Les Miserables” (Amazon) has no connection to Victor Hugo’s classic novel of the same name other than its setting — the rundown Paris suburb of Montfermeil, where the poor still struggle and continue to distrust authority figures.

Jesuit Father George V. Coyne, former president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation and director of the Vatican Observatory, is shown in a 2009 file photo. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Father George Coyne, Vatican astronomer from Baltimore, dies at 87

George P. Matysek Jr.
February 13, 2020
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Jesuit Father George V. Coyne, a Baltimore native who led the Vatican Observatory as its director for 28 years, got his start in the field of astronomy as a young student in formation for the priesthood by secretly studying under his blanket, flashlight in hand.

U.S.-born Sister Dorothy Stang, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is pictured in a 2004 file photo in Belem, northern Brazil. The nun was 73 when she was murdered Feb. 12, 2005, on an isolated road near the Brazilian town of Anapu. She had lived in the country for nearly four decades and was known as a fierce defender of a sustainable development project for the Amazon forest. (CNS photo/Reuters)

Brazil remembers Sister Dorothy Stang; landless defenders still threatened

Lise Alves
February 12, 2020
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Feb. 12 was the 15th anniversary of Sister Dorothy Stang’s assassination in the Amazon region of Brazil. The U.S.-born nun is remembered as a crusader for the poor and the landless and for her love of the land and the Amazon forest.

Deacon Shainkiam Yampik Wananch prays in a chapel in Wijint, a village in the Peruvian Amazon, Aug. 20, 2019. In Pope Francis' postsynodal apostolic exhortation, "Querida Amazonia," released Feb. 12, 2020, the pontiff acknowledged the serious shortage of priests in remote areas of the Amazon, but he insisted not all avenues have been exhausted to address the issue. (CNS photo/Maria Cervantes, Reuters)

Pope says there is no quick fix for priest shortage in Amazon region

Junno Arocho Esteves
February 12, 2020
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Pope Francis acknowledged the serious shortage of priests in remote areas of the Amazon, but he insisted not all avenues have been exhausted to address the issue.

Copies of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation, "Querida Amazonia" (Beloved Amazonia), are pictured at a news conference for the release of the exhortation at the Vatican Feb. 12, 2020. The document contains the pope's conclusions from the 2019 Synod of Bishops for the Amazon. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope shares his ‘dreams’ for Amazon region, its Catholic community

Cindy Wooden
February 12, 2020
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Pope Francis said he dreams of an Amazon region where the rights of the poor and indigenous are respected, local cultures are preserved, nature is protected, and the Catholic Church is present and active with “Amazonian features.”

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