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In this 2014 file photo, retired Pope Benedict XVI arrives for the beatification Mass of Blessed Paul VI celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Retired pope responds to criticism of his reflection on abuse crisis

Catholic News Service
August 27, 2019
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Responding to criticism of notes he published about the roots of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, retired Pope Benedict XVI said the fact that the critiques barely mentioned God proved his point.

Alex Kendrick, Shari Rigby and Aryn Wright-Thompson star in a scene from the movie "Overcomer." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. (CNS photo/Sony)

Movie Review: “Overcomer”

John Mulderig
August 26, 2019
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“If you want to send a message,” Hollywood stalwart Sam Goldwyn is said to have remarked — with regard to someone’s yen to make a “meaningful” movie — “use Western Union.” While telegrams may have been overtaken by more recent technology, the advice remains sound, as the faith- and sports-themed drama “Overcomer” (Sony), alas, proves.

Smoke near Humaita, Brazil, billows during a fire in the Amazon rainforest Aug. 17, 2019. Leaders of the Latin American bishops' council urged international action Aug. 22 to save the rainforest as massive fires continued to burn. (CNS photo/Ueslei Marcelino, Reuters)

Pope, bishops urge action to save burning Amazon rainforest

Catholic News Service
August 26, 2019
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Describing the Amazon rainforest as “vital for our planet,” Pope Francis joined the regions bishops in praying for action to extinguish the massive fires burning there.

Bishop Mark E. Brennan blesses the crowd below from a balcony following his installation Mass Aug. 22, 2019, in the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Wheeling, W.Va. Bishop Brennan, a former auxiliary in Baltimore, is the ninth bishop to head the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

West Virginians meet their new bishop as humble, holy man

Christopher Gunty
August 23, 2019
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People from around the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston already have a good feeling about their new shepherd, Bishop Mark E. Brennan, who was installed Aug. 22 as the ninth bishop of the diocese.

Bishop Mark E. Brennan enters the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Wheeling, W.Va., for his installation Mass Aug. 22, 2019, to become the ninth bishop to head the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Installation for Bishop Brennan focuses on light and service

Christopher Gunty
August 23, 2019
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Bishop Mark E. Brennan was welcomed Aug. 22 at St. Joseph Cathedral here as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which encompasses the state of West Virginia, in a ceremony filled with song and applause.

Friends and family attend the funeral Mass of Juan Velazquez at Our Lady of the Light Church in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 9, 2019, six days after he was killed in a shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. (CNS photo/Callaghan O'Hare, Reuters)

What all Hispanics lost in the tragedy of the El Paso massacre

Moises Sandoval
August 22, 2019
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Reports from around the country show that all of us, whether Mexican Americans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Central or South Americans or Caribbean peoples, feel less safe, whether our roots in lands now in the U.S. go back, as mine, 325 years, or whether we are recent immigrants.

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