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Pope Francis receives a gift from children during a Sept. 24, 2019, visit to Cittadella Cielo ("Heaven's Citadel"), the headquarters of the New Horizons Community in Frosinone, Italy. The community is a lay movement that engages in evangelization and service to the disadvantaged, including young people dealing with addiction. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters)

God loves, rescues even those in the ‘hell’ of addiction, pope says

Cindy Wooden
September 25, 2019
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Pope Francis slipped out of the Vatican Sept. 24 to spend the day with members of an Italian lay community, the young people in recovery they assist and tenor Andrea Bocelli.

Video segments play during the opening of the U.N. Climate Action Summit Sept. 23, 2019, at U.N. headquarters in New York City. In a video message sent to participants at the summit, Pope Francis said that while the 2015 Paris climate agreement raised awareness and the "need for a collective response," the commitments made by countries "are still very weak and are far from achieving the objectives set." (CNS photo/Lucas Jackson, Reuters)

Commitment to fighting climate change still weak, pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves
September 24, 2019
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The international community must ramp up its efforts if it expects to mitigate the negative effects of climate change, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis poses during a meeting with members of the Italian Catholic Union of the Press at the Vatican's apostolic palace Sept. 23, 2019. Journalists need to be able to distinguish good from evil and see how their reporting can actually shape the world, not just describe what has happened, Pope Francis said. Reporters can also help "unmask words that are false and destructive," and make sure their sources are credible, he added. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Help unmask fake, destructive news, pope tells journalists

Carol Glatz
September 24, 2019
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Catholic journalists need to be able to distinguish good from evil and recognize how their words can shape the world, not just describe what has happened, Pope Francis said.

Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, president of the German bishops' conference, gestures Sept. 13, 2019, during the extended Joint Conference of Bishops and Laity to prepare the "synodal way." The bishops of Germany, reacting to an independent study of the extent of clerical sexual abuse in their country and its possible causes, chose to initiate a "synodal" process that was not a synod or a plenary council. (CNS photo/Harald Oppitz, KNA)

German ‘synodal way’ is rapid response to abuse scandal, conference says

Cindy Wooden
September 22, 2019
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The bishops of Germany, reacting to an independent study of the extent of clerical sexual abuse in their country and its possible causes, chose to initiate a “synodal” process that was not a synod or a plenary council.

Dame Maggie Smith and Michelle Dockery star in a scene from the movie "Downton Abbey." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.(CNS photo/Focus Features)

Movie Review: ‘Downton Abbey’

John Mulderig
September 21, 2019
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Those who’ve been yearning for a fix of interwar elegance ever since the popular ITV and PBS television series “Downton Abbey” went off the air in 2015 can rejoice.

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