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A screen shot from "Woodstock," 1970 Warner Brothers, shows Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart Sister Susanne Bunn as a young nun and a Catholic Review recreation of the famous pose is shown in a 2016 photo. (CR file)

Another round with the Woodstock Nun

Erik Zygmont
August 14, 2019
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The fleeting image of the demure and habited nun furtively flashing the two-finger peace sign in the 1970 documentary “Woodstock” has floated softly through five decades now, a lasting if elusory symbol that touches on the historic music festival but ultimately alights someplace else.

Attendees enjoy a glass of wine July 26, 2019, at the Napa Institute's annual Summer Conference in California. Bishops, clergy, women religious and over 500 lay Catholics came together at the conference to discuss religion and the state of the church, to network and to enjoy fellowship with one another. (CNS photo/courtesy Napa Institute)

Religion, state of the church among topics at annual Napa conference

Catholic News Service
August 13, 2019
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The Napa Institute, founded in 2010, hosted its ninth annual Summer Conference in late July, focusing on the theme of authentic reform and the current state of the church.

Nearly 400 Franciscans pose Aug. 1, 2019, during a four-day gathering in Denver. It is one of the largest gatherings of Franciscans in the United States, with the purpose of friars getting to know each other as the process of the order's six provinces become one. The gathering took place July 29-Aug. 2. (CNS photo/Octavio Duran)

Franciscans’ Denver meeting first phase of making six provinces into one

Catholic News Service
August 13, 2019
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History was made when close to 400 Franciscan friars — from 25 states as well as Canada, Italy Jamaica, Mexico and the Philippines — gathered in unity and fraternity in Denver for the religious order’s “Chapter of Mats.”

El obispo auxiliar Mark Brennan (centro) se unió en su misa de despedida del 11 de agosto por el arzobispo William E. Lori (izquierda) y el obispo auxiliar Denis J. Madden (derecha). (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Baltimore despide al Obispo Brennan

Norma Montenegro Flynn
August 13, 2019
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Aproximadamente 300 personas, en su mayoría inmigrantes hispanos, expresaron su amor y gratitud por el ministerio del obispo auxiliar de Baltimore Mark E. Brennan durante una misa bilingüe de despedida el 11 de agosto en la Iglesia Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús en Highlandtown.

Auxiliary Bishop Mark Brennan (center) was joined at his Aug. 11 farewell Mass by Archbishop William E. Lori (left) and Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden (right). (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Baltimore bids farewell to Bishop Brennan

Norma Montenegro Flynn
August 12, 2019
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Approximately 300 people, mostly Hispanic immigrants, expressed their love and gratitude for the ministry of Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Mark E. Brennan during an Aug. 11 farewell Mass at Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highlandtown.

Pope Francis is greeted by a member of an indigenous group from the Amazon region during a meeting at the Coliseo Regional Madre de Dios in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, Jan.19, 2018. The upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Amazon is an "urgent" gathering, not of scientists and politicians, but for the church whose main focus in discussions will be evangelization, Pope Francis said in a new interview. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)

In new interview, pope explains aim of synod, warns against nationalism

Carol Glatz
August 9, 2019
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The upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Amazon is an “urgent” gathering, not of scientists and politicians, but for the church whose main focus in discussions will be evangelization, Pope Francis said in a new interview.

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