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Doctrine of the Faiths Prefect supports single mothers through the sacraments, addressing Dominican bishops concerns

In a letter written in a pastoral tone, Card. Fernández clarifies that these women must "have access to the healing and consoling power of the sacraments."

The Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith clarified to a bishop in the Dominican Republic that single mothers are not to be excluded from Holy Communion.

“There are priests who do not baptize the children of single mothers because (the children) were not conceived in the sanctity of marriage. They are the hypocrites of today,” Pope Francis once said.

The Vatican’s doctrine office published a letter on Thursday confirming that single mothers can receive Communion after going to confession.

The prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith wrote the letter in response to an email he received from a Latin American bishop, noting t...

Whatever the mallepulpus’s moral stature, it would not allow its enemies an uneventful exit. Even as Jacob, dripping and shivering, urged the Abbess and the canonesses to back away from the shore, a portion of the swamp coalesced into a roaring and amorphous mass of silt and muck. With a noise like a thousand oxen breaking wind, the monstrous pudding detached itself from Paludis Cochlea, flopped onto the shore, and undulated forward, seeking to suffocate its parent bog’s tormentors.

This was the first time two auxiliary bishops in San Diego were ordained at the same time and is also the first time the diocese has been served by three auxiliary bishops.

Supporters met with Congressional offices to advocate for continuation of international aid

Father Michael Pham, 56, vicar general of the San Diego diocese and pastor of Good Shepherd Parish in Mira Mesa, and Father Felipe Pulido, 53, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Yakima, Wash., will be consecrated as bishops on Sept. 28.