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Pope Francis stops to pray before an image of Our Lady and the Child Jesus during his weekly general audience on Jan. 11, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAVatican City, Jan 11, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA).We do not have to be perfect already to live in a way that gives witness to Christ and attracts others to him, Pope Francis said on Wednesday.At his weekly public audience on Jan. 11, Francis reflected on Jesus calling of St. Matthew, then a tax collector, to follow him as one of his 12 apostles."Here i...

Pope Francis receives Cardinal George Pell in a private audience at the Vatican Oct. 12, 2020. / Vatican Media.Rome Newsroom, Jan 11, 2023 / 05:32 am (CNA).Pope Francis has praised the witness, dedication, and faith of Cardinal George Pell, who died in Rome on Tuesday at the age of 81."I offer sentiments of heartfelt condolence," the pope said in a Jan. 11 message, "remembering with a grateful heart his consistent and committed witness, his dedication to the Gospel and the Church,...

Community activists have begun a campaign to place thousands of signs across the city quoting the sixth commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." / WTOPWashington D.C., Jan 10, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA)."My family is shattered. My heart is broken," a Washington, D.C., mother told local news channel NBC4 just after her teenage son was fatally shot last November. The 15-year-old boy was one of a record-high number of teens killed in 2022 in Washington, D.C., according to the Metropo...

Jesús Muñoz and his son Benjamin began their 310-mile journey from Neuquén to Las Ovejas, Argentina, on Jan. 7, 2023. / Credit: Claudio Espinoza/LM NeuquénCNA Newsroom, Jan 9, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Accompanied by his 13-year-old son, Jesús Muñoz is traveling 500 kilometers (310 miles) on horseback to fulfill a promise made to St. Sebastian 20 years ago, when he began his university studies.As a young man Jesús Muñoz traveled from his Argentina hometown of Las Ovejas to study in Neuquén,...

National Congress of Brazil / Credit: ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, Jan 9, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).The Catholic bishops of Brazil condemned the violent seizure on Jan. 8 of Congress, the presidents office, and the Supreme Court in Brasilia, the countrys capital.According to Globo TV, these three branches of the Brazilian government are already under the control of law enforcement. There are also dozens of detainees."The National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), disconcerted by the serious ...

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Pope Francis blesses a young woman during a general audience in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall in December 2022. / Vatican Media.Rome Newsroom, Jan 10, 2023 / 05:00 am (CNA).Sickness and vulnerability is scary because it is a threat to the culture of efficiency, Pope Francis said on Tuesday, in a message published ahead of the World Day of the Sick."We are rarely prepared for illness. Oftentimes, we fail even to admit that we are getting older," the pope said Jan. 10. "Our vulner...

Null / Goran Bogicevic/Shutterstock.Denver, Colo., Jan 9, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).The percentage of Americans who attend religious services is now "significantly lower" than before the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among young people and other groups identified as less likely to regularly attend, a new survey indicates."The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted much of American society, including religious worship," said a January 2023 report on the survey "Faith After the Pandemic&...

A male Border Patrol agent in La Joya, Texas, speaks in November 2021 with a Honduran man holding his daughter and waiting to be transported to a processing center after turning himself in to seek asylum. / ShutterstockWashington D.C., Jan 8, 2023 / 09:48 am (CNA).On the eve of President Joe Bidens scheduled Sunday visit to the U.S.-Mexico border to meet with local officials and border enforcement agents, the U.S. Catholic bishops announced their opposition to the administrations recent crackdow...

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