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The planned destruction of the families, languages, cultures and traditions of the Indigenous communities of Canada through the residential school system was "genocide," Pope Francis said. In a news conference on the flight from Iqaluit to Rome, he also touched on his health, Germany's Synodal Path, and church teaching.
On his return flight from a July 24-29 Canada visit, Pope Francis denounced the
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- 'It seems necessary to make it clear that the 'Synodal Path' in Germany does not have the power to compel bishops and the faithful to assume new modes of governance and new approaches to doctrine and morals,' said an unsigned 'declaration of the Holy See.' Released by the Vatican press office in German and Italian July 21, the declaration said the Catholic Church in Germany could not 'initiate new official structures or doctrines in the dioceses prior to an agreed understa
Last week, I expressed concern that Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, had said in an interview that the pope did not understan...
A Vatican statement clarifies that the initiative underway in Germany "does not have the power to oblige bishops and the faithful" to "new ways of ...