U.S. and European Catholic Bishops Call for Strategy to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Globally - WASHINGTON—A joint declaration issued today by U.S. and European Catholic bishops calls for all nations to work together to develop a "credible, verifiable and enforceable strategy for the total elimination of nuclear weapons." ....Read More
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Pope: 'openness is necessary for a culture of encounter' - (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a video message to the Congress of the Scholas Occurentes which concludes on Wednesday in Jerusalem. The Congress focused on the theme “Between the University and the School, building peace through the culture of encounter.”.....Read More
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Bishop Barron’s Roadmap for the New Evangelization - ORLANDO, Fla. — The way we evangelize should grab the world by the shoulders and shake it out of its apathy, Bishop Robert Baron told a crowd of Catholic leaders Tuesday. Evangelization is especially urgent as the “nones” — the number of the population who do not identify with a religion, continues to grow, he said. Bishop Baron, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and well-known evangelizer for Word on Fire, addressed the crowd of Catholic bishops and leaders gathered at the Catholic Convocation in Orlando, Florida through a live video feed on July 4, the last day of the gathering. “We do have a fight on our hands, but the great saints of our Church have always loved a good fight, and we should too.”......Read more