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The Atlantic: …A conference on “global fraternity” has featured rabbis, imams, swamis, cardinals, and obscure religious officiaries whose titles I had never heard before. …The assembled clerics, seemingly one of every type, were a sort of warm-up crew for the…

America Magazine: Pope Francis made history this morning when he celebrated Mass for more than 135,000 Catholics from many nations and cultures at the Zayed Sports stadium in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. It was the largest Christian…

Fortune: Pope Francis met with Microsoft President Brad Smith on Wednesday at the Vatican to discuss the ethical use of artificial intelligence [AI] and how to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations, Reuters reports. The Vatican’s Academy for Life, a research…

Just days after the pope signed the most important interfaith document in history; he had the opportunity to address global political leaders by video at the World Government Summit in Dubai. During his remarks he once again stressed the need…

Catholic Herald: 2018 has been annus horribilis for the Catholic Church. There’s no point mincing our words. The mere rehearsal of the major disasters would run the length of a volume. An exhaustive list of the missteps and failures starting or ending…

National Catholic Register, Michael Sean Winters: If the year 2018 in politics was dominated by Donald Trump, the life of the Catholic Church in this country in 2018 was marked by two major stories, one a reprise and the other…

ChristianHeadlines.com: According to the Washington Times, the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) submitted a proposal to the Vatican asking them to approve a translational change to the Lord’s Prayer. The committee asked that the verse “lead us not into temptation” be…

Reuters: The first visit by a pope to the Arabian Peninsula will take place in February when Francis travels to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the Vatican said on Thursday. The Feb. 3-5 trip, Francis’ latest to a…

KTF News – Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report Exposes Systemic Abuse by PriestsWatch this video on YouTube Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay Transcript of this video Source References I Am a Catholic Priest Who Was Sexually Abused by…

KTF News – Pope Francis in Geneva: Real Ecumenism Puts Christ Over DivisionWatch this video on YouTube Photo by Ashwin Vaswani on Unsplash Transcript of this video Source References Pope in Geneva: Real Ecumenism Puts Christ Over Division