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- Godfather Ban: Sicilian Catholic Diocese Suspends Naming of Godparents at Baptism for 3 Years
  
  Josh Applegate via Unsplash.com. A baby is baptized in Sicily.
- Vatican Launches Prayer Website ‘To Accompany’ Synod on Synodality
  
  Click to Pray 2.0. A website and smartphone app to help Catholics pray for the synod on synodality was launched Oct. 19, 2021. One way the Vatican has suggested that Catholics and their...
- Pope Francis Thanks Child for Impromptu ‘Lesson’ at General Audience
  
  Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Pope Francis’ general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Oct. 20, 2021. "Children do not have an automatic translator from the heart to life: the heart takes the...
- The Vatican Strengthens Ties With the Oldest Christian Nation in the World
  
  Vatican Media. Pope Francis meets with Catholicos Karekin II, the leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church, on Oct. 16, 2021. Speaking to a small group of reporters on Oct. 12, Sarkissian...
- Christian Aid Group Requests Prayers for Kidnapped Missionaries in Haiti
  
  Rotorhead 30A Morning sun hits the facade of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l’Assomption in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. The missionaries were based in the town of Titanyen, and were returning from...

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- Retired Pope Benedict hints at his death in condolence message
  
  WILHERING, Austria (CNS) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI has hinted at his death in a...
- We need to see the face of Christ in immigrants, says Phoenix bishop
  
  PHOENIX (CNS) — One family fled cartel violence in their small town in Zacatecas, Mexico....
- Freedom comes from serving others, pope says at audience
  
  VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis had a special guest help him illustrate the meaning...
- Colin Powell is recalled for priority he put on education, hard work, goals
  
  WASHINGTON (CNS) — Colin Powell once visited a Catholic high school in the Archdiocese of...
- Bishops call attacks on U.S. Catholic sites ‘acts of hate’ that must stop
  
  WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Oct. 10 vandalization of Denver’s cathedral basilica that resulted in satanic...
News from the Vatican
- Retired pope hopes to soon join friends in ‘the afterlife’
  
  ROME (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI has said he hopes to soon join a beloved professor friend in “the afterlife,” in a sign that the 94-year-old pontiff is not only accepting his eventual death but...
- Freedom comes from serving others, pope says at audience
  
  VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis had a special guest help him illustrate the meaning of Christian freedom: a young boy wandered onto the stage during the pope’s general audience and made himself at home...
- Call to prayer for the synod finds home online, in app
  
  Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, said in the process to create a more "synodal church," one where every member contributes and all listen to each other, "we are...
- Catholic health care must always choose patients over profits, pope says
  
  A person's wealth or lack thereof should not be the determining factor when it comes to receiving health care, Pope Francis said.
- Pope shares survivor’s letter pleading for clergy to face truth of abuse
  
  An adult survivor of abuse by a priest appealed to the world's seminarians to become good priests and to make sure the "bitter truth" always prevails, not silence about scandals and their cover-up.