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Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis' decision to convalidate the marriage of two flight attendants in the air sent waves of turbulence through the Catholic blogosphere, where respected canon lawyers and pastors raised serious questions about the pope...
Dialog reporter It's that time of year when the basketball postseason picture is starting to come into focus. The Catholic high schools are marching toward the playoffs, but they still have several key regular-season battles to go. Boys Tuesday St. Elizabeth (9-2) at...
Students from St. Mark's High School wore Eagles gear on Friday, Jan. 19 to show their support for the Philadelphia Eagles  prior to Sunday's Eagles game for the NFC championship against the Minnesota Vikings. The Eagles won 38-7 to...
Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY -- The idea of exceptionally ordaining older married men of proven virtue to celebrate the Eucharist in isolated Catholic communities is something that should be discussed, said Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for...
KINSHASA, Congo -- Security forces in Congo violently dispersed protesters who were demanding that President Joseph Kabila hold fresh elections. A spokesman for the U.N. Stabilization Mission said the organization had recorded six deaths, dozens of injuries and more than...
Catholic News Service ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PERU -- Pope Francis apologized to victims of clergy sex abuse, saying he unknowingly wounded them by the way he defended a Chilean bishop accused of covering up abuse by his mentor. Speaking...
"He said to them, 'I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for, I tell you, I shall not eat it (again) until there is fulfillment in the kingdom of God.' ... "Then he took...
Catholic News Service Eucharistic adoration has been a Catholic worship practice for nearly 1,000 years. Perpetual adoration, where the Eucharist is exposed 24 hours a day, is not usually done in individual parishes, but rather practiced by religious communities "and...

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It was Sunday morning in the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, and I was concelebrating Mass with the pastor. Almost all those at the Mass were Tz'utujil Mayans, sharply dressed in their Tz'utujil traditional clothing, women in bright colored woven...
Any discussion of the Eucharist as a sacrament has to address more than the reception of the Lord in Communion. It begins with understanding the Mass itself. Eucharistic adoration has been a Catholic worship practice for nearly 1,000 years. Church teaching on...

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