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The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.
Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, choosing an Italian nun
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OPINION: U2’s love affair with America was matched only by the band’s disdain for the country’s politics. This infatuation and outrage were all spun into a single whole by producer Brian Eno, and the result was “The Joshua Tree,” U2’s finest hour.
Bono: The most existentially American non-American
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OPINION: As a rabbi who has been involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue for decades, including in the past as a member of IJCIC itself, I find the committee’s claims about Pope Francis exaggerated and misguided.
Pope Francis' critiques of Israel's actions in Gaza are not misguided
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OPINION: Hope animates our care for creation; it is both a first step and a final reward, an incentive as well as an intention. Let us enter the Jubilee year preparing to make St. Paul’s words our own: “For in hope we were saved.”
Entering Jubilee 2025 with hope for our common home
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The conflict in the Middle East has negatively impacted the relationship between the Vatican and the Jewish community as Pope Francis attempts to take an impartial stance between Israel and Palestine.
Vatican decides not to put keffiyeh back in Nativity
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OPINION: As we prepare for the 119th Congress and the next administration, let us carry on with persistence, faith and hope, continuing the work to which we have been called — of trying what love can do to mend a broken world. If not us, then who?
Progress in the world, but still more to do
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The nation’s largest freethought organization published, then removed, an article by honorary board member Jerry Coyne who argued that transgender women tend to be sexually predatory. He and his fellow honorary members, Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, then resigned.
Freedom from Religion Foundation dissolves honorary board in spat over trans issues
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Pope Francis’ appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy comes at the same time as Washington prepares for a president who has made immigration a key theme of his campaign, just as Francis has focused on migrant rights during his papacy.
Cardinal Robert McElroy appointed to lead Archdiocese of Washington
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