Pope Francis and the Jews

by Michael Sean Winters

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Over at Commonweal, Michael Peppard reports on a talk given in NYC by Rabbi Abraham Skorka, who knew Pope Francis before he was Pope Francis.

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The Peruvian bishops' conference announced Aug. 14 that Luis Fernando Figari, the controversial lay founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, accused of sexual and psychological abuse, was expelled by the Vatican from the lay movement he established. (OSV News/Courtesy of Peruvian bishops' conference)

Conservative journalist Bermúdez bristles at dismissal from lay Catholic movement

A new national survey by the Institute for Sustainability & Social Justice at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., found that America's youth have high anxiety about climate change and little faith in the power of individual actions as solutions. (Dreamstime/Ritu Jethani)

Majority of US youth report eco-anxiety, Sacred Heart University survey finds

Franciscan Fr. Daniel P. Horan celebrates Mass in May 2012. Horan has announced his departure from the Franciscan order. (The Catholic Sun/Charles Wainwright)

Always a Franciscan in spirit, but no longer a friar

Daniel P. Horan

Devotees light candles at the St. Alphonsa Pilgrim Centre in Bharananganam in the Palai Diocese, southwestern India. (Thomas Scaria)

300 nuns spread out in Palai Diocese on 'home mission' to renew Catholics' faith

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