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San Francisco archdiocese celebrates new ‘Mass of the Americas’

December 09, 2018

San Franciscans have celebrated the recently commissioned “Mass of the Americas” for the feasts of the Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Guadalupe at the archdiocese’s Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption. The liturgy is the first new Mass commissioned for the cathedral since it was dedicated in 1971. “The Mass embodies the way

Pope Francis to visit Morocco in March

November 13, 2018

Pope Francis will make a two-day apostolic visit to Morocco next year, the Vatican announced. Accepting an invitation from Moroccan King Mohammed VI, the Pope will visit the cities of Rabat and Casablanca on March 30-31, the Vatican said in a statement released on November 13. A detailed schedule for the trip will be released

Final HHS rule confirms religious exemption to contraceptive mandate

November 12, 2018

A rule finalising the religious exemption to the contraceptive mandate should be “the end of a long cultural war fight” over the issue and confirm that the US government “never needed nuns to give out contraceptives” to women, said the president of the Becket law firm. Commenting in a press call to reporters on November

Atlanta archbishop releases list of priests ‘credibly accused’ of abuse

November 12, 2018

Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta has released a list of the priests, deacons, seminarians and religious credibly accused of sexual abuse of a minor from 1956, when the diocese was established, until now. Atlanta became an archdiocese in 1962. In a statement published on the archdiocese’s website, the archbishop said on November 6 that he