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IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Barb Fraze WASHINGTON (CNS) — The railroad runs more than 550 miles through 27 communities in the Brazilian Amazon. It runs so close to people’s homes that the houses have cracked, and some people have hearing loss. The trains carry minerals out of the rainforest …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace met with the country’s top diplomat, Rex Tillerson, March 23, for a policy-packed 35-minute conversation about immigration, the Middle East, Africa and the role of the Catholic Church’s …

By Junno Arocho Esteves ROME (CNS) — While documentation regarding an alleged miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Oscar Romero is being studied at the Vatican, there is no date scheduled for his canonization, the archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, said. “I must say, in all sincerity, that …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Toby Melville, Reuters By LONDON (CNS) — Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, whose cathedral is just a short walk from the scene of the London terrorist attack, called for prayers for the dead and wounded. “Yesterday’s attacks in Westminster have shocked us all,” he said in a March …

By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) — The head of the Franciscans hopes the order’s new website will have a certain “hip-hop” style — being very modern or “hip” and inspiring people to move, act or “hop.” Franciscan Father Michael Perry, minister general of the order, said the March launch of …

By LONDON (CNS) — Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, whose cathedral is just a short walk from the scene of the London terrorist attack, called for prayers for the dead and wounded. “Yesterday’s attacks in Westminster have shocked us all,” he said in a March 23 statement. “The kind of …

IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz ROME (CNS) — There is absolutely no excuse for not implementing concrete measures to protect minors and vulnerable adults from sexual abuse, said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston. “Let there be no doubt about it: Pope Francis is thoroughly committed to rooting out …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Rafael Marchante, Reuters By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has approved the recognition of a miracle attributed to the intercession of two of the shepherd children who saw Our Lady of Fatima in 1917, thus paving the way for their canonization. Pope Francis signed …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Mark R. Cristino, EPA By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Not listening to God’s voice can distance Christians from him and lead them instead to seek solace in worldly idols that offer only doubt and confusion, Pope Francis said. When Catholics are “deaf to the word …

IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As the Vatican Secretariat for Communication works to unify Vatican media efforts, a key pastoral concern is to keep open all the channels that allow Pope Francis to speak to the world. “With a pope who is so naturally communicative, …