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Month: June 2020

Pope Francis gives his blessing to Jesuit anti-hunger projects in Argentina

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Although Pope Francis hasn’t visited his homeland since his 2013 election, he often gives signs that his heart still belongs to the country of his birth. Recently, he sent hand-written letters to two charitable causes sponsored by the Jesuits, the religious order to which Francis belongs.

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Two retired Catholic bishops test positive for coronavirus amid Texas surge

Posted by | Jun 30, 2020 | , |

CNA Staff, Jun 29, 2020 / 11:01 pm (CNA).- Amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Texas, four retired clerics, including two bishops, have tested positive at a priests’ retirement home in Houston.

“We ask that you please pray for all those impacted by COVID-19, and in particular for all of our priests,” the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston said June 29.

Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza Priest Retirement Residence was exposed to COVID-19 after a food service worker and an independent caregiver tested positive for the virus.

Among the infected priests are Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Fiorenza, 89, and Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Vincent Rizzotto, 88. None of the four who have tested positive for the virus have developed serious symptoms. Out of the 18 priests in the residence, 12 have tested negative for the coronavirus, and two have not yet received their results.

Texas is seeing as many as 5,000 diagnoses of infection with the coronavirus a day.

“Over just the past few weeks, the daily number of cases have gone from an average of about 2,000, to more than 5,000,” Governor Greg Abbott said June 28.

The surge follows loosening of restrictions in the state, but the governor recently closed bars again, and reduced the capacity at which restaurants are allowed to operate.

Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, told KHOU 11 that “We opened up the state too early, and we didn’t put in enough belts and suspenders to do it properly.”

The state had begun reopening in early May.

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Gorsuch Does Transgenderism: Notes on the Wreckage

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Hadley Arkes: Time to recall the role played in the past by America’s political branches, liberal and conservative, to narrow and counter court decisions.

The post Gorsuch Does Transgenderism: Notes on the Wreckage appeared first on The Catholic Thing.

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First Martyrs of the See of Rome

Posted by | Jun 30, 2020 | , |

In the first few decades after the death and resurrection of Jesus in 30 A.D., Christianity began spreading throughout the Roman Empire, and before long reached the city of Rome itself. Because Christians were at first considered by the Romans to be merely a sect of Judaism, they were tolerated, but the mysterious nature of […]

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How to Practice Abandonment

Posted by | Jun 30, 2020 | , |

How the New Testament Shows Christ’s Victory Over Satan“If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right way. In reality, holiness consists in one thing alone, namely, fidelity to God’s plan. And this fidelity is equally within everyone’s capacity in both its active and passive exercise.” Jean-Pierre […]

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