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“College students from coast to coast are asking Pope Francis to reaffirm Church teaching at the Synod”, said John Ritchie, director of Tradition Family Property Student Action, referring to the upcoming Synod on the Family in October.

“The Gospel also shows us the truest reason for Mary’s greatness and her blessedness: it is faith”, the Pope told pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his August. 15 Angelus address, marking the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary.

This summer, bishops in Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio have held news conferences on the encyclical, urging political leaders to take up the pope’s call for bold leadership and pledging to reduce carbon emissions or water and power usage in their own dioceses. John Gehring,...

This summer, bishops in Iowa, Illinois and Ohio have held news conferences on the encyclical, urging political leaders to take up the pope’s call for bold leadership and pledging to reduce carbon emissions or water and power usage in their own dioceses.

He asked residents to hold their trash and recycling until the following week or deliver it to one of the city’s five Sanitation Convenience Centers, which will have extended hours from September 24 to October. 4.

Pope Francis has once again given the Catholic Church a welcoming face, rather than stern judgmental disapproval, saying divorced and remarried Catholics are “not by any means excommunicated” and that the Church should display “the heart of a mother”.