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God's plan for fruitful, everlasting unions between a man and woman has been lost in a world filled with skepticism, distrust and hostility, Pope Francis said.

The Mass marked the anniversary of the consecration of the cathedral's altar.

For Pope Francis, safeguarding creation by protecting plants and animals, or by ensuring the air, water and land will support human life for generations to come is only part of the task.

ROME (CNS) — More than a half century after a group of bishops at the Second Vatican Council made a solemn pledge to live a simple lifestyle close to their people, a group of participants from the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon signed a new pact in the Catacombs of Domitilla.

Deacon Reed Santa who spent 18 years as a deacon serving parishes in Mesa, died at the age of 89.

Parents are the primary catechists of their children, but surrounding them with godparents and other role models and resources from the get-go can yield great fruit as two diocesan families with young children are finding out.

Ongoing refurbishment of the National Mall and strict new regulations that require temporary flooring to protect the grass, moved the rally from the West Front of the Capitol to the Washington Monument grounds.

The Order of Carmelites and St. Agnes Parish are among those across Arizona who spent Thanksgiving Eve offering gratitude for the life of Fr. Charles Kurgan.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Australian Cardinal George Pell said the final report of the Synod of Bishops on the family did not create an opening for the divorced and civilly remarried to receive Communion. “The text has certainly been significantly misunderstood,” Cardinal Pell, prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy, told Catholic News Service Oct. 25.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The cross serves as a warning to the powerful and a message of hope for the poor and oppressed, said the preacher of the papal household.