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Bishop Roger Coffi Anoumou of the Diocese of Lokossa in Benin represented the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) at the second African Climate Summit on Sept. 7-8, 2025, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. / Credit: SECAM ACI Africa, Sep 10, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Members of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences…
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I have always loved the melody of Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence.” Haunting yet inviting, it stirs something within me. Perhaps it’s not only the music that captivates me but the theme of the song itself: silence. Like the music, which evokes opposing feelings of caution and longing, silence, too, can produce opposite…
The word of the day for Catholics is “unity.” For the sake of it, entire congregations are ghettoized (TLM), bishops exiled (Strickland), faculties gutted (Sacred Heart), and dioceses fractured (Charlotte). Strange to think that the peculiar synodality project is more or less based on giving every wayward lifestyle and viewpoint a podium but the faithful…
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Bishop Simon Peter Engurait was installed on Sept. 5, 2025, as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux in Louisiana during a ceremony at Nicholls State University. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 9, 2025 / 14:14 pm (CNA). Bishop Simon Peter Engurait was ordained last week,…
St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. / Credit: travelview/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 9, 2025 / 14:53 pm (CNA). After the Archdiocese of New Orleans increased its settlement offer to clergy sexual abuse claimants from $180 million to $230 million on Sept. 8, attorneys of the victims urged their clients to accept the deal. The archdiocese…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. / Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 9, 2025 / 15:23 pm (CNA). The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, said violence in the Gaza Strip is the result of years of dehumanizing rhetoric and called for the replacement of hateful language with speech that opens horizons and…
