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Around 10 thousand people gathered in St. Peter's Square to listen to the Pope's Sunday message and later pray the Angelus with him Photo: Vatican Media

Local Church

All Africa responds unanimously to Rome: no blessing of same-sex couples

The Episcopal Conferences of all Africa, which have firmly reaffirmed their communion with Pope Francis, believe that the extra-liturgical blessings proposed in the Fiducia supplicans Declaration cannot be carried out in Africa without exposing themselves to scandal. They remind, as Fiducia supplicans clearly does, the clergy, religious communities, all believers and people of good will, that the Church’s teaching on Christian marriage and sexuality remains unchanged.

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A saintly samurai: progress and hopes for the canonization of the «Samurai of Christ

The possible canonization would be a significant milestone, marking Ukon as the first Japanese samurai to be declared a saint. The Church anxiously awaits the results of investigations into the miracles attributed to his intercession, in the hope that this «samurai of Christ» will soon become a saint officially recognized by the Catholic Church.