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By Mark Zimmermann | OSV News
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, acknowledged “the struggle” that is Haiti’s “reality,” but he assured an estimated 5,000 Haitian Catholics gathered in Washington that Mary “walks with us in our struggles” as a mother.
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Nicholas Roll with Aminu Abubakar in Kano | The New Zealand Herald
Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, a presidential spokesman said today, after 100 were freed earlier this month.
“Another 130 abducted Niger state pupils released, none left in captivity,” Sunday Dare said in a post on X.
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Rana Irby calls the book a corrective to an academic corpus that has far too often forgotten the nation’s 3 million U.S. Black Catholics.
Much ink has been spilled in scholarly and religious spaces addressing the intersection of race and religion, especially in the context of the United States. Largely left out of the equation, however, are Black Catholics. Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt, in her new book “Black and Catholic: Racism, Identity and Religion,” seeks to rectify that.
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by Camillo Barone | NCR
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Ronald A. Hicks of Joliet as the next archbishop of New York, marking a decisive shift in leadership style for one of the most visible dioceses in the United States.
Hicks, 58, succeeds Cardinal Timothy Dolan, whose resignation was accepted after he reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 in February. The appointment, announced today (Dec. 18) by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, ends months of speculation and places a bishop with a markedly pastoral and missionary profile at the helm of an archdiocese facing institutional and financial restructuring and deep cultural change.
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Pope Leo named Hicks the new archbishop of New York after officially accepting Dolan’s resignation.