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A professor of theology at The Catholic University of America was announced as the new head of cultural outreach at the Department for Homeland Security’s Office for Partnership and Engagement.

The Syriac Catholic Church has become the first Eastern Church sui iuris to initiate a process to depose its patriarch, following the promulgation of canonical reforms by Pope Leo XIV on Aug. 29.

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Austria’s largest Catholic women’s organization urged the country’s bishops Tuesday to open the role of bishops’ conference general secretary to lay people.

When presidents of bishops’ conferences and Eastern Catholic patriarchs gather in Rome next month to discuss Amoris laetitia, their meeting will have been organized largely by the Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.

But the meeting is not a synod. And its thematic framework was originally published by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life.

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