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Pope Francis summarizes the preface to the book "As Jesus Taught Us: The Prayer of the Pilgrims of Hope" (Edizioni San Paolo), which will be published on the morning of Wednesday, October 9. The text is a compilation of Reflections on prayer, some unpublished

(Vatican News)

I learned to pray from my grandmother. She is the one who taught me to pray and also instilled in me a devotion to Saint Joseph. Then, the spiritual fathers I had, both in the seminary and in the Society of Jesus, helped me grow in my experience of prayer








				
				
							

					

	




			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


			
				


	

		

			

								
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Pope Francis responds to critics of comments he made in Belgium about women





(CNA Staff).





Aboard the papal plane to Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis responded to criticism of remarks he made about women during a Sept. 28 visit to a Catholic university in Louvain, Belgium, saying it is an “obtuse mind” that intentionally misunderstands his position.





In a meeting with students of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Francis reflected at length on the role of women in the Church, saying: “What characterizes women, that which is truly feminine, is not stipulated by consensus or ideologies, just as dignity itself is ensured not by laws written on paper, but by an original law written on our hearts.”



				
				
							

					

	




			
				


			
				


	

		

			

				
				
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Pope Francis meets with women ministry advocates ahead of the synod opening





(Christopher White. National Catholic Reporter)





Just days before presiding over the start of the major monthlong summit on the future of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis on Sept. 30 met with a global delegation of women’s ministry advocates, including leading proponents for restoring the female diaconate



				
				
							

					

	




			
				


	

		

			

				
				
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On the ambivalence of ‘journalistic malpractice,’ and a note on Crux reporting





(John L. Allen Jr.. Crux)





(Pope Francis this week approved the expulsions of ten members of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV), a controversial Peruvian lay movement, over various charges of misconduct, including one sanctioned in part for the novel offense of what might loosely be called “journalistic malpractice.”



				
				
							

					

	




			
				


			
				


	

		

			

				
				
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Belgian Catholic university denounces visiting pope’s views on women after he digs in on their role





(NICOLE WINFIELD and RAF CASERT. AP News)





Pope Francis’ burdensome trip through Belgium reached new lows on Saturday when defiant Catholic university women demanded to his face a “paradigm change” on women’s issues in the church and then expressed deep disappointment when Francis dug in