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Cindy Wooden

Catholic News Service

Cindy Wooden writes for Catholic News Service.

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The tower of the Institute for the Works of Religion, often referred to as the Vatican bank, is pictured in this 2019 photo file photo. European financial crime evaluators from Moneyval began a regularly scheduled visit to the Vatican Sept. 30. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

European financial-crime evaluators make on-site visit to Vatican

Cindy Wooden|Sep 30, 2020|2 Min Read

The Chinese national flag flies in front of a Catholic church in Huangtugang, China, in this 2018 photo. (CNS photo/Thomas Peter, Reuters)

World

Vatican proposes renewal of agreement with China on bishops' appointments

Cindy Wooden|Sep 29, 2020|2 Min Read

Pope Francis delivers a prerecorded address to the 75th session of the U.N. General Assembly; the recording from the Vatican's Apostolic Palace was aired Sept. 25, 2020. (CNS screenshot/Chaz Muth)

World

Pope to UN: Respect for each human life is essential for peace, equality

Cindy Wooden|Sep 25, 2020|4 Min Read

Displaced people are seen in a file photo along a road near Goma, Congo. The World Day of Migrants and Refugees is celebrated Sept. 27, 2020. (CNS photo/Thomas Mukoya, Reuters)

World

Listening, adapting is key to assisting displaced people, speakers say

Cindy Wooden|Sep 23, 2020|3 Min Read

A priest blesses a couple during their wedding ceremony. The Vatican's Statistical Yearbook of the Church shows bishops and dioceses are implementing Pope Francis' 2015 reforms of the marriage annulment process, making it quicker and, in many cases, less expensive. (CNS photo/Juan Carlos Ulate, Reuters)

Faith

By the numbers: Statistics illustrate progress in tribunal reforms

Cindy Wooden|Sep 17, 2020|5 Min Read

Dominican Sister Helen Alford, vice rector of Rome's Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, gives an interview at the university Sept. 10, 2020. Sister Alford is the newest member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)

Faith

Catholic social teaching has values the world needs, Dominican says

Cindy Wooden|Sep 11, 2020|4 Min Read

People look over destroyed shelters following a fire at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos Sept. 9, 2020. The camp, which was mostly destroyed, was home to at least 12,000 people, six times its maximum capacity of just over 2,000 asylum-seekers. (CNS photo/Alkis Konstantinidis, Reuters)

World

Cardinal calls for resettlement of asylum-seekers from Greek island

Cindy Wooden|Sep 9, 2020|3 Min Read

Franciscan Father Francesco Patton, custos of the Holy Land, center, and others, are pictured in a file photo walking toward the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City. (CNS photo/Ammar Awad, Reuters)

World

Virtual pilgrimage, concrete donation: Holy Land Catholics ask for help

Cindy Wooden|Sep 9, 2020|2 Min Read

Pope Francis blesses a synod observer before a session of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment in 2018 at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Faith

Young people have lessons to teach the church, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Sep 8, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis greets religious as he leaves the hermitage and cell of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, in this Oct. 4, 2013, file photo. The pope plans to visit Assisi on Oct. 3 to celebrate a private Mass and sign his new encyclical on human fraternity. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Fall planning: No foreign trips for pope, but plenty of appointments

Cindy Wooden|Sep 8, 2020|5 Min Read

Pope Francis leads his general audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican Sept. 2, 2020. It was the pope's first public audience with pilgrims in six months. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Solidarity is the antidote to selfishness, exploitation, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Sep 2, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis and Maronite Father Georges Briedi hold a Lebanese flag as they pray for the country -- following an explosion in Beirut -- during the the pope's weekly general audience at the Vatican Sept. 2, 2020. (CNS photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters)

World

Pope calls for day of prayer, fasting for Lebanon

Cindy Wooden|Sep 2, 2020|3 Min Read

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