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    <title>National Catholic Register Bloggers Feed from Edward Pentin</title>
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    <description>Edward Pentin began reporting on the Pope and the Vatican with Vatican Radio before moving on to become the Rome correspondent for the National Catholic Register. He has also reported on the Holy See and the Catholic Church for a number of other publications including Newsweek, Newsmax, Zenit, The Catholic Herald, and The Holy Land Review, a Franciscan publication specializing in the Church and the Middle East. Edward is the author of &quot;The Next Pope — The Leading Cardinal Candidates&quot; published in July 2020 by Sophia Institute Press, and &quot;The Rigging of a Vatican Synod? An Investigation into Alleged Manipulation at the Extraordinary Synod on the Family&quot;, published in 2015 by Ignatius Press. Follow him on Twitter @edwardpentin</description>
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      <title>Papal Adviser Writes Lengthy Analysis of Pope Francis&#8217; Governance and Reform</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  For Pope Francis, governing and reforming the Church are matters of &ldquo;discernment,&rdquo; &ldquo;self-emptying&rdquo; and &ldquo;conversion&rdquo; rather than imposing &ldquo;prepackaged ideas.&rdquo;

They are also about creating the &ldquo;structural conditions&rdquo; for a...]]></description>
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      <title>German Synodal Path to Vote on Defining Fertility to Include &#8216;Same&#45;Sex, Other Couples&#8217;</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  Participants in the German Church&rsquo;s Synodal Path will cast a series of votes on human sexuality and relationships tomorrow, including one proposition suggesting that same-sex couples &ldquo;have the potential for a fertile...]]></description>
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      <title>Pope Francis to Resume General Audiences With Presence of the Faithful</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis&rsquo; weekly general audiences will resume with the presence of the faithful from Sept. 2.

In a statement, the Vatican said the decision was taken &ldquo;following health guidelines from the...]]></description>
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      <title>Pope Francis Marks 4th Anniversary of Italy&#8217;s Devastating Earthquake</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  VATICAN CITY &mdash; Pope Francis recalled the devastating earthquake that struck central Italy four years ago today by publishing a tweet expressing his solidarity with those hardest hit and telephoning the bishop of the region most...]]></description>
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      <title>Archbishop G&#228;nswein: Benedict XVI&#8217;s Illness Is &#8216;Subsiding&#8217;</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  A skin disease that has been afflicting Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is &ldquo;subsiding&rdquo; and he is on the mend, his personal secretary Archbishop Georg G&auml;nswein has said.&nbsp;

Speaking at a cultural event in the Black Forest over the...]]></description>
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      <title>Church Leaders in Lebanon Appeal for Aid in Wake of Explosion</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  The Maronite Catholic Church in Lebanon, along with Catholic aid agencies around the world, are appealing for aid after Tuesday&rsquo;s deadly explosion in the port of Beirut that killed 135 people and injured more than 4,000...]]></description>
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      <title>My Reasons for Writing &#8216;The Next Pope&#8217;</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  Unlike a typical election cycle in which ballots can take place every four or five years, conclaves can happen at any moment.

Dependent on when a pope dies or decides to retire, their timing is wholly unpredictable, occasionally...]]></description>
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      <title>Archbishop G&#228;nswein: Pope Emeritus Benedict&#8217;s Ailment Is &#8216;Not Serious&#8217;</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  VATICAN CITY &mdash; The health condition of Pope Emeritus Benedict &ldquo;does not give cause for particular concern, except for a 93-year-old man who is overcoming the most acute phase of a painful, but not serious, illness,&rdquo; his personal...]]></description>
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      <title>Moral Theologian Criticizes &#8216;Vague&#8217; Pontifical Academy COVID&#45;19 Document</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  VATICAN CITY &mdash; A former director of the secretariat of the Pontifical Academy for Life has criticized a document the academy issued on the coronavirus last month, saying that although some of its considerations were important, he...]]></description>
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      <title>COVID&#45;19 Has Changed the Way Europeans Go to Mass &#8212; For the Worse</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  In recent days I visited a number of churches in Italy and the alpine regions of Germany and Austria and was especially struck by how detrimental the reaction to the coronavirus pandemic had been to worship.

Whereas most public...]]></description>
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      <title>Chinese Infiltration of Vatican Networks Was No Surprise, Says Father Cervellera</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  Reports that Chinese hackers had infiltrated the computer networks of the Vatican, the diocese of Hong Kong, and those of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) in Milan over the past three months, came as no...]]></description>
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      <title>Why Did the Pope Drop Mention of Hong Kong at Sunday Angelus?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  VATICAN CITY &mdash; Pope Francis&rsquo; last-minute decision not to speak about troubles in Hong Kong at the Angelus on Sunday has caused a good deal of discussion in Italian media.

As usual, an embargoed copy of the Pope&rsquo;s Angelus address...]]></description>
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      <title>Funeral Held in Rome for Composer Ennio Morricone</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  ROME &mdash; A very private funeral for the popular film-score composer Ennio Morricone took place yesterday evening in Rome, the same day he died at the age of 91.

According to Morricone&rsquo;s wishes, his soundtrack to the 1986 movie The...]]></description>
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      <title>An Exclusive Interview with Composer Ennio Morricone</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  Editor&rsquo;s Note: This interview was conducted in Italian and translated by Edward Pentin. It originally appeared Nov. 9, 2009, at the Register and is presented here on the occasion of Morricone&rsquo;s death on July 6, 2020.

&nbsp;

Ennio...]]></description>
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      <title>Vatican Appoints Canonist to Look Into Communion and Liberation&#8217;s Lay Association</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Edward Pentin |  The Vatican has appointed a commission headed by an apostolic delegate to revise the statutes and directorate of the lay association Memores Domini &mdash; consecrated lay faithful who are part of the Communion and Liberation...]]></description>
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