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Caption: Archbishop William E. Lori delivers the homily during his installation as the 16th archbishop of Baltimore at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore May 16. (CNS/Tom McCarthy Jr., Catholic Review)
Archbishop William E. Lori delivers the homily during his installation as the 16th archbishop of Baltimore at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore May 16. (CNS/Tom McCarthy Jr., Catholic Review)
Film revisits the many sides of Mexico's Cristero Rebellion

By David Agren
Catholic News Service

MEXICO CITY (CNS) -- Even as modern-day church-state relations improve, the impact of Mexico's three-year Cristero Rebellion in the 1920s on the Catholic Church remains widely debated in Mexican society.

The rebellion saw Catholic clergy and laity taking up arms to oppose government efforts to harshly restrict the influence of the church and defend religious freedom. In the end, the rebellion of the Cristero -- soldiers for Christ -- was quelled in 1929, leaving the church sidelined for much of the last century and its role limited to a pastoral concerns with no say in the public policy arena.
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Caption: Byzantine Catholic Archbishop William C. Skurla of Pittsburgh, Byzantine Catholic Bishop John M. Kudrick of Parma, Ohio, and Romanian Bishop John M. Botean of Canton, Ohio, concelebrate a Divine Liturgy with U.S. bishops from Eastern Catholic churches at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome May 16. Bishops from the Chaldean, Ruthenian, Maronite, Ukrainian, Armenian, Melkite, Syriac and Romanian Catholic churches were making their
Byzantine Catholic Archbishop William C. Skurla of Pittsburgh, Byzantine Catholic Bishop John M. Kudrick of Parma, Ohio, and Romanian Bishop John M. Botean of Canton, Ohio, concelebrate a Divine Liturgy with U.S. bishops from Eastern Catholic churches at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome May 16. Bishops from the Chaldean, Ruthenian, Maronite, Ukrainian, Armenian, Melkite, Syriac and Romanian Catholic churches were making their "ad limina" visits to report on the status of their dioceses. (CNS/Paul Haring)
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Editors: Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 42, No. 3 (May 24, 2012):

-- Americans are asleep to the threat hatred poses to its political and social institutions, warns University of Notre Dame president Father John I. Jenkins. "Can citizens of the United States learn to express their convictions in more skillful, more respectful ways?" he asks.

-- Benedictine Father Jeremy Driscoll of Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon offers a monk's reflection on celibacy in the diocesan priesthood.

-- Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, urges graduates of The Catholic University of America to pattern their lives after the self-giving love of Jesus and to be prepared to defend their faith.

-- The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops warns of an erosion of freedom of conscience and religious freedom at home and abroad in a pastoral letter that calls on Catholics to refuse obedience to civil authorities "when their demands are contrary to those of an upright conscience."
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