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By Valerie Schmalz, Catholic News Service - “Kids are hitting rock bottom with suicide and opioid use” as serial cohabitation and plummeting numbers of marriages signal the disintegration of a relational society, (Helen Alvare) said in a talk July 12 at the Napa Institute’s eighth annual conference in Northern California’s wine country… But there are signs of hope in the “huge growth of hashtags, movements … straining toward solidarity… There are opportunities for the church to narrow the gap between our current contemporary situation and the church’s gorgeous prescriptions for human love,” she said.

By Peter Jesserer Smith, EWTN News - Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, former prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments under St. John Paul II, has written a new book calling all Catholics, from pastors to the men and women in the pews, to rediscover the central importance of the parish in the Church’s New Evangelization... In this interview with the Register, Cardinal Arinze discusses The Evangelizing Parish, why he wrote it, and how the People of God can start to live it today.

By Courtney Grogan, CNA - “Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions. The first and second parts of the ‘secret’ . . . refer especially to the frightening vision of hell, devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Second World War, and finally the prediction of the immense damage that Russia would do to humanity by abandoning the Christian faith and embracing Communist totalitarianism,” wrote the former Secretary of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith Tarcisio Bertone.