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“I would never dare to give permission for this because it is not in my authority.”
| Pope Francis to a Lutheran woman married to a Catholic man who asked him what she and her husband could do to receive Communion together. The pope said he could not issue a general rule on shared Communion, but that the couple should pray, study and then act according to their consciences.
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Bishops call porn ‘mortal sin’
WASHINGTON — A draft statement on pornography to be considered for approval by the U.S. bishops at their Nov. 16-19 fall general meeting in Baltimore calls pornography “mortal sin” and urges Catholics to turn away from it.
“Producing or using pornography is a mortal sin that needs to be confessed in order for the person to receive God’s forgiveness,” says the draft version of “Create in Me a Clean Heart: A Pastoral Response to Pornography.” “Those who produce and distribute pornography harm the common good by encouraging and even causing others to sin,” it says.
The proposed statement noted, “Many people struggle with pornography use, including faithful Catholics, people of faith, people of no faith, married and single people, fathers and mothers, the young and the old, clergy and those in consecrated life.” (CNS)
Saints under 40
Journalist defended religious freedom
Blessed Anacleto González Flores was born on July 13, 1888, in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico. As a law student during Catholic persecutions in Mexico, Anacleto 
González felt compelled to protect the church. He was involved in social and religious activities and was an enthusiastic member of the Catholic Association of Young Mexicans. He taught catechism, did works of charity and wrote articles defending the faith.
In 1922 he married María Concepción Guerrero and they had two children.
By 1926, the situation in Mexico had worsened. Learning of the murder of four fellow young Catholics, Anacleto joined the National League for the Defense of Religious Freedom. He founded the weekly newspaper “WORD” and wrote for other Catholic newspapers.
He was captured on April 1, 1927, with two others, jailed and tortured. Refusing to give his captors any information, Anacleto González was condemned to death and shot that same day. He was 38.
Pope Benedict XVI beatified him as a martyr on Nov. 20, 2005. (www.vatican.va)
