Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:51:42 +0000
The Vatican’s former number-three, Cardinal George Pell, will begin on Wednesday his appeal against convictions for “brazen” sex attacks on two choirboys in the 1990s.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 07:14:43 +0000
If this three Catholic bishops would have it their way, they would prefer the Comelec to launch and finish its thorough investigation on reported irregularities in the May 13 elections first before proclaiming the winners.
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Credit to Author: Hilary Beaumont| Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 14:32:06 +0000
Owen James, founder of Ceu de Toronto, is expecting new members to flock to the church after it received an exemption from Health Canada to use the hallucinogenic drug.
Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 07:38:27 +0000
Thousands of Catholics attended mass in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo Sunday amid tight security to prevent a repeat of Easter bomb attacks that killed 258 people.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 21:34:47 +0000
Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles, the CBCP president, said that bishops and priests were not allowed to endorse candidates as this was “clearly partisan politics.”
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 11:50:55 +0000
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan Catholic officials say church-run schools that have been closed since Easter Sunday bomb attacks are expected to reopen next week, and Sunday Masses will resume this weekend if security conditions are appropriate.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 10:20:15 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-up by their superiors to church authorities, in a groundbreaking new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 11:38:38 +0000
BACOLOD CITY – Help the poor, the landless and the homeless.This was the message conveyed by San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza as Filipinos marked Labor Day and the feast of St. Joseph the Worker on Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 07:23:01 +0000
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The Catholic church in Sri Lanka says the government should crack down on Islamists with more vigor “as if on war footing” in the aftermath of the Easter bombings.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:53:30 +0000
The United Methodist Church’s judicial council on Friday upheld major portions of a new plan that strengthens bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT pastors.
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