Pope Francis is visiting a famous shrine and saying Mass on his second day in Ireland after meeting with victims of clerical sex abuse and other abuses committed by Catholic officials and institutions.
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Pope Francis faces a struggle this weekend to reinvigorate Ireland’s confidence in the Catholic Church, in the face of multiple abuse scandals and a new generation shedding traditional mores.
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Police in northwest Indiana say an attack on a Catholic priest has been forwarded to the FBI as a possible hate crime because the assailant referred to reports of clergy sex abuse involving children.
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The Vatican said Tuesday that Pope Francis is expected to meet with victims of sexual abuse during his weekend visit to Ireland and speak out about the problem.
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Pope Francis issued a letter to Catholics around the world Monday condemning the “crime” of priestly sexual abuse and its cover-up and demanding accountability, in response to new revelations in the United States of decades of misconduct by the Catholic Church.
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Pope Francis has changed church teaching about the death penalty, saying it can never be sanctioned because it “attacks” the inherent dignity of all humans.
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Read morePOPE Francis has appointed BISHOP Jose Elmer Mangalinao as the new head of the Diocese of Bayombong in Nueva Vizcaya. Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, read Pope Francis’ appointment letter to Mangalinao who was installed at the Cathedral of Saint Dominic. The Cabanatuan-born Mangalinao, who was auxiliary bishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, will […]
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Pope Francis is criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration policy, telling a news reporter earlier this week that he agrees with US Catholic bishops that separating children from their parents at a border is “immoral.”
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The Vatican’s Swiss Guards are getting a place of honor in Pope Francis’ upcoming day trip to their native Switzerland.
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The Vatican’s top abuse investigator arrived in Chile on Tuesday, a day after Pope Francis accepted the resignation of three bishops from the scandal-wracked Chilean Church.
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