Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:53:59 +0000
ROME — Pope Francis has crossed the Tiber River for a visit to Rome’s city hall, paying homage to an ancient city that integrated diverse peoples over centuries of its existence.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:16:03 +0000
VATICAN CITY — The founder and all-female editorial board of the Vatican’s women’s magazine have quit after what they say was a Vatican campaign to discredit them and put them “under the direct control of men,” that only increased after they denounced the sexual abuse of nuns by clergy.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 05:15:26 +0000
ROME – The Vatican official who negotiated a landmark agreement between the Holy See and China on bishop nominations said Monday that the path to normalizing Catholic life in the country “is still long” but that a new future is now possible.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:46:54 +0000
Australian police said Wednesday they had charged a Catholic priest with indecent assault of a 15-year-old boy more than two decades ago.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:53:26 +0000
The family of a Vatican City teenager who disappeared in 1983 wants to know if she is buried in a cemetery on Holy See grounds.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:25:46 +0000
Pope Francis said Monday he has decided to open up the Vatican archives on World War II-era Pope Pius XII.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:46:56 +0000
Cardinal Pell has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys, the most senior Catholic cleric convicted of child sex crimes.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:03:33 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ summit on preventing sexual abuse was never going to meet the expectations placed on it by victims groups, the media and ordinary Catholics outraged over a scandal that has harmed so many and compromised the church’s moral authority so much.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:16:39 +0000
VATICAN CITY — Cardinals attending Pope Francis’ summit on preventing clergy sex abuse have called for a new culture of accountability in the Catholic Church to punish bishops and religious superiors who fail to protect their flocks from predator priests.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:04:41 +0000
The “pained admission” of Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle about the Church’s misdeeds during a historic Vatican Summit validates President Rodrigo Duterte’s criticisms on members of the clergy.
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