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Survivors of clergy sexual abuse turn up calls for reforms from new pope’s American hometown
CHICAGO (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse amplified calls Tuesday for a global zero-tolerance policy from the new ...
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Richmond Catholic Diocese adds six priests to list of accused sexual abusers
The Catholic ... The diocese does not know where Nguyen is. Five of them worked for religious orders and one, Cassidy, was a diocesan priest who had been assigned to nine churches throughout ...
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Former parish administrator faces decade in prison for $700,000 theft from Florida parish
The former administrator of a Florida Catholic parish ... into a bank account called “Holy Cross Catholic Church.” The account was hidden from the Diocese of Palm Beach, police said.
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New Jersey Catholic bishop says diocese will no longer oppose investigation into abuse allegations
The Independent ... The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese said he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind ...
Thousands of foreign-born clergy working in U.S. at risk of being forced to leave
About 30% of dioceses, Spicer said, reported having at least one religious worker forced to leave the country because of the processing backlog, while more than half anticipated losing a worker within ...
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Pope Leo accused of failing to properly investigate allegations of child sexual abuse in his church
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent ... opening a formal church investigation into claimed sexual abuse carried out by two priests in the Diocese of Chiclayo ...
Commentary: What we can learn from a classical Tampa Catholic school
The demand in classical education models such as Tampa’s St. Thomas Aquinas Academy shines a bright light on what many ...
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What we can learn from a classical Catholic school in Florida
In Montgomery County, Md., a group of Christian, Jewish and Muslim parents hope the Supreme Court will vote to protect their ...
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Catholic Church Warns Of ‘Government Overreach’ With New State Law Forcing Priests To Violate Sacrament
The Archdiocese is warning the move is a violation of the separation between church and state and said ... is sacred and will remain that way in the Diocese of Spokane.” Ferguson’s office ...
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On the Role of Women in Church Leadership, Leo Has Followed Francis’ Lead
“Clericalizing women,” he said, would not “necessarily” solve problems in the church ... diocese had been led for nearly half a century by more conservative bishops from the Roman Catholic ...
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Canterbury tales: what happens next?
This week the number of confirmed members of the Canterbury Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) rose from 3 to 14 with only 3 ...
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Catholic Diocese of Richmond undertaking solar energy projects at schools and churches
The solar array at Immaculate Conception Church was the first of at least seven solar energy projects that have been completed or are being planned within the Catholic Diocese of Richmond ...