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Word on Fire
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Catholic News Service
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Rome Reports
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Whispers in the Loggia
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Over the last two decades, some 5,000 men worldwide have been dismissed from the clerical state following a credible allegation of the sexual abuse of a minor. Only now has one of them once worn the...
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Eight months into the US church's latest round of abuse crisis, January's final hours brought yet another sharp curve, but one whose proactive nature on a broad scale makes it unique even at this...
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In a normal year, these days would see the Stateside church storm the nation's capital with bells on to carry out American Catholicism's most prominent act of advocacy in the public square. For the...
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Signed on New Year's Day and given to the US bishops late last night, below is the English text of the Pope's letter to the bench on the opening of its retreat amid the abuse crisis at Chicago's...
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Before all else, a Blessed New Year to one and all – hope you've had a great rest; Lord knows some of us could use a good bit more.... Either way, here we go again. * * * Eight decades...
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HOMILY OF POPE FRANCIS THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD THE MASS IN THE HOLY NIGHT SAINT PETER'S BASILICA 24 DECEMBER 2018 Joseph with Mary his spouse, went up “to the city of David called Bethlehem” (Lk 2:4)
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More than at any other point in our lifetimes, this Church has needed the Light of a Child to guide – and indeed, redeem – it... ...and not soon enough, that's the Coming we celebrate tonight. To one...
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Catholic News Service
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Chris Sheridan, Catholic New York By Beth Griffin NEW YORK (CNS) -- In a robust demonstration that actions speak louder than words, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan Feb. 18...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey By Paul Jeffrey KALOOKAN, Philippines (CNS) -- A Catholic bishop in the Philippines said his government's controversial war on drugs is really a war against the...
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IMAGE: CNS By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Twisted ideas of power and authority in the Catholic Church have contributed to the clerical sexual abuse crisis, leaders of religious orders said...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When presented with an accusation that a priest has sexually abused a child, "whether it's criminal or malicious complicity and...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Vatican's removal from the priesthood of Theodore E. McCarrick "is a clear signal that abuse will not be tolerated," said the...
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IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has confirmed the removal from the priesthood of Theodore E. McCarrick, the 88-year-old former cardinal and archbishop of...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholic bishops near the U.S.-Mexico border, joined by other U.S. prelates, voiced opposition immediately after...
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National Catholic Register
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By Tito Edwards | Sins of Omission: The Abusive Pennsylvania Clergy Abuse Report ☩ Paul Kengor, Ph.D., of Crisis Magazine +1 Do You Know Priests Who are Struggling, Under Attack? Terrific...
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By Elizabeth Anderson | Puffy figures run about The frozen snow that lies without They charge across the white washed yard To sled the hill with ice turn'd hard Little legs in chubby...
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By Winston Elliott III | Genesis 2:18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone…” This is the first time in Sacred Scripture that our Lord says anything in creation is...
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By Edward Pentin | Cardinal Raymond Burke and Cardinal Walter Brandmüller have written an open letter to the presidents of bishops’ conferences attending this week’s Vatican summit on clerical...
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza | As the sex-abuse summit convenes Thursday in Rome, Pope Francis, for the sixth time in six years, will attempt to accelerate the pace and reach of the Church’s...
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By Vincent Weaver | Rainbows are awe-inspiring. Whenever they appear, they make you take notice. Why is that? Put simply, it’s because they’re beautiful. They’re beautiful not because they blend or...
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By Fr. George Rutler | Like the optimist who sees a glass of water half-full and the pessimist who sees it half-empty, people assess the times in which they live by their personality. Each age has...
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News from the Vatican
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Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Australia says abuse summit's action items will be the gauge of its success.
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The Major Superiors of Religious Orders and Congregations around the world have issued a statement calling the abuse of children “wrong anywhere and anytime.”
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12-year-old Genesis Butler is in Rome requesting to meet with Pope Francis about her campaign that he go vegan for Lent.
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The Vatican says a Holy See lawyer who appeared on a list of American priests credibly accused of sexual abuse isn't currently at the Catholic Church's supreme court, where he holds a top position.
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The organizers of Pope Francis's summit on preventing clergy sex abuse will meet this week with a dozen abuse victims who have descended on Rome to protest the Catholic Church's response to the...
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