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Vatican investigator urges bishops to report all suspected child abuse
May 29, 2024 9:37 pm
Kennedy, who works under Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, head of the DDF and one of Pope Francis' closest aides, said about 77% of cases that are reported to his office involved child abuse.
Pope will allow women to vote at meeting of bishops
April 26, 2023 9:51 pm
In 2021, Francis amended the church’s laws so that women could be Bible readers at Mass, serve at the altar and distribute communion — practices already common in many countries. But it does not go as far as some women‘s advocates had hoped.
He sees migrants as ‘modern slaves,’ and has devoted his life to helping them
October 03, 2021 11:43 am
The 17th-century religious statues are draped with posters calling for social justice, and the marble floor is crowded with mattresses and sleeping bags for the migrants sheltering there, who often gather around the priest as he makes his way around.
'I'm still alive,' says pope, 'though some wanted me dead'
September 22, 2021 12:52 am
Francis, who was elected pontiff in 2013, underwent colon surgery on July 4, and spent 11 days in the hospital.
Meeting Hungary’s strongman, Pope treads a fine line with an embattled leader
September 12, 2021 10:59 am
On Sunday, Orban will get a visit from the leader of the Roman Catholic world himself when Pope Francis drops into town to celebrate Mass.
Vatican probes alleged abuse negligence by Polish cardinal
June 27, 2021 9:13 am
A state commission investigating around 330 reports and cases of sex abuse of people under age 15 said this week that in around 30% of the cases clergymen are cited as the perpetrators.
Churches in Gujarat to go virtual for Christmas and New Year
December 22, 2020 9:05 pm
The church will also, similarly, hold the New Year Service virtually.
100s of accused priests living under radar with no oversight: report
October 04, 2019 2:30 pm
Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement.
‘It is not a closet. It is a cage.’ Gay catholic priests speak out
February 18, 2019 1:52 pm
The closet of the Roman Catholic Church hinges on an impossible contradiction. For years, church leaders have driven gay congregants away in shame and insisted that “homosexual tendencies” are “disordered.” And yet, thousands of the church’s priests are gay.
Chile announces wide probe into Catholic Church sex abuse
July 24, 2018 2:18 pm
The nationwide figures follow an avalanche of sex abuse and cover-up cases that have recently embattled Chile's Catholic Church and prompted Pope Francis earlier this year to publicly denounce a "culture of abuse and cover-up."
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