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Pope warns Church against closing in on itself
Reuters* Francis warns of threat of a self-referential Church * Urges faithful to go out to the "very outskirts" of the world * Mass marks Pentecost Sunday, viewed as birthday of Church By Catherine Hornby VATICAN CITY, May 19 (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Vatican City, Roman Catholicism, Francis I, Christianity
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WikiLeaks film shifts focus after Julian Assange won't share info
When director Alex Gibney began work on his documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," he thought he would be telling the story of a charismatic, silver-haired free speech advocate named Julian Assange, who had exposed dark corners of...
Tags: Computer Crime, Espionage Act of 1917, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (movie), Fort Meade (military base), WikiLeaks
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Disgraced Cardinal O'Brien to leave Scotland for penance-Vatican
ReutersVATICAN CITY, May 15 (Reuters) - Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien, who resigned as head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland after acknowledging sexual misconduct, will leave Scotland for months of "prayer and penance", the Vatican said on Wednesday. A...Tags: Vatican City, Roman Catholicism, Francis I, Christianity, Religion and Belief
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Disgraced Cardinal to leave Scotland for penance-Vatican
ReutersVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Disgraced Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who resigned as head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland after admitting to sexual misconduct, will leave his country for months of "prayer and penance", the Vatican said on Wednesday. A...Tags: Vatican City, United Kingdom, Benedict XVI, Religion and Belief, Abusive Behavior
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Banned priest not monitored
WHITLEY CITY, Ky. — Five years after church officials ordered the Rev. Carroll Howlin to stop functioning as a missionary priest in this isolated mountain community, Joliet diocesan leaders received a letter from a suburban pastor that illuminated...
Tags: Vatican City, Poverty, Banking, Colleges and Universities, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Former priest at Schaumburg church sued for sexual abuse
A former parishioner at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Schaumburg sued an ex-Roman Catholic priest and the Archdiocese of Chicago in Cook County Circuit Court on Thursday, accusing the former church leader of sexual abuse. According to the complaint,...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Schaumburg, Trials, Christianity, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
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Police investigating sex abuse allegations at Anne Arundel Catholic school
Anne Arundel County police are investigating sexual abuse allegations by a former student at Monsignor Slade Catholic School in Glen Burnie, officials of the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Wednesday. In a letter posted on the archdiocese website and...
Tags: Archdiocese of Baltimore, Police Investigations, Parochial Schools, Students, Glen Burnie
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Uganda priest ostracized for publicizing sexual abuse
KAMPALA, Uganda — He is a celebrity across eastern and central Africa, a gospel music star known to many as the "Dancing Priest." But for years he also was a keeper of painful secrets — his own and many others'. In going public, Anthony...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Roman Catholicism, BBC, Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Uganda
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Love to attend your wedding, but God said no
It's not surprising that the leading Roman Catholic churchman in Rhode Island is disappointed that the state has legalized same-sex marriage. But in reacting to what he called “this immoral and unnecessary proposition,” Bishop Thomas J....Tags: Roman Catholicism, Family, Social Issues, Same-Sex Marriage, Christianity
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FEATURE-Struggling Catholic schools strategize to draw new students
ReutersBy Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO, May 2 (Reuters) - For years, headlines about Catholic schools in the United States have told gloomy tales of falling enrollment and multiple closings. Between 2000 and 2013, 2,090 U.S. Catholic schools closed or...Tags: Loyola University Chicago, Hyattsville (Prince George's County, Maryland), Colleges and Universities, Immigration, Financial Aid
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Ex-Catholic has no right to Church job -German court
Reuters* Teacher had challenged dismissal from charity job * Quit Church in protest over sex abuse scandal, other issues * Court decision victory for Protestant, Catholic churches By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS, April 25 (Reuters) - Germany's top...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Good Friday, Labor Legislation, Religion and Belief, Separation of Church and State
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Joliet Diocese did not detail priest's past, hospital says
The Joliet Diocese acknowledges church officials allowed a Roman Catholic priest to serve as a hospital chaplain even though the bishop declared him unfit for parish ministry because of "inappropriate behavior" with a boy years earlier. The Rev....
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing Homes, Roman Catholicism, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Sexual Misconduct
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