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Oct 15 2020
News
Vatican Holds First-Ever Sexual Abuse Trial for Clergy
The Vatican held its first-ever sexual abuse trial Wednesday with two Catholic priests. Twenty-eight-year old priest Gabriele Martinelli is accused of sexually assaulting an altar boy between 2007 and 2012 in a seminary in Vatican City. An older priest is accused of covering up the abuse. The trial comes as the Catholic Church faces ongoing criticism that it is not doing enough to battle
Democracy Now!Mar 15 2021
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Vatican says it will not bless same-sex unions, calling homosexuality a 'sin' and a 'choice'
The Vatican said Monday that the Catholic Church would not bless same-sex unions, in a statement approved by Pope Francis that threatens to widen the chasm between the church and much of the LGBTQ community.
Explaining their decision in a lengthy note on Monday, the Holy See referred to homosexuality as a "choice," suggested it is sinful and said it "cannot be recognized as objectively
CNN (Online News)Jul 25 2022
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Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school abuses in Canada
Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations in ways still being felt today.
“I am deeply sorry,” Francis said, to applause from school
Associated PressSep 19 2022
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Queen Elizabeth II eulogized as faithful servant leader in funeral viewed by billions worldwide
Archbishop Welby said the Queen modeled the servant leadership expressed in the life of Jesus, who was her Savior.
“People of loving service are rare in any walk of life,” he said. “Leaders of loving service are still rarer. But in all cases, those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten.”
The Westminster Abbey
Washington TimesApr 08 2021
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N Ireland leaders call for calm after violence escalates
Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britain’s exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance.
Crowds including children as young as 12 or 13
Associated PressFeb 24 2020
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Supreme Court to Consider Religious Rights Case Involving Same-Sex Couples
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court will consider whether the Constitution allows a Catholic organization to reject same-sex couples as foster parents in a city-funded child-welfare program, despite a local ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The case—a potential watershed for religious rights—pits the city of Philadelphia against Catholic Social Services, an arm
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 22 2022
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Dems urge Google to limit search results showing pro-life pregnancy centers they call ‘fake clinics’
Over 20 House and Senate Democrats have demanded the top executive at Google restrict search engine results showing pro-life pregnancy centers.
The lawmakers called pregnancy centers that do not offer abortions “fake clinics.”
In a letter to Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, the lawmakers wrote, “Directing women towards fake clinics that traffic in misinformation and
Washington TimesOct 12 2022
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60 Years Since Vatican II
Years ago, during a very brief meeting at New York University with the eminent English conservative Roger Scruton, I shared with him — an Anglican by tradition — my reservations about the Second Vatican Council and my interest in the old liturgy. He had no reservation in his analysis. He said more or less that the Catholic Church had “joined in the spirit of self-hatred and suicide” that
National Review (News)Feb 26 2020
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Caution, cancellations mark Ash Wednesday in time of virus
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated the Ash Wednesday ritual kicking off the Catholic Church’s Lenten season in traditional fashion, while other Masses in northern Italy were canceled over fears of the new coronavirus.
Francis and a long line of priests, bishops and cardinals processed through Rome’s Aventine hill into the 5th-century Santa Sabina basilica for the late-afternoon
Associated PressJan 29 2021
Analysis
Is America An Enemy Of Christianity?
Though the US has separation of church and state, we have long been accustomed to American Christianity being consonant with American patriotism. But close Christian observers of American life have wondered for the last couple of decades — at least in my experience — if and when the day will come when being a faithful Christian will require one to oppose the US government and the American
The American Conservative