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The Justice Department plans to execute five people in the coming weeks. The planned executions pose a challenge to Attorney General Bill Barr's adherence to Catholic teachings, which oppose the death penalty.
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Federal Executions Pit The Trump Administration Against The Catholic Church

Dec 10, 2020
Opposition to the death penalty is "a teaching that deserves our respect," says Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley. "I don't think it can be simply disregarded."
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Archbishop of Washington Wilton D. Gregory delivers his homily at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on May 21, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Pope Francis named Gregory as a future cardinal this week.
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Archbishop Wilton Gregory Says 'Carry On' Work For Racial And Societal Justice

Oct 30, 2020
Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who will be the first Black American Catholic cardinal, talks about the historic nature of his position, the political issues that inform his work in the church and more.
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President Trump has paid far more attention to Catholics this year than he did in 2016.
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For Trump, Conservative Catholics Are The New Evangelicals

Oct 26, 2020
The president's campaign now realizes it was not white evangelicals who got Trump elected in 2016 but conservative Catholics.
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Cardinal Agostino Vallini, left, holds a relic of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, during his beatification ceremony celebrated in the St. Francis Basilica, in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday.
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15-Year-Old Computer Whiz Who Died In 2006 Could Become 1st Millennial Saint

Oct 12, 2020
Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who devoted his last years to the Catholic Church after being diagnosed with leukemia, was beatified at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi on Saturday.
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Las Vegas Diocese Adds Name To List Of Credibly Accused Clergy

Aug 22, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Church officials in Nevada say they’re following their counterparts in Louisiana and adding a Roman Catholic priest who was suspended in 2018 to a list of clergy members credibly accused of sexual abuse.

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"The person who files the report, the person who alleges to have been harmed and the witnesses shall not be bound by any obligation of silence" about sexual abuse cases against clergy, according to a new policy approved by Pope Francis.
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Pope Francis Ends 'Top Secret' Status For Sex Abuse Cases, Promising Transparency

Dec 17, 2019
The changes apply to cases of clergy committing violence or sexual assaults against anyone under their authority, as well as minors. The pope also changed rules about child pornography.
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Richard Malone has resigned as bishop of the Catholic diocese based in Buffalo, N.Y. During his tenure, the diocese faced intense scrutiny over its alleged mishandling of sexual abuse allegations.
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Buffalo, N.Y., Bishop Resigns Amid Controversy Over Clergy Abuse

Dec 04, 2019
Richard Malone had faced scrutiny for allegedly mishandling sexual abuse claims against the priests in his diocese. He announced Wednesday that the pope had accepted his request to "retire early."
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Marie Andrews holds a pyx, the vessel she uses to transport the consecrated Communion wafer to homebound parishioners. Andrews is an officially sanctioned Eucharistic minister in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Possibility Of Female Deacons Gives Some Catholics Hope

Nov 30, 2019
Pope Francis recently opened the door to the possibility of women as deacons in the Catholic Church. Some women have sought official recognition for the ministries they already perform.
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John Quinn, 67, first came forward two decades ago with allegations of sexual assault by a Philadelphia priest and said he considered waiting to sue.
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Clergy Abuse Reparations Are Closure For Some Victims, Resurface Trauma For Others

Nov 22, 2019
Hundreds of victims of priest sexual abuse have received reparations from the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. A new legal maneuver allows people to sue the church over old sexual abuse claims.
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Saint Augustine was among the saints who pushed some of the bans and policies that may have paved the way for a breakdown of extended family networks in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
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Western Individualism May Have Roots In The Medieval Church's Obsession With Incest

Nov 07, 2019
Researchers combed Vatican archives to find records of how ancient church policies shaped Western values and family structures today.
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Pope Francis walks in procession on the occasion of the Amazon synod at the Vatican on Monday. The pope opened a three-week meeting as he fended off attacks from conservatives who are opposed to his ecological agenda.
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Pope Opens Amazon Synod Amid Controversy Over Proposal To Allow Married Priests

Oct 08, 2019
Even before the synod began, traditionalists were angered by the suggestion that, to offset a shortage of priests in the Amazon, married men might be ordained to serve in remote communities.
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Karen Bradley worked at St. Clare's Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y., for 24 years. Along with hundreds of others who worked at the Catholic hospital, she has learned that the pension she was counting on for retirement is gone.
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'Why Is There Nothing Left?' Pension Funds Failing At Catholic Hospitals

Oct 03, 2019
The AARP has filed a lawsuit on behalf of workers at a defunct Catholic hospital in upstate New York, saying hundreds lost their pensions unfairly. And there are similar cases around the country.
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Eric Schmitt speaks to reporters after being appointed as Missouri's attorney general by Gov. Mike Parson Nov. 18, 2018, at the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo.
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Missouri AG Refers 12 Ex-Priests For Prosecution Of Suspected Sexual Abuse

Sep 13, 2019
An investigation that looked back to 1945 identified 163 cases of abuse. However, many of the alleged offenders are now dead or the statute of limitations on their alleged crimes has passed.
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A view of St. Peter's Square during a Pentecost Mass celebrated by Pope Francis Sunday. A day later, the Vatican issued a document denying gender identity is a choice.
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Vatican Issues Document During Pride Month Denying Concept Of Gender Identity

Jun 10, 2019
The document entitled "Male and Female He Created Them," laments what it calls an "educational crisis" around sexuality and reaffirming the church's traditional stance on gender identity.
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St. Patrick's Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, which has released a list of 120 clergy members "credibly accused" of child sexual abuse.
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Archdiocese Of New York Names 120 Clergy 'Credibly Accused' Of Child Sex Abuse

Apr 27, 2019
The disclosure from one of the largest archdioceses in the U.S. follows similar revelations that further exposed the depth of a decades-long abuse crisis in Catholic communities across the nation.
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José Alberto "Chepe" Idiáquez, a Catholic priest and rector at a private Jesuit university in Nicaragua, has become an outspoken critic of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
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'Pray For Me': Nicaraguan Priest Threatened With Death Reaches Out To Niece In U.S.

Apr 24, 2019
The private Jesuit university in Managua, Nicaragua, where priest Chepe Idiáquez works is one of a series of Catholic institutions that have been attacked, as the country's yearlong unrest continues.
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Catholic nuns participate in a healing protest in Manila in 2017, as Catholic bishops called for an end to killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war.
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Philippine Clergy Reports Death Threats As President Duterte Rails Against Church

Apr 03, 2019
Catholic Church officials who have criticized the Philippine president's deadly drug war say they are receiving threats and government surveillance.
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77-year-old Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati has stepped down as archbishop of Santiago, Chile. He is accused of covering up multiple claims of sexual abuse.
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Pope Accepts Resignation Of Top Cardinal In Chile

Mar 23, 2019
Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati faces charges of covering up multiple claims of sexual abuse in Chile's Catholic Church. Pope Francis has named Monsignor Celestino Aos Braco as a temporary replacement.
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Cardinal George Pell, seen earlier this month, has been sentenced to six years in prison by a Melbourne, Australia, court for the sexual abuse of two children more than 20 years ago.
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Cardinal George Pell, Former Vatican Official, Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison

Mar 12, 2019
He had been convicted of sexually abusing two choir boys in Melbourne, Australia, two decades ago. He is 77 and will be eliglble for parole in three years and eight months.
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Rosaries are sold by a vendor in Mexico City on Sept. 22, 2017.
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At Lent, Catholics Reflect On Faith As Sex Abuse Scandal Shakes The Church

Mar 10, 2019
On the first Sunday of Lent, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sister Joan Chittister about the holiday's meaning amid the ongoing abuse scandal.
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Pope Francis arrives for the opening of a sexual abuse prevention summit at the Vatican on Thursday.
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'A Life Destroyed': Survivors And Pope At Vatican Summit Address Clergy Sex Abuse

Feb 21, 2019
One survivor said a priest forced her to have abortions after raping her. The pope said he has come up with 21 "reflection points" designed to address the crisis.
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Theodore McCarrick, shown in 2011, has been accused of abusing minors and adults over a nearly 50-year clerical career.
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Vatican Defrocks Former Cardinal McCarrick, Finds Him Guilty Of Sex Abuse

Feb 16, 2019
Theodore McCarrick rose to power as a cardinal and archbishop of Washington, D.C. He became the most senior Catholic Church official in modern times to lose clerical status.
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Pope Francis meets Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prior to the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica on Dec. 8, 2015 in Vatican City, Vatican.
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'The Pope' Tells The Tale Of A Roman Catholic Church With Coexisting Pontiffs

Feb 08, 2019
In his new book, soon to be a feature film, Andrew McCarten examines Popes Francis and Benedict XVI — and how having two living popes, for the first time in 600 years, has weakened the papacy.
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The moon rises behind a church in the Pittsburgh Diocese, one of six dioceses mentioned in the massive report on sexual abuse among Pennsylvania clergy.
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For The Catholic Church, A Year Of Unending Clergy Abuse Revelations

Dec 26, 2018
The Catholic Church has been roiled by revelations about clergy abuse in dioceses across the country in 2018. It began with a Pennsylvania grand jury report in August that detailed decades of abuse.
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Pope Francis told a gathering of cardinals Friday that clergy who break their vows by sexually abusing children are similar to Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ.
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Pope Francis Tells Abusive Priests And Bishops To Turn Themselves In

Dec 21, 2018
Priests who sexually abuse children are like Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ, Pope Francis told a gathering of cardinals on Friday.

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