Pope Francis spoke with an abused woman who recently fled her home with her four children.
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3,000 child abusers have worked in the French Catholic Church, independent commission finds
An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes 3,000 child abusers—two-thirds of them priests—have worked in the church over the past 70 years.
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After Biden raises refugee cap to 125,000, Jesuit group calls on him to accept 200,000
The Jesuit Refugee Service has encouraged Biden to raise the cap from 125,000 to 200,000 to better welcome more displaced refugees.
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Pope Francis celebrates grandparents on first World Day for elderly
The pope urged people everywhere to reach out to older generations.
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Fires that destroyed 2 churches on Canadian Indigenous reserves deemed ‘suspicious’
Two Roman Catholic churches on First Nations reserves in British Columbia have burned to the ground in overnight fires, Canada’s national police force said Monday.
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Pope Francis on Myanmar: Houses of worship should serve as neutral refuge
The pope told the public gathered in St. Peter’s Square that he was joining his voice to that of the Asian nation’s bishops in also calling for humanitarian corridors.
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Italian nun slain by 3 teen girls ‘fascinated by Satan’ beatified as a martyr
An Italian nun who was stabbed 19 times more than two decades ago by three teenage girls apparently fascinated by Satan was honored Sunday with beatification as a martyr of the Roman Catholic Church.
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New lawsuit alleges former Newark archbishop abused 5-year-old girl
An archbishop of Newark groomed a 5-year-old girl by delivering food to her struggling family and regularly babysitting her, then sexually abusing her on multiple occasions in the 1970s, a lawsuit alleges.
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Vatican tells its employees to get a Covid vaccine, or risk getting fired
The Vatican is taking Pope Francis’ pro-vaccine stance very seriously: Any Vatican employee who refuses to get a coronavirus shot without a valid medical reason risks being fired.
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Europe’s oldest person, a 116-year-old nun, beats Covid-19
Whether it was the power of her prayers or her T-cells that did it, 116-year-old French nun Lucile Randon has survived COVID-19.