Every diocese, Catholic religious order and institution in the world must have clear safeguarding guidelines and procedures and that they are publicly accessible, the new guidelines reaffirm.
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
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Vatican to publish new document on human dignity, ‘gender ideology’ and surrogacy
The Vatican press office announced that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith’s declaration on human dignity, said to include a faith-based critique of “gender ideologies” and surrogacy, will be released April 8.
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Pope Francis at vigil: Easter marks the ‘rebirth of hope amid the ruins of failure’
“Let us lift our eyes to him and ask that the power of his resurrection may roll away the heavy stones that weigh down our souls,” the pope said in his homily on March 30.
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For the first time, Pope Francis washed the feet of only women at Holy Thursday liturgy
The 12 women whose feet were washed by Pope Francis included women from Italy, Bulgaria, Nigeria, Ukraine, Russia, Peru, Venezuela and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Pope Francis defrocks former Belgian bishop who admitted to abusing his nephew
Pope Francis has dismissed the former bishop of Bruges, Belgium, from the clerical state 14 years after Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation following his admission that he sexually abused his nephew.
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Pope Francis has not accepted an invitation to meet with Vladimir Putin in Russia
Pope Francis has not accepted an invitation to travel to Moscow in June to meet with Vladimir Putin, the director of the Holy See press office said.
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Pope Francis describes beauty of the Act of Contrition to priests and seminarians taking a confession course
Pope Francis wrote that “it is beautiful” when a penitent, reciting the Act of Contrition, recognizes that God is “all good and deserving of all my love.”
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Pope Francis tells grieving parents: It’s OK to ask ‘Why, Lord?’
In a speech read by an aide, Pope Francis told a group of grieving parents that the best response to grief is “to imitate the emotion and compassion of Jesus in the face of pain.”
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Pope Francis goes to hospital for tests as flu-like symptoms persist
Pope Francis went from the audience to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital for a checkup before returning to the Vatican. In November when he was suffering similar symptoms, he had gone to that hospital for a CT scan of his lungs.
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After meeting with Masons, bishop reaffirms Catholics cannot join
After participating in a seminar on the Catholic Church and the Freemasons, an Italian bishop reaffirmed that Catholics who belong to Masonic lodges are in a “serious state of sin” and cannot receive Communion.