The Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama, has launched its own investigation regarding disgraced priest Father Alex Crow, who fled to Italy with a recent female graduate of an archdiocesan high school.
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Priest who fled to Italy with recent high school graduate to be laicized, says archbishop
The 30-year-old priest flew to Italy with an unnamed 18-year-old woman who is a recent graduate of McGill-Toolen Catholic High School in Mobile, which Father Crow also attended.
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Indigenous leader: ‘No conclusive evidence’ of missing student graves at residential school, but search for truth continues
An archaeological team found “no conclusive evidence” of human remains at the former site of Pine Creek Residential School in Camperville, Manitoba, Canada.
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Ukraine officially moves Christmas to Dec. 25 ‘to discard the Russian legacy’ of Jan. 7 celebration
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed into law a bill moving the official observance of Christmas Day to Dec. 25 from Jan. 7, when Moscow and the Russian Orthodox Church mark the holiday.
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Alabama priest found in Italy with young woman after fleeing the country
A young Alabama Catholic priest placed under restriction by the Archdiocese of Mobile July 26, has been located in Italy, along with an 18-year-old woman with whom he had fled the country days earlier.
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Alabama priest reported to DA for leaving the country with recent high school grad for an exorcism
The Mobile County District Attorney’s office is asking the public for information about a young Alabama Catholic priest who was publicly placed under restriction by the Mobile Archdiocese for walking away from his parish and reportedly leaving the country with a recent Catholic high school graduate for an exorcism.
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Pittsburgh bishop meets with LGBT Catholics after canceling ‘Pride Mass’ in June
Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik has been meeting with people in the LGBTQ+ community following a canceled June “Pride Mass” at a Catholic university, saying he hopes “to pave a path for LGBTQ people to feel and be more welcomed” in the church.
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New cardinal says October’s synod is not about changing church teaching
Days after his appointment by Pope Francis, OSV News spoke with Cardinal-designate Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., who shared his thoughts on his new role, the Synod on Synodality, and why both the synod and the National Eucharistic Revival are “just the beginning” of a fresh encounter with Jesus Christ.
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All 8 of New Haven’s churches merged into one parish, named for Knights of Columbus founder
A priest on the road to sainthood, who has united millions of Catholic men across the world, is drawing faithful together in the town where he first served.
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Dodgers’ faith night ‘not enough’ to make up for honoring ‘drag queen nuns’, some Catholics and players say
In a May 25 video posted to Twitter, Bishop Robert Barron, a former LA auxiliary, said the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence “can only be described as an anti-Catholic hate group.”