Lyon Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, 69, had offered to resign when the Lyon court in March 2019 first convicted him and gave him a six-month suspended sentence for failing to report the predator priest to police.
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Pope Francis tells scandal-marred Legion of Christ they still haven’t reformed
Pope Francis told the Legion of Christ religious order Saturday it still has a long road of reform ahead, making clear that 10 years of Vatican-mandated rehabilitation hadn’t purged it of the toxic influences of its pedophile founder.
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Legion of Christ vows better abuse response amid new scandal
The Legion of Christ religious order is promising accountability and transparency following damaging new revelations of sex abuse and cover-up that have undermined its credibility, a decade after revelations of its pedophile founder disgraced the order.
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Vatican sees intense interest in opening of Pius XII archive
Some Jewish groups and historians have said Pius, who was pope from 1939-1958, stayed silent during the Holocaust and didn’t do enough to save lives.
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Vatican police perform new raids in London real estate case
To date, Vatican prosecutors haven’t charged anyone. The pace and gaps in the case suggested the investigation partly involved a turf war in the Vatican.
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Vatican seeks to explain absence of Archbishop Georg Gänswein after book scandal
The Vatican sought Wednesday to explain the absence of a key member of Pope Francis’ protocol team following the scandal over a book on priestly celibacy co-written by Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.
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Conservative conference praises Brexit, Pope John Paul II
European and American nationalists gathered in Rome to attend a conference celebrating their beliefs while attacking globalism.
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10 years after Vatican reform, Legionaries of Christ in new abuse crisis
Following the AP story, the Legion announced on Monday it would conduct an investigation with the Vatican into the cover-up of the case, and vowed all superiors involved would cooperate.
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Pope Francis negotiates papal kiss after hand-slap controversy
Francis gingerly agreed to a nun’s request for a kiss on the cheek, but said he would only approach her if she didn’t bite.
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Pope Francis’ cousin takes star turn in Thailand as papal whisperer
Sivori, a 77-year-old member of the Salesian order, is an assistant principal at a Salesian school in Udon Thani, in northeast Thailand.