The announcement from Jeff Anderson & Associates included plans for the law firm to file suits in the Archdioceses of Los Angeles and San Francisco and the Dioceses of Fresno, Monterey, Orange, San Bernardino, Oakland, San Jose and Santa Rosa.
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Pope Francis begins New Year with apology for hand slap, prayers for peace
Pope Francis had slapped a pilgrim’s hand in an incident that quickly went viral on Twitter. Departing from his prepared text the next day, he said that “love makes us patient. We often lose our patience; me, too, and I apologize for my bad example last night.”
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Catholic, Christian, Muslim voices condemn knife attack on N.Y. rabbi
A host of voices from throughout the religious spectrum condemned the Dec. 28 knife attack at the suburban New York City home of a Hasidic rabbi that wounded five, one of them critically.
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Vatican magazine looks at women in the church in the age of Pope Francis
“Women and Francis” is the theme of the January 2020 issue of Women-Church-World, a monthly supplement to L’Osservatore Romano. It was released Dec. 28.
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Report: McCarrick fund gave more than $600,000 to clerics, including two popes
Though the majority of the $6 million the fund raised in almost two decades went to charities, many priests and more than 60 cardinals and archbishops benefited from it.
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Indian cardinal says religion should never be basis for citizenship
As India continued to experience violent protests against a controversial citizenship law, Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai said citizenship should never be based on a person’s religion.
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Mideast Catholic patriarchs pray for those suffering, appeal for dialogue
“The wounds of the Islamic State have not been healed yet, together with the ongoing violence, poverty, unemployment and poor services that have pushed thousands of people, especially youth, to demonstrate peacefully, demanding the right to live with dignity and freedom in a stable, secure and strong independent homeland,” Cardinal Louis Sako, patriarch of Chaldean Catholics, said of anti-government protests.
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Pennsylvania dioceses offer $84M to 564 clergy abuse victims
Lawmakers recently agreed to begin the lengthy process of amending the state constitution to allow a two-year window for civil suits otherwise barred by the statute of limitations, but there’s no guarantee that effort will bear fruit.
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Washington Post publishes Vatican report on West Virginia investigation
The Washington Post published the 60-page document on Dec. 23 on its website, which describes previously published accounts of alleged abuse and financial misconduct by retired Bishop Michael J. Bransfield, including “troubling incidents” that caused concern by some church workers that he may have targeted minor altar servers for abuse.