Advocates of ordaining women as Roman Catholic priests cite the church’s unfolding sex abuse scandals as powerful arguments for their cause, while acknowledging the high unlikelihood of achieving their goal anytime soon.
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Iowa slaying focuses attention on immigrants in agriculture
The arrest of a Mexican farmworker in the death of an Iowa college student renewed calls to change immigration laws, but it also focused attention on the immigrant workers whose labor is essential to the state’s agricultural industry.
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Catholic young adults pray for survivors of clergy abuse
About 120 Catholics gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of St. Paul to pray for survivors of clergy sexual abuse and for a cleansing of the Catholic Church.
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Fr. James Martin urges Catholics to examine attitudes toward L.G.B.T. community
At the World Meeting of Families, Father Martin said LGBT people should be invited into parish ministries as “eucharistic ministers, music ministers, lectors, bereavement ministry, and every ministry.”
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Irish church’s fall from grace haunts pope’s Ireland trip
Pope Francis prepares to visit Ireland, a country rocked by decades of revelations about sexual abuse of children in its churches, the physical torture of youngsters in its schools and the humiliation of women in its workhouses.
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Complaint: Migrant parents coerced to sign documents they did not understand
Parents gave away rights to be reunited with their children when the non-English speaking mothers and fathers signed documents in English they could not read, according to a complaint.
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Minnesota prelate ‘steps aside’ from responsibilities with Napa Institute
Archbishop John C. Nienstedt has “stepped aside from his responsibilities” at the Napa Institute, the Irvine, California-based organization announced Aug. 15.
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One reporter’s account of priest abusers he only thought he knew
What do you do when a priest you’ve known for years turns out to have abused kids? What about two priests?
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Cardinal Farrell tells media church needs God to help it build bridges
In a wide-ranging news conference that touched on clerical sex abuse, the role of women in the church and LGBT issues, Cardinal Kevin Farrell said the fundamental message of the Gospel was the same for all of God’s creation.
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World’s bishops call for action on abuse; English bishop wants synod
A global synod on priests could help the church to end the “terrible” scandals of clerical child abuse, an English bishop told Pope Francis.