Burke appeared out of step with the current pontificate.
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Ruling sets up possible Supreme Court round on same-sex marriage
Although the Supreme Court just a few weeks ago declined to accept any of several challenges to rulings making same-sex marriage legal in various states, a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision Nov. 6 could lead to another shot at the high court weighing in on a nationwide approach to such unio
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Chicago releases more files on clergy sex abuse cases
Documents answer when archdiocese learned of abuse and what church officials did about it.
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Kasper: Pope Francis doesn’t want a ‘self pitying church’
Just days before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opens its annual fall meeting, German Cardinal Walter Kasper, often called the pope’s theologian, had a not-too-subtle message for the American church.Kasper told a standing-room-only crowd at Catholic University that Pope Francis wants
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Trapped in Irbil: Christian Iraqi family waits to find safe passage to the West
The last thing Abu Sabah ever pictured in his life was being homeless and living in a tent in a park somewhere.But that is exactly what he and his family are experiencing in this Christian enclave outside of Irbil, the capital of the Kurdistan area of northern Iraq.Sabah, a Syriac Catholic from the
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Another ‘Blasphemy’ Atrocity in Pakistan: Church protests beating deaths of Christian couple accused of blasphemy
Church protests beating deaths of Christian couple accused of blasphemy.
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Francis: Annulments should be cheaper and more efficient
‘Some procedures are so long and so burdensome…people give up.’
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New York Archdiocese begins large consolidation in 2015: Cardinal says mergers tough to take, but address shifts in population
Cardinal says mergers tough to take, but address population shifts
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Vatican to host conference on traditional marriage
The interreligious Vatican-sponsored gathering will take place Nov. 17-19.
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Woman’s suicide called tragic: ‘Cutting life short is not the answer to death.’
Brittany Maynard, a young California woman who was suffering from terminal brain cancer and gained national attention for her plan to use Oregon's assisted suicide law, ended her life Nov. 1. She was 29 years old."We are saddened by the fact that this young woman gave up hope, and now our c