The bishops heard a report from an ongoing study of sexual abuse by priests conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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Pope Benedict Addresses Food Security at U.N. Conference
The U.N.-sponsored World Summit on Food Security in Rome ended with many participants frustrated with the lack of progress on food security goals.
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Anglican Leader, Vatican Official Assess Ecumenism
Archbishop Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, said the ecumenical situation really is a “glass half full.”
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Can Colombia’s Displaced People Get on the U.N. Agenda?
Over three million people in Colombia have been dislocated by civil war and violence related to drug trafficking.
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C.C.H.D. Says Grantees Follow Church Teaching
“We pledge…to ensure that all C.C.H.D. funds are used faithfully, effectively and in accord with Catholic social and moral teaching,” said Bishop Roger P. Morin.
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Close Guantanamo, Says Anti-torture Group
The prison is the symbol of our country’s violation of our deepest values” and must be closed immediately, a group of religious leaders said.
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” Close Guantánamo, Says Anti-torture Group Religious leaders have renewed their call to Congress seeking the immediate closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The prison “is the symbol of our country’s violation of our deepest values” and must be
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Detained Migrants Deserve Spiritual Care
The growing number of people in U.S. detention centers has made the issue of access even more urgent.
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” Detained Migrants Deserve Spiritual Care Migrants and refugees in prisons and detention centers have the same right to spiritual assistance as any other person, a U.S. bishop told a Vatican meeting. Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration
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Vatican to U.S.: Lift Cuba Embargo
The embargo “undeniably has a negative influence on the life of the people,” Archbishop Celli told Vatican Radio Nov. 13.