Pope Francis prayed that the Holy Spirit would “sustain” summit participants and “help us to turn this evil into an opportunity for awareness and purification.”
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Cardinal Tagle at abuse summit: How do we balance justice and forgiveness?
Cardinal Tagle urged church leaders not to shy away from acknowledging the pain of victims.
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New book, ‘In the Closet of the Vatican’, produces a toxic cloud of suspicion
Frederic Martel boldly told reporters at a press conference at the Foreign Press Association in Rome on Feb. 20 that “the great majority” of the more than 200 members of the College of Cardinals are leading double lives.
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Will the summit on abuse bring meaningful changes in Rome?
“We all know that canon law has to be changed so that it stops protecting the priesthood of ordained men over the lives of children,” Anne Barrett Doyle, the co-director of BishopAccountability.org, told reporters.
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Pope Francis approves four priorities for the Jesuits’ next decade
Arturo Sosa, S.J., the superior general of the Society of Jesus, today made public the four main reference points that are to guide the life and work of the Jesuits over the next 10 years.
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Vatican emphasizes transparency and accountability at upcoming sex abuse summit
The Vatican will live-stream all the keynote speeches and the interventions of Pope Francis at the upcoming summit on the protection of minors.
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Cardinal Cupich: The Vatican abuse summit will focus on ‘responsibility, accountability and transparency’
Cardinal Cupich expects the summit to clarify “to all that they are not alone in implementing measures and that they have to resolve as a body, as the college of bishops, to own this issue.”
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Pope Francis on Yemen, Venezuela and the abuse of nuns by clergy
During a 45-minute press conference on the flight from Abu Dhabi to Rome, Pope Francis answered questions about whether the Holy See would be ready to act as a mediator to avoid a civil war in Venezuela, the problem of the sexual abuse of nuns by clergy in the Catholic Church and the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
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Pope Francis to world’s religious leaders: We build the future together or there will be no future
“There is no alternative: We either build the future together or there will not be a future,” Pope Francis said frankly in an important keynote address to participants at the high-level inter-religious meeting in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 4. “Religions, in particular, cannot renounce the urgent task of building bridges between peoples and cultures,” he […]
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Why Pope Francis is traveling to ‘the heartland of the Muslim world’
Today the only Christians in the Arabian Peninsula are migrants, and the pope’s visit is a cause of great joy for them.