The attack at the Abbey of Latroun was condemned by the U.S. State Department, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and average Israelis.
The Franciscan Action Network called on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney “to acknowledge that climate change is an extremely critical ecological and moral issue
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The U.S. Catholic bishops’ point man on sexual abuse said the situation is comparable to the Reformation, when “the episcopacy, the regular clergy, even the papacy were discredited.”
In an interview just before his death the Jesuit cardinal described the church as “200 years out of date” and said the pedophilia scandals “oblige” the church to begin “a journey of transformation.”