At their annual meeting in mid-June, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted overwhelmingly in favor of new protocols to hold themselves accountable for committing sexual abuse themselves and for mishandling accusations of abuse against others. The new protocols encourage lay involvement at every stage of an investigation but stopped short of requiring it. In […]
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Remains of Archbishop Fulton Sheen transferred from New York to Peoria Diocese
Bishop Jenky said the sainthood cause for the archbishop, a native of the Peoria Diocese, has resumed.
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Bishops in Central African Republic warn of cycle of violence from gangs
“The injustices and sufferings still being inflicted by these executioners risk diverting us from God’s path into a spiral of vengeance and cycle of violence,” the bishops said.
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Congo’s bishops want president to reestablish law in country’s east
The mineral-rich country has suffered persistent violence by armed groups, leaving 4.5 million people displaced and a fifth of the population needing basic assistance, according to the United Nations.
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Australian bishops begin ‘ad limina’ visit with Pope Francis
The president of the Australian bishops’ conference told his fellow bishops that it is “a time of humiliation” for Catholic Church leaders, but he is convinced that God is still at work.
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How the Jesuits plan to appeal Indy archbishop’s decision to revoke Brebeuf’s Catholic status
The Midwest Jesuits plan to appeal a decree by Archbishop Thompson of Indianapolis that Brebeuf Jesuit High School is no longer recognized as a Catholic school after the school’s administrators refused to terminate a teacher in a same-sex marriage as requested by the archdiocese.
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U.K. church officials ‘deliberately misled’ U.S. archdiocese into housing abusive priest
An English church official “deliberately misled” a U.S. archdiocese into harboring a pedophile priest and helping him to escape justice for a quarter of a century, said a report from a child abuse inquiry.
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Why Bishop Barron’s take on Jordan Peterson blew up on Catholic social media
Those who have experienced the “Catholic internet” have glimpsed the various camps that are regularly at odds with one another over the finer points of liturgy, doctrine and, yes, Jordan Peterson.
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Bishop Blaire dies, recalled for living by a simple code — ‘to serve’
The much beloved bishop was recalled by many both in California and across the country as a churchman who lived by a simple code: “We are here to serve, and to do it with a touch of class.”
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Bishops draw attention to migrant child deaths at border
In less than a year, at least six children are believed to have died while in the custody of immigration officials along the border.