Few artists in history have found as many devotees as Richard Wagner, for better or for worse.
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Powerful Vatican Cardinal Becciu resigns amid financial scandal
The powerful head of the Vatican’s saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resigned Thursday from the post and renounced his rights as a cardinal amid a financial scandal that has reportedly implicated him indirectly.
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Trial of Catholic lay leader highlights gaps in church’s sex abuse oversight
The sexual abuse trial of Piero Alfio Capuana, the lay leader of the 5,000-member Catholic Culture and Environment Association, began in this small Sicilian city on Tuesday (Sept. 15), three years after the abuse allegedly took place.
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Moria camp fire may force E.U. policy shift on warehousing refugees in Greece
The overcrowded, underequipped Camp Moria, had an official capacity for just 2,800. Its population had been as high as 20,000 refugees, a number reduced to about 12,000 at the time of the fires.
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Spanish bishops denounce euthanasia bill
Euthanasia legislation is headed for the Spanish Senate and, if passed, it would be a defeat for human dignity and would affirm a self-centered view of life that proposes death as a solution to one’s problems, the Spanish bishops’ conference said.
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Cardinal calls for resettlement of asylum-seekers from Greek island
Amidst a pandemic, migrants suffer even more, as evident in the experiences of those in a Greek island camp.
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Barred Belarusian archbishop says he has gotten legal advice about reentry
An archbishop barred from reentering Belarus by authorities is seeking the assistance of the Vatican.
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Mission work will be needed when churches reopen, cardinal says
Given the longevity of the pandemic, the church in Europe will have to deal with the urgency of keeping the faithful engaged in their faith, according to the archbishop of Luxembourg.
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A deep dive into the secret archives of Pope Pius XII
Many documents from the Second World War remained sealed until the full archive was finally opened in March.
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Belarus archbishop refused reentry, warns nation faces civil war
“Returning to Minsk, I was not allowed in at the Kuznica-Bialystok border crossing,” Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev told the Catholic Information Agency, KAI, in neighboring Poland Aug. 31.