The advisory panels should become a means of assistance and counsel for their respective national bishops’ conferences. “The members of these groups can instruct, with their own experience, how to deal with the issue of abuse, especially when it comes to listening to victims and accompanying them.”
Latin America
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Maryknoll lay missioner in Salvador works to address root causes of emigration
While murders have decreased since 2015-2016, when El Salvador had the world’s highest murder rate, disappearances have increased, and the murder rate remains among the worst in the world.
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What’s in your cup of coffee? Capeltic, a Chiapas-based cooperative, is serving up dignity
Bringing their product from field to coffee bar through these fair trade networks means coffee growers in one of the poorest areas in Mexico are less vulnerable to volatile commodity market price shifts.
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In battle for Amazon, church officials unite with indigenous communities
“Now, there’s been a change, a conversion to try to learn from indigenous communities about how to live in harmony with others and with a transcendent being. It’s important for us to learn from those who have lived there.”
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Will Brazil’s Bolsonaro protect more than 100 uncontacted indigenous communities?
For many of these small groups, remaining uncontacted is a survival strategy.
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Venezuelan military detains CNS contributor after raid
A Catholic News Service contributor in Caracas, Venezuela, was taken by military counterintelligence officials after his home was raided early March 6.
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D.C. bishop to Congress: Pass a permanent solution for Dreamers and T.P.S. recipients
A compromise to protect Dreamers and T.P.S. recipients “must not be achieved at the expense of other immigrant children and families,” said Bishop Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodríguez in testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
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Negotiators agree to rules for Nicaragua dialogue
The sides also that said agreements will be reached by consensus and that those agreements will be the foundation of what the talks produce.
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As tensions mount over aid delivery, is Canada undermining dialogue in Venezuela?
Though not usually seen as a major player in global politics, Canada has taken a leadership role in the Lima Group, which aims to restore “constitutional democracy” in Venezuela.
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Understanding the value of public penance in the age of clerical abuse, mass incarceration and #MeToo
This week’s guest is Eve Tushnet. We discuss her article “The value of public penance in the age of clerical abuse, mass incarceration and #MeToo.” We also discuss these articles: What is motu proprio? Will a 40-foot cross finally push the Supreme Court to revisit public religious displays? Pope Francis calls for an ‘all-out battle’ against […]