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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Pope Francis at abuse summit opening: “Listen to the cry of the little ones”
Opening the Vatican summit on the clerical sexual abuse crisis, the pope said, “The holy people of God are watching and are awaiting from us not simple, predictable condemnations, but concrete and effective measures.”
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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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Vatican sex abuse summit: what you need to know
Daily news and analysis of the historic gathering of bishops from 130 countries for a summit on the protection of children
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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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Pope Francis lifts suspension imposed on Nicaragua’s Ernesto Cardenal
St. John Paul II had suspended Father Cardenal and several other priests from active ministry in 1985 for joining the Marxist-influenced Sandinista government. Father Cardenal resigned from the Sandinista Front in 1994.
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Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick laicized by Pope Francis
Pope Francis has recognized the dismissal from the clerical state, also known as laicization, of Theodore McCarrick, 88, the former cardinal and emeritus archbishop of Washington.
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Only a listening church can address the sex abuse crisis
This month’s summit meeting in Rome is a signal that Pope Francis intends to address the abuse crisis in a mode of collegiality, looking at people rather than structures.
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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.”