By tempering his rhetoric on Ukraine, the pope is protecting his role as a peacemaker. He is also downplaying any conflict between Western Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

Bishop Howard Hubbard admitted that he consistently transferred abusive priests without informing local police, families of abuse victims, or Catholics in parishes where the men were reassigned.

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Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich has called for a change in Catholic teaching on homosexuality, saying: “The catechism is not set in stone. One may also question what it says.”

But the Congregation for Catholic Education also said that administrators should not be too quick to dismiss employees who are not “totally” Catholic.

“If Putin says something on Tuesday, the Russian Patriarch has to say the same thing on Wednesday but just putting the word ‘God’ into the sentence,” David Nazar, S.J., said in an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell.