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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceSeptember 10, 2018The Catholic Church needs bishops who promote unity, "not soloists singing their own tune or captains fighting personal battles," Pope Francis told new bishops from the church's mission territories.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceSeptember 01, 2018Archbishop Vigano now says Pope Benedict made the sanctions private, perhaps “due to the fact that [Archbishop McCarrick] was already retired, maybe due to the fact that [Pope Benedict] was thinking he was ready to obey.”
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceAugust 26, 2018Pope Francis said that he trusted people to make their own judgment on Archbishop Viganò's letter and that parents of gay children should "dialogue, understand, make room for that son or daughter."
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceAugust 21, 2018Pope Francis will meet survivors of sexual abuse during his trip to Ireland Aug. 25-26.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceAugust 20, 2018"We must never stand outside the church to judge her; we are the church. We all are responsible for the church, including when there are problems in the church."
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceAugust 15, 2018While Mary was given a special grace, the pope said, the feast day should remind Catholics that the church professes faith in "the resurrection of the body" for all who are saved by Christ.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceAugust 14, 2018Beginning in the mid-1990s, the church in Ireland was rocked by a series of very public revelations about sexual abuse and, particularly, about how the abuse and allegations of it were mishandled by senior church leaders.
Faith Vatican Dispatch
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceAugust 13, 2018It is true that “sometimes we are the ones who betray the Gospel,” the pope said.
Faith Explainer
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceAugust 10, 2018The "regular canonical trial" for an accused bishop, experts say, usually would be conducted by the apostolic tribunal of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceAugust 09, 2018Dealing with the reality of potential abuse and the history of clerical sexual abuse in the church is a process.