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Vatican priest advisor on sexuality barred from priestly ministry

Tony Anatrella Sexual Abuse Title: Vatican priest advisor on sexuality barred from priestly ministry Authors: Luke Coppen, Ed Condon & JD Flynn Publisher: The Pillar Date: 18JAN2023 Msgr. Tony Anatrella helped write the Vatican’s 2005 instruction on seminarians “with homosexual tendencies.” He is now barred from ministry after allegations of sexual abuse. The Archdiocese of

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January 19, 2023 No Comments
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Benedict’s brief papacy was marred by the priest sex abuse scandal

Pope Emeritus Benedict’s death Title: Benedict’s brief papacy was marred by the priest sex abuse scandal Author: Corky Siemaszko Publisher: NBC News Date: 01JAN2023 The priest sex-abuse scandal was the albatross around the neck of Pope Emeritus Benedict’s brief eight-year reign as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, according to Vatican analysts. Long-suppressed allegations that priests had been preying

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January 1, 2023 No Comments
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Crisis of confidence over cardinal shakes Cologne Catholics

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki Title: Crisis of confidence over cardinal shakes Cologne Catholics Author: Kirsten Grieshaber Publisher: Crux (via Associated Press) Date: 10DEC2022 COLOGNE, Germany — An unprecedented crisis of confidence is shaking a historic center of Catholicism in Germany — the Archdiocese of Cologne. Catholic believers have protested their deeply divisive archbishop, and are

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December 11, 2022 No Comments
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Jesuit priests demand transparency in Vatican’s artist case

Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik Title: Jesuit priests demand transparency in Vatican’s artist case Author: Nicole Winfield Publisher: ABCNEWS/AP Date: 08DEC2022 ROME — One of the Vatican’s leading Jesuit advisers on preventing clergy sexual abuse called Wednesday for church authorities to shed more light on the case of a famous Jesuit artist who wasn’t sanctioned by

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December 8, 2022 No Comments
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France opens investigation into cardinal who admitted to sexually abusing 14-year-old girl

Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard Title: France opens investigation into cardinal who admitted to sexually abusing 14-year-old girl Authors: Delia Gallagher & Saskya Vandoorne,  Publisher: CNN Date: 08NOV2022 French authorities have opened an investigation into one of highest-ranking members of France’s Catholic Church, who admitted to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl when he was a parish priest,

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November 9, 2022 No Comments
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Australia’s Archbishop Costelloe: Women’s ordination and church governance are ‘big theological questions’

Australia’s Archbishop Timothy Costelloe Title:  Australia’s Archbishop Costelloe: Women’s ordination and church governance are ‘big theological questions’ Author: Gerard O’Connell Publisher: America Magazine Date:  07NOV2022 Read Part I of this interview here: Australian Archbishop Costelloe tells Pope Francis ‘The church in Australia is alive.’In the second part of this exclusive interview with America, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe,

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November 8, 2022 No Comments