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Australian bishops’ report advocates major changes to church governance

Confidential Report Church Governance Title: Australian bishops’ report advocates major changes to church governance Author: Joshua J. McElwee Publisher: NCR Online Date: 03JUN2020 A new report commissioned by Australia’s bishops and religious orders recommends a series of radical changes to the way the Catholic Church operates across the country, tackling issues as far-ranging as women’s

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June 3, 2020 No Comments
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‘Vos Estis’ at one year: Some question pope’s process for investigating bishops

Title: ‘Vos Estis’ at one year: Some question pope’s process for investigating bishops Author: Joshua J. McElwee Publisher: NCR Online Date: 27MAY2020 Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, Pope Francis, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and television reporter Valentina Alazraki of Televisa are pictured during the third-day of a meeting on the protection of minors in the church

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May 28, 2020 No Comments
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Cardinal Gracias: Church must ‘shed prejudice’ against women’s leadership

Shed Prejudice Women’s Leadership Title: Cardinal Gracias: Church must ‘shed prejudice’ against women’s leadership Author: Joshua J. McElwee Publisher: National Catholic Reporter Date: 24FEB2020 VATICAN CITY — One of the six members of Pope Francis’ advisory Council of Cardinals has acknowledged a bias among the members of the Catholic Church’s all-male hierarchy against giving women

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February 25, 2020 No Comments
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Clericalism cited as root of sex abuse crisis

Clericalism root of abuse crisis Title: Clericalism cited as root of sex abuse crisis Author: Sarah Salvadore Publication: National Catholic Reporter Date: 04FEB2020 In a Jan. 29 talk at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, Jesuit Fr. Hans Zollner said that clericalism is the root cause of the damage done to the church and called out past

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February 5, 2020 No Comments
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Kieran Tapsell

The ball is in Pope Francis’ court over the culture of cover-up

Pope Francis culture cover-up Author: Kieran Tapsell Publication: National Catholic Reporter Date: 06JUN2018 Pope Francis’ condemnation of a culture of cover-up in the global Catholic Church is a welcome change to the attitude of Pope Benedict XVI in his 2010 pastoral letter to the Irish people in response to the Murphy Commission’s Report. Benedict blamed the Irish bishops for the

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January 23, 2020 No Comments
Pope Francis abolishes pontifical
Kieran Tapsell

Australian bishop testifies on prevalence of child sex abuse in the church

Kieran Tapsell Child Abuse Author: Kieran Tapsell Publication: National Catholic Reporter NCROnline Date: 10Sep2015 Dying of cancer, Bishop Emeritus Geoffrey Robinson appeared Aug. 24 before the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to testify to the prevalence of child sexual abuse in the church.He painted a sad picture of a brave

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January 23, 2020 No Comments
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1962 document orders secrecy in sex cases. Many bishops unaware obscure missive was in their archives

1962 document orders secrecy Title: 1962 document orders secrecy in sex cases. Many bishops unaware obscure missive was in their archives Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publication: National Catholic Reporter NCRonline.org Date: 07AUG2003 A 1962 Vatican document ordering secrecy in cases of sexual misconduct by priests is not, according to canon lawyers, a “smoking gun”

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January 22, 2020 No Comments

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