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Vatican May Allow Married Men to be Ordained in the Amazon Region

18 Jun 2019
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Alison Lesley

Priests in the Amazon region is estimated to be as low as one priest for every 10,000 Catholics The . This is making the Roman Catholic Church consider a change to a centuries-old norm, which states...

TX Catholic Leaders Release 286 Names of Clergy Accused of Sexually Abusing Children

05 Feb 2019
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Elisa Meyer

The accused are spread across 14 Texas dioceses. through sexual means. The report is arguably the biggest collection of names released since the grand jury report in Pennsylvania in 2018. A total...

Vatican Eyeing the Olympics with Start-Up Athletics Team

11 Jan 2019
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Gary Nguyen

The Holy See will field a team in the Italian Paralympics. The team will compete in a number of international competitions, the Olympics included. The team is a diverse one, even including a 62-year-old...

L.A. Archdiocese Releases Updated List of Clergy Accused of Abusing Children

07 Dec 2018
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C Barnett

The L.A. Archdiocese has paid $740 million in settlements. This action was a direct fallout after there was an uproar about how the Vatican responded to allegations of abuse against their own flock....

Court Rules Not to Release the Names of 11 Priests Accused of Sexual Assault

05 Dec 2018
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C Barnett

The ruling was passed 6-1. A judgment by the and are currently under a grand jury investigation. The names of the disgraced clergy will not be publicly released. The highest court ruled secrecy constitutes...

Will Catholic Clergy Be Allowed to Marry? The Pope is Considering it.

24 Oct 2018
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Derek Welch

The Catholic Church continues to lose priests at an alarming rate. for hundreds of years: throwing open the doors to the priesthood to married men in clergy-deficient areas of the world. The...

Archdiocese of Philadelphia Receives a Subpoena from the DOJ

19 Oct 2018
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Nathan Glover

300 Catholic priests tortured 1,000 children in Pennsylvania. which occurred within the confines of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. The dioceses of Scranton, Allentown, Pittsburgh, Erie,...

Google Honors Priest Who Created The Big Bang Theory With Doodle

22 Jul 2018
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C Barnett

Catholic priest honored for the time by Google The company changes its “Google Doodle” to honor luminaries and events. This is, however, the first time it honored a Catholic priest. Fr....

Thou Shalt Not Rap: Kenyan Church Suspends Rapping Priest

01 Jul 2018
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Elisa Meyer

Father Paul Ogalo was barred from public preaching for a year. The priest, attached to St. Monica Catholic Church, was given suspension orders on June 3. The Homa Bay Diocese brought misconduct charges...

3 Priests Murdered In the Philippines For Criticizing President Duterte

13 Jun 2018
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Derek Welch

The Catholic Church Has Taken A More Active Role In Blaming President Duterte For Human Rights Abuses It should be no surprise that Father Richmond Nilo was killed. He had been an outspoken critic...