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The Pope and Turkey: Anger over Armenia | The Economist
AS THIS weekend's rupture between the Vatican and the Turkish government demonstrated, upsetting people has become an integral part of being pope these days. On April 12th Pope Francis delivered…
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Divorced Catholics
By Family Law
From The New York Times:Facing millions of divorced Catholics around the world, many of whom express frustration over their status in the church, the Vatican has begun a remarkable re-examination of the…
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Catholics Are More Progressive Than The Vatican, And Almost Everyone Else | FiveThirtyEight
Roman Catholic bishops released a draft document this week calling for the church to welcome gays, unmarried couples and people who have divorced. The document is proving to be highly…
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Pope Francis Declares Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero ‘a martyr’
Big news in El Salvador is that Pope Francis has ruled that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero died as a martyr, paving the way for his beatification, the step before sainthood in the…
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Why Pope Francis Is Wrong About Free Expression
But Pope Francis, the Bishop of Rome and world leader of the Catholic Church, has some ideas about laws governing the secular world. We expect Francis to defend the dignity…
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Vatican offers olive branch to US nuns – Yahoo News
VATICAN CITY (AP) A sweeping Vatican investigation into Roman Catholic nuns in the United States that began amid fears they had become too feminist and secular ended up praising the…
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RORATE CÆLI: For the record: The new papal interview [Updated]
The full article, with comments and circumstances, is available at La Nación, Argentina's oldest daily. Below, just the excerpt containing the published portion of the interview itself:via rorate-caeli.blogspot.com
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Vatican s new top prosecutor of abusive priests implicated in past failure to stop notorious abuser, Donald McGuire – Metro – The Boston Globe
A prominent American Jesuit recently named by Pope Francis to prosecute priests accused of sexually abusing minors under church law was himself one of several Catholic officials who allowed a…
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Video: Vatican official says Catholic church welcomes homosexuals – Telegraph
A Vatican official said on Monday that the church must "respect the dignity" of gay people after Catholic bishops showed unprecedented openness to accepting the real lives of many Catholics…
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Francis reverses John Paul II, reinstates priest suspended in ’80s for joining Sandinista govt | Fox News
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis has reinstated a Nicaraguan priest suspended by the Vatican in the 1980s for participating in Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government. The 81-year-old Rev. Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaragua's…