Religion and Values
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2023
Massachusetts diocese publishes nameless clergy abuse report
Boston Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who has worked on many priest abuse cases for decades, called the report a 'self-serving document' by a diocese that 'has allowed the wholesale sexual abuse of children for decades.'
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2023
Pope says South Sudan’s future depends on treatment of women
Overall, women and girls in South Sudan live a 'hellish existence,' a U.N. commission reported last year.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2023
Pope criticizes anti-gay laws, says being gay is a sin but ‘not a crime’
At least 67 countries, the majority in Africa or the Middle East, have national laws against same-sex relations, while at least nine others criminalize gender expression against transgender or other people.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2023
Diocese clears priest of abuse allegations, assigns him to Auburn parish
The Rev. Robert Vaillancourt spent roughly one year on administrative leave while church officials investigated allegations of sexual abuse in the 1980s. The diocese said in July that these allegations have not been substantiated.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2023
Bishop Deeley calls proposal to allow abortions late in pregnancy ‘beyond troubling’
While the leader of Maine's Catholics is vocal in his opposition to Gov. Mills' bill, other religious leaders are divided.
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2023
Pope meets with Benedict’s aide amid revelations in unflattering new book
Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI, has raised eyebrows with an extraordinary memoir in which he settles old scores, reveals palace intrigues and casts Francis in a deeply unfavorable light.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2023
Decades-old abuse claims against Portland diocese, once blocked, pour in after state law change
More than a dozen people once barred by statutes of limitations are suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2023
Some 65,000 view Benedict XVI’s body at Vatican
Thursday morning’s funeral will be led by Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Square.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2023
Benedict’s funeral to bring ‘two popes’ era to a complicated close
Pope Francis, in the final act of a relationship with Benedict XVI that was outwardly warm but often awkward, will frame the period of remembrance and mourning.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2022
In U.S., sharply contrasting views on Benedict XIV’s legacy
Some U.S. Catholics, on learning of his death Saturday, recalled him as an obstacle to progress in combating clergy sex abuse and expanding the role of women in the church.
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