News & Issues
Nepotism and Profit at the Vatican - Friday, January 27, 2012
Jason Berry IRISH TIMES RITE AND REASON: IN 2005 parishioners of St James in the farm belt town of Kansas, Ohio, recoiled when Toledo Bishop Leonard Blair, facing a tight budget, closed the parish, steering them to one several miles away.
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Our Vatican Whistle-Blower - Friday, January 27, 2012
John Allen NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER We already knew that Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, named by Pope Benedict XVI in October as his new nuncio, or ambassador, to the United States, seriously rocked the boat in his brief but tumultuous run as the No. 2 official in the government of the Vatican city-state from 2009 to 2011.
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Austrian Rebel Priests Worry Vatican - Thursday, January 26, 2012
AUSTRIAN INDEPENDENT The highest representatives of the Austrian Catholic Church gathered with Vatican officials to speak about a group of priests who declared themselves "disobedient", it has emerged.
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Top Vatican Official Denounced Corruption - Wednesday, January 25, 2012
TIMES OF MALTA A top Vatican official who is now the envoy to Washington denounced corruption and waste in the Holy See in a series of letters to Pope Benedict XVI, Italian media reported today.
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The Bishops and Conscience - Monday, January 23, 2012
David DeCosse NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER What if the clashes over conscience between the American Catholic bishops and the Obama Administration are driven in great measure not by anti-Catholicism nor by creeping totalitarianism but by the very model of conscience used by the bishops themselves?
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Major Secular Youth Groups Get High Marks - Sunday, January 22, 2012
CBS NEWS The Boy Scouts have labored for decades to curtail sexual abuse of scouts by adult volunteers. But when their name was evoked in a lawsuit linked to the Penn State abuse scandal, the reference was not to problems — it was acknowledgment that the Scouts' current prevention policies are considered state of the art.
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Woman Sues Deacon - Saturday, January 21, 2012
William Browning CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE
CASPER A Colorado woman has filed a lawsuit against a deacon at a local church alleging the church official "imposed a sexual relationship" on her after she was referred to him for counseling a decade ago.
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Resigned NM Archbishop Sanchez Dies - Saturday, January 21, 2012
KOAT New Mexicans had mixed reactions on Friday upon learning of a former Santa Fe archbishop’s death.
Archbishop Robert Sanchez led the Santa Fe Archdiocese for nearly two decades.
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Young NY Priest With Child Removed - Friday, January 20, 2012
Aman Ali REUTERS A newly installed Roman Catholic priest has been removed from his suburban New York parish after church officials on Thursday said he secretly fathered a child while attending seminary.
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Bishop Zavala's Fall and Accountability - Monday, January 16, 2012
Christopher Stefanick CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
Something can be learned from every scandal. I lived and worked in the San Gabriel region of the Los Angeles Archdiocese for almost five years. Gabino Zavala was the bishop assigned to our region.
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