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TO OVERCOME SHORTAGE, POPE FRANCIS SIGNALS ELDERLY MARRIED MEN COULD BECOME PRIESTS
Pope Francis has said he is willing to consider ordaining older married men as priests in isolated communities, but has ruled out making celibacy optional... READ MORE›
SEX ABUSE SURVIVOR MARIE COLLINS QUITS VATICAN CHILD PROTECTION PANEL
Sex abuse survivor marie collins quits vatican child protection..... READ MORE›
POPE'S CLEMENCY FOR PEDOPHILE PRIESTS UNDER SCRUTINY FOLLOWING LATEST SCANDAL
In sharp contrast, Pope Benedict XVI launched a major campaign to stamp out pedophilia in the Catholic church during his brief tenure as Pope between 2005 and 2013... READ MORE›
CATHOLIC CHURCH PAID $213MN TO SEX ABUSE VICTIMS IN AUSTRALIA SINCE 1980
Catholic Church paid 213mn to sex abuse victims in Australia since 1980... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA: DATA SUGGESTS RIFE REJECTION OF CHILD SEX ABUSE CLAIMS IN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Hearings have begun in Australia into allegations of widespread child sex abuse in the Catholic Church between 1950 and 2010... READ MORE›
'SHOCKING' SCALE OF CATHOLIC CHURCH SEX CRIMES REVEALED
The commission, Australia's highest level of inquiry, reported 4,444 alleged incidents of sexual abuse by Catholic priests between 1980 and 2015... READ MORE›
DUTERTE'S WAR ON DRUGS A 'REIGN OF TERROR', CHURCH SAYS
The Philippines' Catholic Church has blasted President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs for creating a reign of terror ... READ MORE›
VATICAN'S NEW GUIDELINES MAINTAIN BAN ON GAY PRIESTS
As Pope Francis approaches the fourth anniversary of being elected head of the Roman Catholic Church, he remains an exceedingly popular Catholic leader... READ MORE›
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BRAZIL ROCKED BY ABORTION FOR 9-YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM
The young girl at the centre of the case escaped excommunication only because she is still a child in the eyes of Church authorities... READ MORE›
CATHOLIC CHURCH APOLOGISES FOR ROLE IN 'FORCED ADOPTIONS' OVER 30-YEAR PERIOD
Adoption reached a peak in 1968, when more than 16,000 babies born to unmarried mothers were handed over to new families... READ MORE›
CATHOLIC BISHOPS NOT OBLIGED TO REPORT CLERICAL CHILD ABUSE, VATICAN SAYS
Vatican guide says 'not necessarily' bishop's duty to report suspects to police despite Pope Francis's vows to redress Catholic church's legacy of child abuse... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS CREATES COMMISSION TO STUDY FEMALE DEACONS
Pope Francis has created a commission to study the historical role of female deacons in the Catholic Church, the Vatican's press office said Monday... READ MORE›
VOICE IS SOUGHT AT THE VATICAN ON REMARRIAGE
Homosexuality is regarded by the church as intrinsically disordered, a view that has left gay Catholics often sidelined, and gay couples feeling unacknowledged... READ MORE›
JUDGE IN SPAIN CHARGES 10 PRIESTS WITH CHILD SEX ABUSE
Related Stories A judge in the southern Spanish city of Granada has charged 10 Roman Catholic priests and two Catholic lay workers with child sex abuse... READ MORE›
JOZEF WESOLOWSKI EX-ARCHBISHOP ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE DIES AT 67
Mr. Wesolowski died in his Vatican City residence where he had lived since September after he was placed under house arrest... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS VOWS CLERGY IN SEX ABUSE CASES WILL FACE JUSTICE
Charles Chaput, the archbishop of Philadelphia, and bishop Fitzgerald, head of the Philadelphia diocese's office for the protection of minors, also attended... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS PROCLAIMS 'ZERO TOLERANCE' TO CHILD MOLESTERS
The letter focused on scourge of child sexual abuse within the Church... READ MORE›
CATHOLIC CHURCH LOSING GROUND IN LATIN AMERICA
Report Catholic Church losing ground in Latin America... READ MORE›
AS POPE VISIT NEARS, U.S. CATHOLIC CHURCH FACES FINANCIAL STRAIN
As pope visit nears u.s. catholic church faces financial strain... READ MORE›
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA LINKS CELIBACY TO CHILD ABUSE
Head of Catholic Church rsquo's advisory group says celibacy vow is risky and may pose ldquo unbearable strain rdquo on priests... READ MORE›
SWISS BISHOPS CREATE EUR462K FUND TO PAY VICTIMS OF CATHOLIC CLERICS' SEX ABUSE
According to SBK statistics, some 204 perpetrators, all church members, were involved in these sexual assaults... READ MORE›
BISHOPS WHO FAIL TO REPORT ABUSE COULD BE REMOVED
Pope Francis says bishops who fail to report cases of sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults could be removed from office... READ MORE›
CUBA'S SANTERA-A FAITHFUL EXPERIENCE POPE FRANCIS'S VISIT THROUGH DIFFERENT PRISM
Throughout history, the Catholic church has had a somewhat awkward relationship with such syncretic religions... READ MORE›
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES CHURCH HID CHILD ABUSE CASES FOR DECADES, AUSTRALIAN INQUIRY TOLD
The U.S.-based Jehovah's Witnesses number about 8 million worldwide and are known for their foreign ministries as well as their door-to-door campaigns... READ MORE›
INTENSE JOCKEYING ON GAY ISSUES PRECEDES NEXT WEEK'S CATHOLIC SYNOD MEETING
One of the groups hoping to see its view on the matter triumph at the synod is the Filial Appeal... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN CARDINAL: CHURCH 'MUCKED UP' ON SEX ABUSE
George Pell, the Vatican's finance minister, faces grilling via videolink from Australian child sex abuse inquiry... READ MORE›
CHILE TV AIRS VIDEO OF POPE DEFENDING BISHOP WHO ALLEGEDLY COVERED UP PEDOPHILE PRIEST'S ABUSES
A Chilean television station has aired a video that shows Pope Francis defending a Santiago bishop whose opponents allege has covered up sexual abuse by a... READ MORE›
POPE PUTS GUAM ARCHBISHOP ACCUSED OF SEX ABUSE ON LEAVE
In the case of Guam's archbishop, however, the accusations are that Apuron himself abused boys during the 1970s... READ MORE›
POPE SAYS LUTHERANS, CATHOLICS MUST 'SEEK PARDON' FOR PERSECUTION
Pope Francis, in a visit to Rome's Lutheran church on Sunday, said both sides, Catholics and Lutherans, should seek forgiveness for past persecutions. The... READ MORE›
COMMENT: HAS THE POPE MISSED THE POINT ON CONTRACEPTION?
Through much of Africa and Asia the Catholic Church has played a major role in challenging contraception use... READ MORE›
IRISH-BORN PRIEST GUILTY OF SEXUALLY ABUSING A YOUNG GIRL IN CHILE
An Irish-born Chilean priest was found guilty on Wednesday of sexually abusing a child in his care at a religious school in the capital, Santiago... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS TO ANNOUNCE NEW MARRIAGE ANNULMENT RULES FOR CATHOLICS
Washington Pope Francis plans to release a plan to reform the Catholic Church's procedure for marriage annulments according to a Vatican spokesperson... READ MORE›
A SNAPSHOT OF THE U.S. CATHOLIC CHURCH ON EVE OF PAPAL VISIT
Catholic church is one of the wealthiest in the world -- and one of the biggest donors to the Vatican... READ MORE›
ARCHBISHOP ACCUSED OF CHILD SEX ABUSE BY VATICAN DIES BEFORE TRIAL
A former papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic Wesolowski appeared to have died of natural causes the Vatican said in a statement... READ MORE›
POPE INSISTS 'MARRIAGE IS BOND FOR MAN AND WOMAN'
The Church must search out these persons, welcome and accompany them, Pope Francis added... READ MORE›
DUBLIN TO HOST NEXT WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES
The World Meeting of Families is an event that happens every three years... READ MORE›
'GOD WEEPS,' POPE SAYS, AFTER MEETING CLERGY SEX ABUSE VICTIMS
'God weeps,' pope says, after meeting clergy sex abuse victims... READ MORE›
TRUMP HAS 'AMAZING MEETING' WITH BLACK CLERGY BUT ENDORSEMENT ELUDES
Donald Trump met with a group of black pastors for several hours Monday, calling the session an amazing meeting that went longer than planned because we... READ MORE›