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*In the latest battle pitting democracy against theocracy, Obama’s healthcare program has taken center stage. At issue is the prospect of religious institutions contributing to the costs of birth control for people affiliated with them. The critical piece of this debate is about whether schools and hospitals, and other institutions supported and founded by the [...]
*The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has ordered up a new translation of the Bible, one it says is more accurate, more accessible and more poetic. Now “booty,” a word that sets off snickers in Sunday school, will be replaced by the “spoils” of war when the newest edition of the New American Bible, the English-language [...]
*University theologians in Germany have called on the Catholic Church to abandon the vow of celibacy for priests, open up the clergy for women and accept gay couples. The 143 professors said the church must implement bold reforms because of “a crisis without precedent” following the discovery of widespread sexual and physical abuses by clergymen [...]
*Europe is known for its edgy sense of fashion, artistic expression, and interesting adverts, to say the least. A recent British ad was quickly pulled by the country’s Advertising Standards Authority after a commercial depicted two priests getting ready to kiss passionately before sharing a tub of ice cream. The ad was for Italian company [...]
*NBCconnecticut.com reports – A Catholic priest in Waterbury is accused of illegally taking $1 million from his parish for his personal use. Rev. Kevin Gray of Sacred Heart Church is now being investigated by the police. The Archdiocese of Hartford made the discovery after reviewing the church’s finances. The Archdiocese claims Rev. Gray took the [...]
*Three years after Los Angeles Archdiocese agreed to the largest priest abuse settlement in U.S. history, a key element of that agreement — public release of accused priests’ personnel files — remains unfulfilled with no clear outlook on when the documents may be disclosed. For many who believed that church authorities had ignored or downplayed [...]
*The catholic faith is in a miserable state. The priests and their fellow brethren are ringing their hands over the policies of the church when it comes to disciplining the priests for their sexual deviancy that has thrown the entire catholic faith into a major tailspin financially and spiritually … if there were ever spirit [...]
*It’s back. The sexual abuse crisis that dominated U.S. headlines in 2002 is back, with an international focus this time. And with it comes the parallel attacks on media that brought news of the crisis to light. And, now, as then, the Vatican has defensive — as if this were an attack on faith, not [...]
*Leon Laclau shared his life, and often, his bed, with Marga over 20 years — all while serving as a Catholic priest in a town in the French Pyrenees. His clerical leadership eventually expelled him, prompting protests from his flock and inspiring other priests and their partners around France to speak out about long-hidden love [...]
*The Catholic Church has undergone a very public airing of multiple sex abuse scandals involving priests and underage boys. In the early part of the millennium, Catholic leadership disavowed any knowledge of the sexual predilections of individual priests and condemned their actions. After internal investigations the Catholic Church’s official stance was that they were now [...]
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