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Catholic Bishops Reject Moderate Leader, Elect New York's Timothy Dolan in a Shocker
By David Gibson
In a surprising result that upends tradition, the Catholic bishops of the United States have rejected a bishop who was favored to win election to a three-year term as leader of the American hierarchy and instead chose New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan. The defeat of Bishop Gerald Kicanas of ...
Vatican: Cardinals Will 'Reflect and Pray' on Sex Abuse Crisis
By David Gibson
The Vatican announced Monday that the world's cardinals, assembling in Rome next week to welcome two dozen new members to their ranks, will gather a day early for "reflection and prayer" on several topics, including the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The late Pope John Paul II brought together ...
AIDS Is a Kind of 'Justice' for Promiscuous Sex, Belgian Catholic Leader Claims
By David Gibson
The Catholic Church in Belgium has been battered by scandals and missteps over the past year, and now its new leader, the conservative Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Brussels, has sparked a fresh controversy with comments declaring that people afflicted with AIDS are receiving "a sort of ...
Nun Who Was Excommunicated for Denouncing Sex Abuse to Become 'Patron Saint Of Whistleblowers'
By David Gibson
Pope Benedict XVI has for months been battered by criticism over his history of dealing quietly with sex abuse by clergy, but in October he could make his most eloquent response yet when he canonizes a 19th-century Australian nun who was once excommunicated in part because she complained about ...
Vatican Bank Scandal: Money Laundering -- or Manufactured Charges?
By David Gibson
VATICAN CITY -- As the legendary Italian journalist Luigi Barzini often observed, everything in Italy is about making a grand display, and yet nothing is at it seems. That paradox certainly seemed evident in the Vatican bank affair that broke this week with titillating news about possible money ...
Pope Named in Lawsuit by Clergy Sex Abuse Victim
By Tom KavanaghA victim of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest has filed a lawsuit against the Vatican, naming Pope Benedict as a defendant. According to CNN, this the first legal case in the worldwide clergy abuse scandal to target the pontiff. Terry Kohut says he was sexually molested and assaulted by the ...
Vatican Bank Probe Threatens New Scandal for Beleaguered Pope
By David Gibson
VATICAN CITY -- The head of the Vatican bank is being investigated on suspicion of money laundering, Italian law enforcement officials said on Tuesday, a bad omen for the Catholic Church as it struggles to overcome the scandal of clergy sexual abuse. Italian authorities said that besides bank ...
Pope To Tweak Anglicans Over Famous Convert?
By David Gibson
As Pope Benedict XVI started a four-day visit to Great Britain he addressed the clergy sex abuse scandal in frank comments aimed at rebutting some of the sharp criticisms he has faced on that issue as well as many others. But on the controversial topic of troubled relations with the Church of ...
Pope Benedict's Visit to the U.K. May Be a Flop
By Delia Lloyd
LONDON -- Boy, do I hope that the pope has thick skin. On Thursday, he arrived for the first papal visit to the United Kingdom since John Paul II came in 1982. But unlike his predecessor, it doesn't look like Pope Benedict XVI is going to get a hero's welcome. The pontiff will spend four days in ...
Pope's Adviser Calls Britain 'Third World Country,' Drops Out of Trip to U.K.
By David GibsonBenedict XVI's trip to Great Britain this week was already shaping up as a controversial showdown between a tradition-bound pope and a secularized British society, but inflammatory remarks by a German cardinal who was to have accompanied Benedict have upped the tensions even before the trip ...
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