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Vatican Sanctions Belgian Bishop Who Abused Nephew
By not in system - AOL NewsVATICAN CITY -- The Vatican has sanctioned a Belgian bishop who resigned last year after admitting he had sexually abused his nephew, saying he can no longer act as a priest in public and may risk further church sanctions. The Vatican on Tuesday clarified the punishment against the former Bruges Bishop Roger Vangheluwe after Belgian bishops reported over the weekend that he had merely been sent outside Belgium for spiritual and psychological counseling, a seemingly cushy punishment given the seriousness of the crime. Peter Maenhoudt, AP Bishop Roger Vangheluwe seen in Bruges, ...
What Is Driving Christians Out of the Middle East?
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News
(Oct. 13) -- Christians are fleeing the birthplace of Christianity in the Middle East, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be to blame, according to regional bishops summoned to the Vatican this week to reverse the troubling trend. Melkite Patriarch Gregory III of Damascus, Syria, said at the gathering that Christian emigration is "among the most dangerous effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." He predicted that the Christian exodus will turn Arab society into "a society with only one color, a society uniquely Muslim," the Catholic News Service reported. Safin Hamed, AFP / ...
Backlash Greets Pope's Rejection of Bishops' Resignations
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(Aug. 12) -- The Vatican has decided not to accept the resignations of two Irish bishops in the wake of a report that found widespread sexual abuse in the Dublin diocese boys' institutions, setting off a storm of complaints. Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field announced their decisions to quit in December, saying that by doing so they hoped to bring "peace and reconciliation" to the victims. The two were auxiliary bishops in Dublin when a report issued in November by the Murphy Commission found that sexual abuse of boys was "endemic," but that the perpetrators had been protected by the Roman ...
Bishops Nod to Health Care Reform, but Stick to Their Story
By David Gibson - Politics DailyNearly two days after the passage of a health care reform bill that they wanted to support but nearly wound up killing, the U.S. Catholic bishops on Tuesday issued a statement that welcomes aspects of the package but vows to monitor its provisions on abortion financing and to push for legislative fixes. "Many in Congress and the administration, as well as individuals and groups in the Catholic community, have repeatedly insisted that there is no federal funding for abortion in this statute and that strong conscience protection has been assured," Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president ...
It's the Priests vs. the Nuns -- Again
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyOn the issue of health care reform, it's the priests vs. the nuns, with a coalition of the Catholic sisters who lead 60 different religious orders backing the proposed law, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposing it. Both camps are strongly anti-abortion, mind you, yet read the reform differently on that issue. The split along gender lines -- an echo of the old Catholic school system of seating the girls on one side of the room and the boys on the other -- is certainly nothing new; in fact, women have been challenging their brothers in Christ at least as far back as Catherine of ...
Abortion Language in Health Bill Pits Catholic Against Catholic
By David Gibson - Politics DailyDemocratic leaders and faith-based supporters of health care reform on Thursday stepped up their campaign to convince the public -- and perhaps a few pro-life House members whose votes are critical to passage -- that the legislation does not fund abortions and in fact would reduce abortions. "I will be 81 years old in September. Certainly at this point in my life I'm not going to change my mind and support abortion and I'm not going to risk my eternal salvation," Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Mich.), a Catholic and staunch opponent of abortion, told reporters on a conference call organized by Faith in ...
Priests Pressure Notre Dame to Reconsider Obama Invite
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyTen Catholic priests of the the order that founded the University of Notre Dame and help it maintain its Catholic character have written a letter to university president Rev. John Jenkins, a fellow member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, asking him to reconsider an invitation to President Barack Obama to give the university's commencement address and receive an honorary degree. The priests are concerned about President Obama's support of abortion rights, and warned the university that allowing the president to speak on its campus, "will damage the integrity of the institution.""[Notre ...
Church Criticism of Obama Invite Grows
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyCardinal Daniel DiNardo, the Archbishop of Houston, joined a growing list of bishops and lay Catholics to denounce the University of Notre Dame for inviting President Barack Obama to speak at its commencement ceremonies this spring. DiNardo becomes the first American Cardinal to criticize the university for extending the invitation to Obama, who unabashedly supports what some call the most extreme view of abortion rights of any president since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision of the Supreme Court in 1973. Four other Catholic bishops, including Bishop John D'Arcy of the Northern Indiana ...
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