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Fear leads to silence amid suffering of sick, needy, pope says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Favio Frustaci, EPA By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Fear often causes people to remain silent in the face of other’s suffering and marginalize the sick and those most in need, Pope Francis said. Instead of being viewed as “an occasion to manifest care and solidarity,” …
Clear response to abuse crisis is urgently needed, cardinal says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Responding quickly and appropriately to the problem of abuse must be a priority for the Catholic Church, said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. “Recent events in the church have …
Letter confirms Vatican officials knew of McCarrick allegations in 2000
By Robert Duncan and Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A top official from the Vatican Secretariat of State acknowledged allegations made by a New York priest in 2000 concerning Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, according to a letter obtained by Catholic News Service. Father Boniface Ramsey, pastor of St. …
Bishop Murry, ‘cancer-free,’ details action against abuse in Ohio diocese
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Pete Sheehan YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (CNS) — On his first day back at work Sept. 4, Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown spoke happily of his return, but he also addressed the somber subject of the sex abuse crisis now in the news. In April, he …
Cardinal Wuerl addresses church’s ‘pain, confusion and disillusionment’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard By Mark Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — Addressing the clergy abuse crisis in the church will require “wider lay engagement, more realized accountability and evident transparency,” said Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl at the end of a Sept. 2 Mass in Washington. In remarks after …
Silence is Christ’s response to lies, divisiveness, pope says at Mass
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Jesus himself showed that the best way to respond to scandal and divisiveness is to stay silent and pray, Pope Francis said Sept. 3 as he resumed his early morning Masses with invited guests. “With people lacking good will, with people who seek …
Pope: Pray, act to protect clean water, guarantee access to it
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Water is a gift of God that makes life possible and yet millions of people do not have access to safe drinking water, and rivers, seas and oceans continue to be polluted, Pope Francis said. “Care for water sources and water basins is …
Former nuncio now says sanctions against McCarrick were ‘private’
By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former nuncio to the United States who called on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly lifting sanctions placed on Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, now says those “sanctions” were “private” and neither he nor now-retired Pope Benedict XVI ever was …
Australian bishops, religious say they can’t violate seal of confession
IMAGE: CNS photo/Royal Commission By SYDNEY, Australia (CNS) — Australia’s Catholic bishops and religious orders, responding to recommendations from the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, accepted 98 percent of its suggestions, but said they could not accept recommendations that would violate the seal of confession. “We …
Bishop echoes pope: The poor’s plight is ‘the Gospel, pure and simple’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jim West By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — Echoing what Pope Francis said during a Mass in May, the bishop who heads the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development said, “The struggle of working people, of the poor” is not first a “social or political …