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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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A bombshell letter calling out Pope Francis for his chummy association with a cardinal known to have sexually abused seminarians also questions Cardinal Sean O'Malley's denial that he knew anything about the now-disgraced churchman's past. "Regarding Cardinal Sean O'Malley, I would
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Cardinal Sean O'Malley says he didn't know about former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's sexual abuse of teen-age boys and young-adult seminarians and that he never saw a letter from a New York priest three years ago describing McCarrick's troubling behavior. "Allegations regarding
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Maine Governor Paul LePage went to a hospital in New Brunswick on Saturday after feeling "discomfort" and later was transferred to a hospital in Bangor, Maine. A spokesman said the governor is stable and in good spirits, but didn't offer specifics about his condition, according to
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You'll know things are getting better in the Roman Catholic Church if by the end of the week at least 15 high-ranking bishops have resigned because of what they have done and what they have failed to do about clerics committing sexual abuse. One of those should be
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Longtime U.S. Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) died Saturday. McCain, 81, served 36 years in Congress, and was the 2008 Republican nominee for president.
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Leigha Genduso, who became a Massachusetts state trooper despite having admitted in 2007 in open court that she had sold drugs, helped her then-live-in boyfriend launder money from his drug dealing, and lied to a grand jury, has resigned from the Massachusetts State Police. A State Police investigation found that
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The Texas Rangers have confirmed that a body found earlier this week is that of Father Bill Costello, 71, a former pastor on Cape Cod and elsewhere in the Diocese of Fall River. Law enforcement officials on Thursday said Costello was still officially missing, but on Friday afternoon they confirmed
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The $960 million MGM Springfield casino opened with a parade and other festivities Friday, the first day full-fledged gambling has ever been allowed legally in Massachusetts. Local officials and residents of Springfield, one of the poorest cities in the state, are hoping the new casino will revive their downtown and