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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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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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Pope Francis released a letter Monday condemning sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests and bishops and calling for involvement by laypeople to address the problem. The pope's letter, which refers to the recently released grand jury report that identified more than 1,000 victims of more
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Roman Catholic bishops in America need accountability, legal transparency, and lay involvement to solve the continuing clergy sex abuse scandal, Cardinal Sean O'Malley said. O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, released a 632-word statement Thursday afternoon in the wake of a Pennsylvania grand jury report earlier this
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Pope Francis likes the big gesture. You can almost imagine him waving his meaty arm in a wide sweep while tossing off some breathtaking statement to a surprised aide. Here's one: Invite all bishops in the United States to tell the pope in person what they knew about
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Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of the Diocese of Providence hesitantly joined Twitter last February, warning that "I need a heavy dose of prudence in things that I post, because I don't use a lot of filters," he told the Crux online publication. Bishop Tobin disabled his
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In a result that was not nearly as close as the final tally indicated, the Massachusetts Senate voted in January to abolish the pre-Roe v. Wade state laws on abortion by a tally of 38-0. That's 38 state senators voting to eliminate laws restricting abortion in the Commonwealth.
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The Massachusetts House of Representatives has passed a bill banning so-called "conversion therapy" for children – but only after dropping a provision that would have defined seeking it as child abuse. The measure would make it illegal for licensed mental-health therapists to offer techniques for patients under 18 years
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