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Former American cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with indecent assault on a child over 14 for an incident that police say occurred at Wellesley College in 1974. Wellesley police have charged McCarrick with the crime, said David Traub, spokesman for the Norfolk County District Attorney's office, in
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An approximately 50-year-old Long Island resident is accusing the Roman Catholic bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire of "fondling and groping" the person's genitals on "numerous occasions" when the accuser was about 13, according to a lawsuit. On one occasion, according to the complaint, an
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Calling Claire Cronin "an abortion extremist," the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts says her nomination to become the next U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Ireland demonstrates the failure of U.S. Catholic bishops to hold Catholic politicians who support abortion accountable to their faith. Cronin, a
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Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch said he tried to get at least one state legislator in Quincy to vote against the ROE Act abortion expansion bill in December 2020, but couldn't. Koch, 58, an independent who left the Democratic Party over abortion in 2017, spoke Thursday night at a
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The salutatorian walked to the podium, she being the first of a handful of speakers at the college graduation. I have heard these student speeches before, often filled with prideful recognition – "look what we accomplished" – or ideology stemmed from relevant trends, and not from a well-formed conscience. But,
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Massachusetts Republicans lost control of the state House of Representatives in 1948 because they managed to get themselves seen as taking an anti-Catholic position on birth control. Now, many Republicans in the state are demanding that a Catholic chairman of the party disavow Catholic teaching about marriage and children or
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Editor's Note: Jim Lyons, the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, sent out a written statement through the party late Friday, June 4, 2021 addressing calls for a member of the Massachusetts State Republican Committee to resign over email messages she sent expressing disapproval of the adoption of
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A supporter of abortion in the United States and around the world is the scheduled commencement speaker at the College of the Holy Cross. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, plans to give the main address via video hookup during the graduation ceremony Friday morning
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