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How QAnon and Trumpism Have Revealed a Deep Church Schism Among Catholics
Catholicism’s increasingly powerful political right reflects fringe America, fueled by paranoia, conspiracy, racism, and the threat of apocalypse.
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Pope returns to private library for audience as virus surges
Pope Francis urged people to follow recommendations from governments and health authorities to prevent coronavirus infections as he returned to his private library for his Wednesday general audience amid a surge of infections in Europe.
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Pope Francis appoints Wilton Gregory, an outspoken civil rights advocate, as first black American cardinal
Archbishop Wilton Gregory has been appointed the first African-American Roman Catholic cardinal.
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Pope met COVID-19 infected bishop at Vatican
Pope Francis has been warned of potential exposure to COVID-19 after a Vatican diplomat was infected, Australian media reported on Friday. Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, the Holy See’s ambassador to Australia, had a face-to-face meeting with Francis at the Vatican on Oct. 6, less than two weeks before testing positive to COVID-19 in Australia, Nine News reported. Australian authorities say a diplomat who flew into Sydney on Oct. 9 had tested positive to the coronavirus. They won’t reveal the diplomat’s identity. The diplomat tested positive 10 days after he started quarantining at home in the national...
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Pull investments from companies not committed to environment, pope says
Pope Francis on Saturday urged people to pull investments from companies that are not committed to protecting the environment, adding his voice to calls for the economic model that emerges from the coronavirus pandemic to be a sustainable one.
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Catholic church objections to promising Covid-19 vaccine
Church leaders have raised concerns the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine may include cell lines from an electively aborted fetus
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After lobbying, Catholic Church won $1.4 billion in coronavirus aid
The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.
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Survey Finds 30% of German Catholics Are Considering Leaving Church
A survey released Thursday found that 30% of German Catholics are considering leaving the Church. The poll, conducted by the research institute INSA Consulere for the Catholic weekly newspaper Die Tagespost, reported that almost a third of respondents agreed with the statement “I am a member of the Church and can imagine leaving the Church soon.”
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Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms
The Vatican urged Catholics on Thursday to disinvest from the armaments and fossil fuel industries and to closely monitor companies in sectors such as mining to check if they are damaging the environment.
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The Church: Code of Silence
Secret internal documents reveal how church officials have protected priests accused of pedophilia by moving them from country-to-country, sometimes as far away as to Africa. They call it 'the geographical solution'. Even Pope Francis is implicated. When he was bishop of Buenos Aires, he tried to influence the Argentinean justice system in order to protect a convicted priest. From Cameroon to Argentina, America to France and Italy, this investigation traces the transfers of pedophile priests.
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The virus is accelerating dechurching in America
When it comes to organised religion, the US is looking less and less exceptional
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Coronavirus drains Vatican coffers as income falls, deficits loom
Late last month, the Vatican announced the coronavirus pandemic had forced Pope Francis to postpone an annual fund raising campaign among Catholics worldwide to help him carry out his ministry.
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Poland's government is leading a Catholic revival. It has minorities and liberals worried
I'm in downtown Warsaw in the middle of Europe's biggest far-right rally and it's messing with my mind. The weird part isn't the souvenir stands selling anti-Muslim t-shirts or the angry young men wearing skull masks and chanting "faggots forbidden". That's standard for an ultranationalist rally.
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Some of the earliest coronavirus outbreaks were tied to religion
Religious gatherings have been blamed for spreading the virus.
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To hell with hell: Bart Ehrman debunks the Christian belief in perpetual torment
His take on the afterlife should certainly be balm to the 58 per cent of Americans still living in fear of a literal hell.
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As offerings dwindle, some churches fear for their future
NEW YORK (AP) — As in-person worship services are canceled or downsized amid the coronavirus outbreak, some churches across the U.S. are bracing for a painful drop in weekly contributions and...
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Coronavirus: Pope urges priests to meet with ‘the sick’
The Pope urged Catholic priests on Tuesday to “have the courage to go out and see” those sickened by the novel coronavirus. “Let us pray to the Lord also for our priests, that they may have the courage to go out and visit the sick... and to accompany the medical staff and volunteers in the work they do,” said the pontiff at a Mass for visiting clergy.
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Mandatory reporting laws for religious institutions come into effect
Laws requiring clergy to report child abuse to authorities — even if it's heard in the confession box — will come into effect on Monday, ending the "special treatment" for Victoria's religious institutions. The seal has now been lifted for the suspected sexual abuse of children, with spiritual and religious leaders required to report the abuse or face up to three years in prison.
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Latest numbers indicate shocking scope of Catholic Church sex abuse scandal
A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: the bar is set very high for Pope's first global summit on protecting youth from abuse in the Catholic Church; questions surround what Jody Wilson-Raybould aims to accomplish with regard to SNC-Lavalin affair.
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Pope Francis considers introducing new 'ecological sin'
Pope Francis is considering introducing 'ecological sins' in a new bid to battle climate change. Speaking in Rome on Friday, Pope Francis said it's 'a duty' to introduce the new sin to the Catholic Church's teachings as a way to protect 'our common home'.
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