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French Police Find 9 Pounds Of Cocaine In A Vatican Car
Police in France found cocaine and marijuana in a vehicle with Holy See diplomatic plates belonging to Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia. Pope Francis may have often spoken out against the “evil” of drug use, but the Vatican was facing embarrassment on Tuesday after 9 pounds of cocaine was found in a car bearing diplomatic plates associated with the Holy See. The car, which was stopped and searched in France, belonged to Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia, who had entrusted it to two Italian men.
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Pope Francis Says Coronavirus May Be Symptom of Climate Crisis
Pope Francis spoke about the novel coronavirus, suggesting the pandemic might be one of nature's responses to the man-made climate crisis.
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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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'Inequitable': Pope indirectly criticises Trump's Israel-Palestine plan
Pope Francis on Sunday criticised "inequitable solutions" to the Palestine-Israel conflict, in his first remarks since the US President Donald Trump announced his controversial Middle East plan last month. Speaking at a conference of bishops from the Mediterranean in the southern Italian city of Bari, the pope appeared to give a thumbs down to Trump's plan, without naming it.
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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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Three more altar boys claim they were abused by priests in Vatican
Italian TV show to reveal alleged abuse at Vatican’s youth seminary in 1980s and 90s
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Catholic Church Paid $213 Million To 4,445 Children Sexually Abused By Pedophile Priests In Australia
These days, the Roman Catholic Church is synonymous with child sexual abuse. We owe nobody an apology for saying this. It's the truth. Cases of child sexual abuse and subsequent cover-ups committed during the 20th and 21st centuries by Catholic priests, nuns, and members of the Roman Catholic Order have led to numerous allegations, investigations, trials and convictions. Read more at: http://www.social-consciousness.com/2017/06/catholic-church-paid-213-million-4445-children-sexually-abused-pedophile-priests-in-australia.html?m=1
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Pope, urging prayers, says Amazon forest vital for our Earth
Pope Francis said Sunday that the Amazon forest is vital for our Earth and is urging prayers that fires there are quickly controlled. Francis added his voice to the chorus of international concern that the blazes in Brazil will have grave repercussions on the world’s environmental health.
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How Catholic clergy ruled alongside the 'gay mafia', despots, and rent boys in Latin America
While all eyes are on the Catholic Church for its handling of child sexual abuse among clergy, the Latin American clergy ran fiefdoms alongside the continent's autocrats for decades.
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Pope Francis declares 'climate emergency' and urges action
Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency”, warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations”.
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Abused nuns reveal stories of rape, forced abortions
Another scandal is engulfing the Catholic Church. At a time when the Vatican has taken its most concrete steps to address a long ordeal with sex abuse and coverups, a growing chorus of nuns is speaking out about the suffering they have endured at the hands of the priesthood, including rape, forced abortion, emotional abuse and labor exploitation. Special correspondent Christopher Livesay reports.
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Most Canadians think Catholic Church has handled sexual abuse scandal poorly: poll
Almost eight in 10 Canadians say the Catholic Church has done a poor job of handling clerical sexual abuse and more than half of practising Catholics agree, a new poll says. The Angus Reid survey questioned 1,611 Canadians about how the decade of abuse allegations has affected their beliefs and opinions on the church.
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Poland shaken by documentary about pedophile priests
A new documentary revealing new cases of pedophilia by priests has deeply shaken Poland, one of Europe's most Roman Catholic societies, eliciting an apology from the church hierarchy and prompting one priest to leave the clergy.
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Divine intervention: Vatican aide defies police to restore power to homeless shelter
Pope Francis aide, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski crawls into manhole to return power for hundreds of homeless in unused state-owned building
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Pope Francis decried as heretic by conservatives
Conservatives are demanding Catholic bishops to denounce the Pope with fresh accusations of 'heresy'.
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Why Predators Are Attracted to Careers in the Clergy
The eye-catching headline read, “Which Professions Have The Most Psychopaths?” (The Week, October 30, 2013) What ensued was quite a dialogue on the internet, as everyone seemed to have their own favorite picks or a personal horror story. The article stimulated debate, but unfortunately did not add clarity to a worthy subject. And that subject is: Why would a so-called “psychopath” be found in greater numbers in one profession versus another?
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Pope Francis donates $500,000 to migrants at US border
The Vatican says media interest in the migrants is declining -- as is aid.
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Pope says priests kept nuns as sex slaves
Pope Francis has admitted that clerics have sexually abused nuns, and in one case they were kept as sex slaves. He said in that case his predecessor, Pope Benedict, was forced to shut down an entire congregation of nuns who were being abused by priests. It is thought to be the first time that Pope Francis has acknowledged the sexual abuse of nuns by the clergy.
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Pope Won’t Accept Resignation of Cardinal Convicted of Ignoring Child Sex Abuse
It should’ve been easy for the Catholic Church to rid itself of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin. Earlier this month, he announced he would resign from the Church after a secular court found him guilty of not reporting a pedophile priest who had sexually abused minors.
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