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Report abuse learned in confession or go to jail, says Australian state
A new law requires priests in the state of Queensland to break the seal of confession to report child sex abuse to police or face three years in jail. A similar law is in place in four other states.
Proposed class-action suit claims negligence by Vancouver Archdiocese
The suit claims the archdiocese was "systematically negligent" in protecting parishioners from abuse by clergy. Three other Canadian dioceses face similar class-action suits.
Pope Francis will sign new encyclical in Assisi Oct. 3
The letter on the social, political and economic obligations that flow from a belief that all people are children of God will be signed on the eve of St. Francis' feast day.
Sister McNamee, ‘one of the giants in Catholic education,’ dies at 89
She was the first woman president of the National Catholic Educational Association, president of a women's university and held other positions of leadership in Catholic education.
Bishop-designate of Duluth resigns following abuse accusation
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Father Michel J. Mulloy, who had been appointed but not installed as bishop. A sexual-abuse allegation surfaced against him from the 1980s.
Cardinal Jaworski, once a ‘secret cardinal,’ dies at 94
Cardinal Marian Jaworski, a close friend of St. John Paul II since the 1950s and former Latin-rite archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine, died Sept. 5.
Profit over safety, especially in pandemic, ‘unjust,’ says Labor Day statement
"What was wrong before the pandemic has been accelerated now. What may have been hidden to some is now revealed," said the head of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.
Montco parish opens school year with outdoor Mass
Some 200 students, parents, teachers and staff gathered at St. Mary's in Schwenksville for a Sept. 3 liturgy that invoked the Holy Spirit's aid as in-person classes resume.
Economy must place people above ‘idols of finance,’ pope says
The pandemic should prompt a paradigm shift in economics that places the good of the many over the benefit of the few, Pope Francis said. He called for a slow down of the "inhuman pace of consumption and production."
Lack of respect for life, for nature have same root, pope says
Speaking to lay advisers of the French bishops on the environment, Pope Francis spoke of ecological conversion and decried indifference, selfishness and greed.