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Philippine bishop: Duterte’s drug war is ‘illegal, immoral and anti-poor’
President Rodrigo Duterte ran for office promising a crackdown on drug use, and since he took office in 2016, rights groups say more than 20,000 people have been killed in extrajudicial killings, mostly carried out by the country's police.
Religious superiors admit denial, slowness to act against abuse
Twisted ideas of power and authority in the Catholic Church have contributed to the clerical sexual abuse crisis, leaders of religious orders said, but sometimes the positive "sense of family" in their own communities also made them slow to act.
Pope lifts suspension imposed on Nicaraguan priest 34 years ago
Pope Francis has lifted the canonical penalties imposed 34 years ago on Father Ernesto Cardenal, 94, the Nicaraguan poet and former member of the Sandinista government.
Vatican summit: Silence, denial are unacceptable, archbishop says
Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who handles abuse cases as adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was part of a panel of speakers at a news conference Feb. 18 to outline the Vatican's plans and hopes for the summit meeting on the protection of minors in the church.
Philadelphia Ukrainian Catholics welcome new metropolitan archbishop
UPDATED - Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Borys Gudziak, 58, a native of Syracuse, N.Y. who has led the Paris-based Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Volodymyr the Great, to head the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
In the U.S., a sobering mood after news of McCarrick’s laicization
Even though the Vatican stripping McCarrick of his clerical status Feb. 16 was expected, the news cast a somber mood over those faith communities already grappling with what had happened while he was among them in the past.
DiNardo: Action on McCarrick ‘clear signal’ church will not tolerate abuse
"No bishop, no matter how influential, is above the law of the church," said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston Feb. 16 after former Cardinal Theodore had been removed from the priesthood Feb. 16. "For all those McCarrick abused, I pray this judgment will be one small step, among many, toward healing."
Catholic bishops, groups speak against president’s national emergency
Catholic bishops near the U.S.-Mexico border, joined by other U.S. prelates, voiced opposition just after President Donald Trump's Feb. 15 declaration of a national emergency so he can order construction of a barrier along parts of the border between the two countries.
Timeline of McCarrick’s priesthood, ministry
See key events in the life of Theodore E. McCarrick, beginning with his ordination as a priest for the Archdiocese of New York more than 60 years ago and ending with his Feb. 26 removal from the priesthood.