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‘A healing journey’: Residential school survivors and the Church

Following the pope’s apology, can Indigenous residential school survivors forgive the Catholic Church?

Al Jazeera · Jun 12, 2022

With bishops like these, it’s hard to be Catholic in the US

To flip the famed line from “The Godfather Part III,” just when I think I might return to the Catholic Church, they pull me back out.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 11, 2022

Salvadoran women jailed for abortion warn US of total ban

El Salvador has one of the world’s strictest abortion laws, banning the procedure in all circumstances including cases of rape, incest, fetal malformation and risk to a pregnant woman's life

The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2022

Nigeria church attack: What, where and why?

Gunmen with explosives stormed a Catholic church in Ondo state and opened fire, killing at least 50 people.

Al Jazeera · Jun 6, 2022

‘Evil and wicked’: At least 50 killed in Nigeria church attack

At least 50 dead including many children as attackers targeted the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state.

Al Jazeera · Jun 5, 2022

Canada Indigenous leaders want pope to visit more locations

Indigenous leaders have met with Canadian bishops and were told that Pope Francis won't add more stops to his trip to Canada, when he will apologize in person for abuse suffered by Indigenous people at the hands of the Catholic church

The Independent UK · Jun 1, 2022

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican power broker for decades under two popes, dies at 94

Cardinal Angelo Sodano — a controversial Vatican power broker for more than a quarter of a century who was accused of covering up one of the Catholic Church's most notorious sex abusers — dies at the age of 94.

ABC News · May 28, 2022

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican power who dismissed sexual abuse, dies

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a controversial Vatican power broker for more than a quarter of a century who was accused of covering up one of the Catholic Church's most notorious sex abusers, has died at the age of 94.

Reuters · May 28, 2022

Editorial: The Southern Baptist blasphemy

While the Catholic Church has spent much of the last three decades wrestling with deeply painful revelations of priestly sexual abuse and the bishops’ callous disregard for the people in their care, many American Protestant denominations self-righteously wagged fingers at the Catholic hierarchy for tolerating pedophile priests when they knew…

Tribune News Service · May 27, 2022

The Catholic Church's views on exorcism have changed – a religious studies scholar explains why

In September 2021, a 3-year-old was killed during an exorcism in a small Pentecostal church in San Jose, California. The child’s throat was allegedly squeezed and her head held down during the ceremony, which likely asphyxiated her. In May 2022, three members of the victim’s family were charged with felony…

The Conversation · May 24, 2022