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Church sex abuse is the elephant in the room as Pope Francis visits scandal-hit Portugal

Pope Francis is making a five-day visit next week to Portugal, where a scandal that erupted earlier this year over Catholic Church sex abuse is still simmering

The Independent UK

Acclaimed and outspoken Irish singer Sinead O’Connor dies at 56

Known for her shaved head and fierce voice, she shot to fame with her cover of Prince’s ballad ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’.

Al Jazeera

A look back at Sinéad O’Connor’s controversial Saturday Night Live protest in 1992

Sinead O’Connor's act of protest on Saturday Night Live was a defining moment of her career.

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Jesuits confirm expulsion of priest artist and lament Vatican norms preclude further sanction

The Jesuits say a famous artist priest has been definitively expelled from the religious order for sexually, spiritually and psychologically abusing women

The Independent UK

Kochi priest Immanuel Lopez declared Servant of God

Father Immanuel Lopez, born 1908 in Kochi, declared Servant of God by Varappuzha archbishop. First step of four to canonisation. Good Samaritan of Kochi, born into Anglo-Indian family, ordained priest 1934. 5,000 attended ceremony, biography released. Process supervised by Congregation for Causes of Saints.

The Hindu

Inside £425,000 cottage with secret underground escape tunnel built by Henry VIII

King Henry VIII built a secret underground tunnel at Hill View Cottage in Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, which went on to be used by Catholics to escape persecution - and is still intact

Daily Mirror

Wider than websites? LGBTQ+ advocates fear broader discrimination after Supreme Court ruling

A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing a Colorado Christian graphic artist to refuse to work on wedding websites for same-sex couples has LGBTQ+ people across the country worried about broader consequences

The Independent UK

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Thai business leader earns top Catholic honour

The Vatican has bestowed the Grand Cross of the Order, the highest rank in the Order of St Gregory the Great, to a Thai individual for his outstanding service to the Catholic Church and the wider community.

Bangkok Post

More than half a million left Germany's Catholic Church last year as abuse scandal swirls

More than half a million people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, significantly higher than the previous record as the church wrestles with a long-running scandal over abuse by clergy and with calls for far-reaching reform

The Independent UK

Driving to South America’s northernmost tip in Colombia

On the far north edge of Colombia there is a desert peninsula the size of Wales, where Arizona-like landscapes meet the sparkling waters of the Caribbean. Home to the indigenous Wayuu people, La Guajira is a place of great “beauty and strangeness”, said Ruaridh Nicoll in the Financial Times. The…

The Week

Black nun who founded first African American religious congregation advances closer to sainthood

The Black Catholic nun who founded the United States’ first African American religious congregation has advanced another step toward sainthood

The Independent UK

A high-profile French nun is inspiring hope for Catholic women. But can she really bring change?

A French nun is charting an unprecedented period of reform in the Catholic Church as one of the highest-ranking women at the Vatican

The Independent UK

'Hypocrisy': Calvary sues junior doctor after wage theft claims

Calvary's claims of good culture 'hypocritical and ridiculous'.

The Canberra Times

Events in Bolivia and Brazil may signal a turning point for the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis in Latin America

Demonstrations in Bolivia in recent weeks have been directed at a seemingly unusual target: the Catholic Church.

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The Independent UK

How Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis talks about his own Catholic faith on the presidential campaign trail

The presidential campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is busy courting white evangelicals – a key voting bloc for the GOP

The Independent UK

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis woos GOP Christian voters but stays tight-lipped on his own Catholic faith

The presidential campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is busy courting white evangelicals – a key voting bloc for the GOP

Bangkok Post

'We want to be free': Filipinos demand right to divorce

MANILA: Philippine mother-of-three Stella Sibonga is desperate to end a marriage she never wanted. But divorce in the Catholic-majority country is illegal, and a court annulment takes years.

The National (Scotland)

Calls to ditch 'historical hangover' of church reps voting on education boards

SCOTLAND must ditch a “historical hangover” of allowing unelected church representatives to vote on education matters, campaigners have insisted.

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Nicaragua government accuses Catholic Church of money laundering, freezes accounts

Nicaraguan police said on Saturday they are investigating several dioceses of the Catholic Church for money laundering, a day after local media reported that the bank accounts of parishes in the Central American country had been frozen.

The Independent UK

Another deceased Jesuit priest accused of sex abuse in Bolivia as pedophilia scandal grows

A Spanish Jesuit priest who died in 2012 has been accused of sexually abusing a minor in Bolivia three decades ago, the latest in a string of pedophilia cases that have shaken the Catholic Church in the Andean country

Chicago Sun-Times

Cupich’s lackluster response to alarming undercount of Catholic clergy sex abuse won’t cut it

There’s no room for anything other than full acceptance of the hard, brutal truth revealed by a five-year investigation: The Catholic Church in Illinois failed to acknowledge hundreds of allegedly abusive priests and other religious figures.

The Conversation

Vatican centralizes investigations on claims of Virgin Mary apparitions – but local Catholics have always had a say

The Vatican recently announced its plan to set up an “observatory” at one of its several academic institutions, the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis, to investigate claims of apparitions and other mystical phenomena attributed to the Virgin Mary.

Reuters

Pope calls for freedom of worship for Catholics in China

Pope Francis called on Wednesday for freedom of worship for Catholics in China, a religious minority that has faced historic harassment and persecution in the communist country, causing friction between the Vatican and Beijing.

Al Jazeera

Illinois probe reveals rampant sexual abuse in Catholic Church

The report names 451 clerics and religious brothers with substantiated claims of sexual abuse against them in the US.

Tribune News Service

Fact check: What the Baltimore Catholic archdiocese is saying about the Maryland attorney general’s report

BALTIMORE -- Archdiocese of Baltimore officials, particularly Archbishop William Lori, have responded in recent weeks to a report by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church with interviews, an FAQ and messages to parishioners across Central and Western Maryland.

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