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Pope Benedict has named Archbishop Jose Gomez, 58, of San Antonio, Texas, to the position of coadjutor for Los Angeles, which puts him next in line to become the diocese’s cardinal — becoming America’s first Latino cardinal. Gomez, who was born in Mexico, is an archbishop of Opus Dei, the conservative Catholic movement that most people…

The Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse scandal has hit a new country: India. The Associated Press and The New York Times report that while working in a Minnesota diocese five years ago, the Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul allegedly molested two teenage girls. Jeyapaul denies committing the crimes, but also refuses to return to America to face…

The clergy sex abuse scandal didn’t elicit further statements of regret from Catholic Church leaders over the weekend, but two peripheral apologies did make headlines: The Vatican’s struggle over its response to the scandal was compounded by the controversial Good Friday homily by Pope Benedict’s personal preacher, who compared the pontiff’s recent suffering to the “collective…

The First Family has decided not to join a church — President Obama says they decided their presence, and the security required, is too disruptive and distracting to the others on a weekly basis — but they did attend Easter Sunday services again, this time choosing a historically black Methodist Church in Southeast Washington, a…
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