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Rome is using this day of rest to stir a debate that never seems to rest: The Vatican on Sunday denied that its celibacy requirement for priests was the root cause of the clerical sex abuse scandal convulsing the church in Europe and again defended the pope’s handling of the crisis. Suggestions that the celibacy…

Pius XII has his boosters, and his critics. But he has at least one big fan from my own backyard — who also just happens to be Jewish: At home here on Long Island, he is Gary L. Krupp, medical equipment dealer, now retired after a career of ups and downs. He shares one car…

It seems some in Britain don’t want taxpayer money to pay for the pontiff’s upcoming trip to the UK: A petition protesting against Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain later this year is to be handed in to Downing Street by the National Secular Society. It calls on the prime minister to exempt taxpayers from…

Evidently, that idea was floated during the recent meeting between the Irish bishops and the pope. From the BBC: Two of the Vatican’s most senior officials have raised the issue of reducing the number of dioceses in Ireland. The Bishop of Down and Connor, Dr Noel Treanor, told BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence it came…
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