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Vatican to Issue Long-awaited Sex Abuse Document
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Associated Press – July 7, 2010 VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will soon issue a document outlining the church’s procedures for handling clerical sex abuse cases that will gather the norms now in use and make them permanent and legally binding, a Vatican official and canon lawyer said Tuesday. The “instruction” from the Congregation…
A Gay Bishop for the Church of England?
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Associated Press – July 6, 2010 LONDON – The Church of England may be on the verge of promoting a gay priest to bishop, a step that would widen the split over sexuality in the global Anglican Communion. If that happens, it would appear to be a significant turnaround for Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams,…
Commuter Railroad Defends Company with Ties to Holocaust Trains
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WASHINGTON (RNS) A commuter rail line in suburban Washington is defending its decision to award a contract to a company partially owned by a French railway that was used by Nazi Germany to transport people to death camps. Mark Roeber, a spokesman for Virginia Railway Express (VRE), said complaints raised by Holocaust survivors in a…
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