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Benedict XVI’s Most Powerful Influence on the Catholic Church Came Before He Was Pope

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One of the most significant acts of the papacy of Benedict XVI, who died on New Year’s Eve, at the age of ninety-five, was, his obituaries seem to agree, his stepping down from it, in February, 2013. And rightly so: the first papal resignation in nearly six hundred years was a momentous act. It diminished the monarchic qualities of the papacy, making it more akin to an elective office with a limited term of service. It set a precedent for

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The Reinvention of the Catholic Church

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In May 2021, a time when public gatherings in England were strictly limited because of the coronavirus pandemic, the British tabloids were caught off guard by a stealth celebrity wedding in London. Westminster Cathedral—the “mother church” of Roman Catholics in England and Wales—was abruptly closed on a Saturday afternoon. Soon the groom and bride arrived: Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds, a Catholic and a former Conservative Party press officer with whom he had fathered a child the

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After Roe, abortion’s underground railroad gains steam – POLITICO

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RIGA — If you want to get an abortion in Poland, Kinga Jelinska is happy to help.

Legally terminating your pregnancy is almost impossible in the Eastern European country. Abortion is only allowed in the case of rape or incest, or when it threatens the life of the woman.

That’s where Jelinska comes in. She’s the co-founder and executive director of Women Help Women, an Amsterdam-based nonprofit that helps provide women with the

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A Catholic Podcasting Star Says Theocracy Is Not the Way

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There are things that, at first blush, might appear marginal but are in truth major. Since it was introduced by the Catholic priest Mike Schmitz, who goes by Father Mike, in January 2021, the little-heralded “The Bible in a Year (With Fr. Mike Schmitz)” has been the most popular Apple religion podcast for a majority of 2021 and 2022 and has even, on two occasions, reached the No. 1 spot among all podcasts on Apple’s platform. The show has

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What Northern Ireland is really voting for – POLITICO

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Unless the polls are badly wrong, Northern Ireland is about to take one step closer to breaking away from the United Kingdom and uniting with the Republic of Ireland.

When voters go to the polls this week to elect a new government, it will likely mark a watershed moment for the British region, with the nationalist Sinn Féin set to become the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

But don’t expect most

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Covid US: Chicago Catholic school principal placed on leave after making masks optional

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Dozens of parents and children held a protest outside their suburban Chicago Catholic school after the principal of was placed on leave for announcing that masks would be optional for children and teachers.

Doc Mathius announced he was dropping the mask mandate at Queen of Martyrs Catholic School in Evergreen Park, Chicago last week – in defiance of the Archdiocese of Chicago who have mandated masks across its schools.

The Archdiocese responded quickly by placing the popular principal on disciplinary

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Watchdog Groups Sue Biden Administration for Communications with Catholic Organizations on Migrants

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Migranten aus Mittelamerika werden aus privatem Land eskortiert, als sie von Agenten der US-Grenzpatrouille festgenommen werden, nachdem sie am 27. April 2021 in La Joya, Texas, den Fluss Rio Grande von Mexiko aus überquert haben. (Nakamura/Reuters)

Zwei Überwachungsgruppen verklagen das Department of Homeland Security und das Department of Health and Human Services wegen Aufzeichnungen über die Kommunikation mit katholischen Organisationen, die an der Unterstützung von Migranten an der Grenze zwischen den USA und Mexiko beteiligt sind.

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Pope Francis expresses his ‘shame’ at scale of French Catholic Church child abuse of 330,000 victims

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Pope Francis today expressed his personal shame at the scale of child abuse carried out by clergy in France’s Catholic Church that saw attacks on 330,000 children. 

The pontiff told of his ‘sadness’ for the victims after a damning report found nuns used crucifixes to rape girls during decades of abuse which was covered up by a ‘veil of silence’.

The 2,500-page landmark report was released Tuesday after more than two years of investigations by an independent commission, in France’s

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The Catholic Church’s Latest Scandal Is Really Strange

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Once, it was said that the eyes were the windows to the soul. Now the cellphone is. Consider Jeffrey Burrill, a man who regularly logged in to the gay dating app Grindr and whose cellphone emitted signals marking his visits to gay bars and a Las Vegas gay bathhouse. Hardly a story there, you might say.

Except Jeffrey Burrill was Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, the secretary-general of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. And his July 20 resignation was forced

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