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April 19, 2024
The pastor of a Catholic church in Michigan has resigned after receiving criticism over his response to learning that a gay author had read a book to small children at the parish school.
June 8, 2023
This investigation was launched days after lawyers with the monastery filed a suit accusing the Diocese of theft and defamation.
December 31, 2022
Four years after an Oakland priest seemingly vanished after being accused of sexually abusing two minors, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has new answers on...
November 23, 2021
Whether Stark County Catholic schools will be returning to a voluntary mask policy has yet to be decided.
October 6, 2021
Callers to my program noted that New Bedford Catholics have not lost their faith, just their faith in the Catholic Church, which has become 'unrelatable.'
April 21, 2021
Democrat and Chronicle objected to the practice. Gannett Co. Inc., the parent corporation of the Rochester newspaper, filed a motion to intervene in the diocese’s bankruptcy proceeding “in order to enforce the public’s right of access.” The diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2019, saying it could not afford to pay the compensation being demanded in a flood of new civil suits alleging sexual abuse by its priests in past decades. Hundreds of claims have ...
March 11, 2021
Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington is discouraging area Catholics from taking the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. A statement issued March 1 says the dioceses position is informed by guidance from the The Vatican, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and The National Catholic Bioethics Center. The entities contend there are moral and ethical issues based on the use of decades-old fetal tissue in the development of the vaccine. "It is under the same guidance that the...