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Null / Credit: Brian A Jackson / ShutterstockWashington D.C., May 15, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Parish priest Michael Zacharias, 56, was convicted on five counts of sex trafficking by a federal jury in the Northern District of Ohio last Friday.Zacharias has been on administrative leave from the Diocese of Toledo since he was arrested on August 18, 2020. His crimes, committed between 1999 to 2020, involved three victims, two of whom were still minors when Zacharias began abusing them.The former pastor now faces a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of life in prison.His sentencing hearing ha...

Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California / Skier Dude|Wikipedia|CC BY-SA 3.0Boston, Mass., May 15, 2023 / 15:05 pm (CNA).The Diocese of Oakland, in California, has filed for bankruptcy protection, Bishop Michael Barber announced May 8. The filing comes less than a month following Barber's announcement that the diocese was strongly considering the legal maneuver due to hundreds of expected child sexual abuse lawsuits brought after the statute of limitations expired at the end of a three-year legal window.In 2019, the state of California passed legislation that granted...

Church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux, France. / Credit: Olivier432 - Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Denver Newsroom, May 16, 2023 / 09:05 am (CNA).Catholic clergy in France will soon carry a standardized identification card linked to a national database that shows whether they are currently in good standing and can celebrate Mass and hear confessions."It aims to prevent impostors [false priests or deacons] from continuing to act to the detriment of the faithful and the sacraments," the Conference of French Bishops' website said May 5. It noted that current paper documents can be f...

JMJ Pregnancy Center in Orlando, Florida / Photo courtesy of Bob PerronBoston, Mass., May 16, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).The FBI and local police have opened an investigation after three mutilated animals were left on the property of a pro-life pregnancy center in Orlando, Florida, last week. On May 10, a staff member from the facility discovered the decapitated corpses of a "very large" chicken, baby lamb, and another "large bird" in front of the clinic, according to Bob Perron, executive director of the Catholic-based JMJ Pregnancy Center.When the staff member informed hi...

Caritas Internationalis elected Alistair Dutton as its new secretary general on May 15, 2023, in Rome. He has been the chief executive of Caritas Scotland. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, May 16, 2023 / 09:45 am (CNA).Six months after Pope Francis dismissed its top administrators, Caritas Internationalis' new leadership team elected Alistair Dutton, who also serves on the board of Stop Climate Chaos and Jesuit Refugee Services, as its new secretary general Monday night.Dutton is the chief executive of Caritas Scotland, which works to build "a green and just world" by putting faith ...