The Vatican announced Monday that the world’s cardinals, assembling in Rome next week to welcome two dozen new members to their ranks, will gather a day early for “reflection and prayer” on several topics, including the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The late Pope John Paul II brought together American cardinals at the Vatican for two [...]
The private Web site WikiLeaks, acting through several news organizations it selected, released a massive batch of classified Iraq war-related documents, which contain no dramatic new revelations but provide critical “context” to the war and the U.S. role from 2003 through 2009, the New York Times reported.The Pentagon protested the release of the documents, saying [...]
The U.S. Army, under the accumulating stress of nine years at war, is suffering an alarming spurt of drug abuse, crime and suicide that is going unchecked, according to an internal study that depicts an Army in crisis. A small but growing number of soldiers who perform credibly in combat turn to high-risk behavior, including [...]
Pope Benedict XVI has for months been battered by criticism over his history of dealing quietly with sex abuse by clergy, but in October he could make his most eloquent response yet when he canonizes a 19th-century Australian nun who was once excommunicated in part because she complained about priests who molested children. Mother Mary [...]
Even though a June raid of Catholic Church offices in Belgium has been ruled illegal, the government says an investigation of a sex abuse scandal involving priests can go forward. At the same time, an independent Belgian commission looking into charges of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy says it has received testimony from hundreds of [...]
If Pope Benedict XVI is trying to dig the Catholic Church out of the sex abuse scandal, he only seems to be making the hole deeper. That’s the apparent consensus after it was reported that the pope has rejected the resignations of two bishops in Ireland who asked to quit last December after they were [...]
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