But opponents see it as a slippery slope toward ordaining women to the priesthood.
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Pope changes death penalty teaching, now ‘inadmissible’
Previously the the Catholic Church didn’t exclude the possibility of capital punishment but only as the last recourse against an ‘unjust aggressor.’
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Pope strips U.S. cardinal of title after sexual abuse claims
Prelate Theodore McCarrick offered his resignation from the College of Cardinals after a spate of allegations that he for years abused boys and had sexual misconduct with adult seminarians.
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Disgraced former pastor gets 18 years for assaults on kids
Harry Thomas, 75, who co-founded the Creation Festival, billed as the country’s largest Christian music festival, expresses remorse for pain he’s caused.
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Vatican meets #MeToo: Nuns denounce their abuse by priests
Sisters around the world are coming out of the cloister at the risk of being disbelieved and shamed.
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Winthrop Center Friends Church to celebrate 225 years of presence in Winthrop
The event Saturday is scheduled to include a historical lecture about the church at 2 p.m., followed by refreshments.
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Ex-priest accused of abuse allowed access to Chicago schools
Cleric Bruce Wellems was forced to leave the priesthood for sexually abusing a boy of 6 when he was around 15.
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Bath native assigned to Waterville area Catholic churches
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland has appointed the Rev. Patrick Finn parochial vicar of Corpus Christi Parish.
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Pope says abortion is ‘white glove’ equivalent to Nazi crimes
Francis urges families to accept children ‘as God gives them to us.’
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Here’s how liberals, conservatives picture God
Liberals imagine someone ‘more feminine, younger and more loving,’ while conservatives have a ‘powerful’ white guy in mind, researchers say.