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Analysis: Pope Francis' position on Venezuela
On: 2/19/2019, Andrea Gagliarducci , In: World
Vatican City, Feb 16, 2019 CNA.- Pope Francis’ recent letter to Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro confirmed the Holy See’s position on the Venezuelan crisis, while demonstrating that Maduro has become an increasingly isolated global ...

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Analysis: Pope Francis' position on Venezuela
On: 2/19/2019, Andrea Gagliarducci , In: World
Vatican City, Feb 16, 2019 CNA.- Pope Francis’ recent letter to Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro confirmed the Holy See’s position on the Venezuelan crisis, while demonstrating that Maduro has become an increasingly isolated global ...

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Vatican summit: Silence, denial are unacceptable, archbishop says
On: 2/18/2019, Cindy Wooden , In: World
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When presented with an accusation that a priest has sexually abused a child, "whether it's criminal or malicious complicity and a code of silence or whether it is denial" on a very human level, such reactions are no longer tolerable, ...

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Cardinal O'Malley's statement on defrocking of Archbishop McCarrick
On: 2/16/2019, Pilot Staff , In: Local
The Archdiocese of Boston released the following statement from Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley regarding the dismissal of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick from the clerical state -- Editor. Today Pope Francis rendered as final and irrevocable the recent ...

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McCarrick removed from the priesthood after being found guilty of abuse
On: 2/16/2019, Cindy Wooden , In: World
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has confirmed the removal from the priesthood of Theodore E. McCarrick, the 88-year-old former cardinal and archbishop of Washington. The Vatican announced the decision Feb. 16, saying he was found guilty of "solicitation ...

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In the U.S., a sobering mood after news of McCarrick's laicization
On: 2/16/2019, Rhina Guidos , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The accusations surrounding former U.S. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick have been hanging over U.S. bishops and faith communities in the dioceses and archdioceses where he served -- New York, Metuchen and Newark in New Jersey, and ...

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Analysis: Pope Francis' position on Venezuela

Vatican City, Feb 16, 2019 CNA.- Pope Francis’ recent letter to Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro confirmed the Holy See’s position on the Venezuelan crisis, while demonstrating that Maduro has become an increasingly isolated global figure.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When presented with an accusation that a priest has sexually abused a child, "whether it's criminal or malicious complicity and a code of silence or whether it is denial" on a very human level, such reactions are no longer tolerable, said the Vatican's top investigator of abuse cases.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The accusations surrounding former U.S. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick have been hanging over U.S. bishops and faith communities in the dioceses and archdioceses where he served -- New York, Metuchen and Newark in New Jersey, and Washington -- since last year.

A Hub native who was raised in St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Allston, Father Paul F. Bailey died in his home in Harwich on Feb. 6, 2019. He was the son of the late Thomas and Gertrude (O'Brien) Bailey. He was born on Jan. 17, 1932, and was educated at St. Anthony Grammar School and Boston College High School, prior to his entering the archdiocesan seminaries at Jamaica Plain (Cardinal O'Connell) and Brighton (St. John).

The winter months are often a time of year when many people are called home to God, and in recent days we have lost three fine priests of the Archdiocese of Boston -- Father Paul Bailey and Father Vincent Maffei and Bishop Walter Edyvean.

CARVER -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley visited Our Lady of Lourdes Church on Feb. 3 to celebrate Mass and bless the newly renovated building. Our Lady of Lourdes is part of a collaborative with St. Peter Parish and St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish in Plymouth. When Father Joseph Raeke was assigned to the collaborative in June 2018, it did not take long for him to decide they needed to renovate the worship space, which was located in a former drugstore.