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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A Roman Catholic priest pleaded innocent Thursday to charges he molested an 11-year-old altar...
Even within the Roman Catholic Church, there is debate over how to handle this revival of interest. Angels are still important in Catholic devotions and are included in the new Catholic catechism. From childhood, Catholic children have learned the "Prayer to the Guardian Angel," and those who attended Catholic school were often told to leave a little room at their desks for their guardian angels. But the church remains suspicious of reports of supernatural interventions, notes Lawrence Cunningham, chairman of the theology department at Notre Dame. Cunningham has little use for the present popular fervor. "If people want...
Sullivan cited the Universal Catechism of the Holy Roman Church, which says, "A not negligible number of men and women have pronounced sexual tendencies," as proof in support for his argument...
...inquiry commissioned by the Franciscan Order of the Roman Catholic Church found that sexual abuse took place at St. Anthony's Seminary in Santa Barbara for more than 20 years. The yearlong investigation uncovered proof that at least 34 boys were molested by 11 friars from 1964 to 1987. Prosecutions are not expected, however, as the six-year statute of limitations on sex crimes...
...throw from St. Peter's Square, above the terminus of the No. 64 bus, a line infamous for pickpockets. Each morning he sets off on foot at a brisk pace, crossing over cobblestones to arrive at 9 a.m. at the palazzo that once bore the title of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. Soft-spoken and courteous, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 66, looks too benign to be an inquisitor. But his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Roman Inquisition's latest incarnation, and as the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, the Cardinal stands in direct succession...