The bishops' charter also contained no procedures for holding bishops accountable other than "fraternal correction" by fellow bishops.
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It also is loath to do so for bishops, because theologically speaking, defrocked bishops can still validly ordain priests and bishops.
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If bishops should be pastors, let pastors choose our bishops.
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The priests named in the report included monsignors, auxiliary bishops, bishops, archbishops, and cardinals.
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Last month, the US Catholic bishops' conference issued an apology for the role of bishops in the scandal and announced new initiatives to hold abusive or negligent bishops accountable.
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In a letter to the bishops, Francis said that merely removing the bishops would be insufficient.
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The executive committee of American bishops offered a set of proposals to keep bishops accountable, including creating a review board made up largely of lay people who would hear accusations against bishops.
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The outraged Pope Pius XII decreed that all bishops consecrating new bishops under its aegis would be excommunicated.
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"While the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops respects the governor, this decision is simply misguided," the bishops wrote.
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But Beijing sometimes appoints bishops against the Vatican's wishes, and the Vatican sometimes appoints bishops without Beijing's approval.
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" Bannon said the bishops "need illegal aliens to fill the churches," a charge the bishops called "preposterous" and "insulting.
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A few bishops appointed by Rome will cede their places to bishops who had been appointed by the Vatican.
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It would ask underground bishops — Bishop Guo and one other — to step aside and serve under government-appointed bishops.
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The central dispute is over the power to name new bishops and the fate of existing bishops in China.
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"Bishops have a sacred responsibility to lead, teach, and inspire youth," Nelson said in a statement to all bishops.
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US Catholic bishops announce new policies to police bishops Catholic bishops in the United States have been heavily criticized for failing to hold themselves accountable for the sexual abuse of children, especially after a grand jury report in Pennsylvania released this summer found widespread evidence of abuse by priests and coverups by bishops.
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On Thursday, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the bishops have begun to outline a plan that would ask the Vatican to launch a full investigation into McCarrick, make reporting of abuse and misconduct by bishops "easier" and advocate for "better procedures" to resolve complaints against bishops.
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On Thursday, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the bishops have begun to outline a plan that would ask the Vatican to launch a full investigation into McCarrick, make reporting of abuse and misconduct by bishops "easier" and advocate for "better procedures" to resolve complaints against bishops.
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Only about 200 bishops are attending a retreat that the pope himself had insisted on, out of more than 450 active and retired bishops, according to a spokeswoman for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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On Wednesday, the bishops voted to create a 1-800-hotline and website to field complaints of misconduct by bishops.
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Bishops are going to pay a price, even influential and effective bishops, even a bishop who did better than most.
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"As a body of bishops, we are shamed by and sorry for the sins and omissions by Catholic priests and Catholic bishops," said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Bishop Timothy L. Doherty, chair of the bishops' Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People, in a statement.
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"I am on the side of the bishops' conference," the pope said, referring to two statements from U.S. bishops this month.
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In Baltimore, the bishops are expected to debate several proposals to do just that: a third-party system to report abuse or misconduct by bishops; a way for bishops to investigate those reports; a new policy to discipline bishops who have already retired or been removed from ministry; and finally, a promise to hold themselves accountable.
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"There are bishops who like what Pope Francis is doing, bishops who don't like what Pope Francis is doing and hope he goes to his eternal reward, and bishops who are just confused by Pope Francis," said the Rev.
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Barros is expected to be among the 31 active bishops and two retired bishops at the May 15-17 closed-door meetings.
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Bishops in Baltimore: Seeking more accountability The goal for the Catholic bishops in Baltimore, is, simply stated, is to stanch the bleeding.
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Although most bishops around the world have spoken up in defence of Francis, a group of American bishops joined Archbishop Viganò's attack.
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Pope meets Venezuelan bishops On Thursday, in an unscheduled private meeting, Pope Francis briefly spoke with bishops who had come from Venezuela.
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The Vatican's eleventh-hour intervention, ordered by its Congregation for Bishops, according to DiNardo, essentially puts the American bishops' reforms on hold.
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The congregation also wanted the US bishops to wait to take action until after the meeting of bishops in Rome next February.
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Bishops need to be accountable not only to the Pope and to their fellow bishops, but also to the people they serve.
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The bishops' conference is in the process of setting up a national service to help less experienced bishops handle accusations of abuse.
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"We, the bishops of the United States, have heard the anger expressed by so many within and outside of the church over these failures," the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a statement overwhelmingly approved Thursday by 229 voting bishops.
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Leading bishops speculated that the Vatican did not want the American bishops to get out ahead of a summit meeting in Rome next February for the presidents of all the national bishops conferences to discuss church polices on sexual abuse.
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Several underground bishops in China, including two popular bishops in staunchly Catholic parts of the country, are expected to step down to make way for the bishops appointed by Beijing over the past decade whom the pope has agreed to recognize.
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Vatican sources have said that a few bishops appointed by Rome will cede their places to bishops who had been appointed by Beijing.
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Mark Coleridge, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, said the conviction had shocked people around Australia and the world, including the bishops.
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The state-sanctioned bishops who took the places of the two underground bishops were among the seven the Vatican formally accepted on Saturday.
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DiNardo also said the bishops' conference is working on a plan to make misconduct and abuse by bishops easier to report and resolve.
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The Vatican refuses to permit bishops ordained without papal approval to take part in liturgical acts and has excommunicated Chinese bishops who do so.
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As the Vatican ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Viganò offered candidates to the pope, who named bishops; Archbishop Viganò did not name bishops himself.
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But he noted that a legitimate conference would have to include China's underground bishops and exclude state-backed bishops found unacceptable by the pope.
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The bishops announced at the end of an emergency Vatican summit that all 31 active bishops in Rome had signed a document offering to resign.
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Chilean victims of abuse welcomed news the bishops were ready to stand down but insisted the Vatican should take further, punitive action against the bishops.
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Beijing has appointed seven bishops that Rome opposes, while an estimated 30 to 40 underground bishops with Rome's blessing operate without the Chinese government's approval.
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" The general counsel of the bishops' conference, Anthony R. Picarello Jr., warned in a cover letter to the bishops that the request was "very broad.
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Apart from the eight active bishops who have resigned in Chile, last year Francis defrocked two other Chilean bishops who had been accused of molesting children.
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The queen's bishops wanted to go further than Edward VI; some in England wished to ban bishops altogether, looking to John Calvin in Geneva for inspiration.
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The Vatican is hoping that China will recognize these bishops once the issue of the eight bishops it considers illegitimate has been resolved, say Catholic officials.
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Instead, he has said at times that he believed bishops over victims, and pulled the plug on a new church body intended to hold bishops accountable.
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Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, praised the new law for empowering bishops' conferences to impose tougher measures.
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The bishops' conference will develop a code of conduct specifically for bishops, and establish policies "addressing restrictions on bishops who were removed or resigned because of allegations of sexual abuse of minors or sexual harassment of or misconduct with adults, including seminarians and priests," the statement said.
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The initiatives that the American bishops had planned to debate and vote on in Baltimore included creating a hotline for reporting accusations against bishops, a lay review board to hear the allegations, and a mechanism to permanently sideline bishops who are judged to be abusers themselves.
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The pope scrapped one of the main proposals of the Vatican's committee — that bishops accused of covering up abuse be subject to a tribunal —after bishops objected.
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But some already say the proposals will not satisfy Catholics eager to see their bishops held accountable, especially since the bishops themselves will be running the investigations.
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Catholic bishops, and particularly their American umbrella group, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, like to position themselves above the partisan fray, rarely responding to political jabs.
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With sexual abuse victims clamoring for Francis to take action against negligent bishops, the pope recently announced that an array of Vatican departments should keep bishops accountable.
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The sources said that in the future, new bishops will be proposed by local members of the Church, together with the government and the Chinese bishops conference.
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And as a member of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Wuerl will still shape the American church for decades to come by helping to pick its bishops.
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Bishops ordain priests and so without bishops, in time there could be no priests, or very few, and Catholicism in China would have died a silent death.
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The removal of the bishops could herald what many church observers predict will be widespread firings of Chile's bishops, all of whom tendered their resignations in May.
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The system adopted this week includes a hotline for reporting allegations against bishops and procedures that detail how claims should be investigated by senior bishops called metropolitans.
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The pope scrapped one of the main proposals of the Vatican's committee — that bishops accused of covering up abuse be subject to a tribunal — after bishops objected.
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" The committee said the bishops' conference would develop a code of conduct specifically for bishops, and would establish policies "addressing restrictions on bishops who were removed or resigned because of allegations of sexual abuse of minors or sexual harassment of or misconduct with adults, including seminarians and priests.
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But those policies do not apply to bishops, a loophole the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have pledged to fix next week at their annual meeting in Baltimore.
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Pierre is in Baltimore and addressed the body of bishops on Monday morning, though he did not mention the Vatican's insistence that the US bishops delay their vote.
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Since the release of the letter from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops saying the pope would not apologize now, Canada's bishops have offered little clarity about why.
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The leaders of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops had proposed a different structure last year, in which panels including lay experts would examine accusations against bishops.
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Just last week, at the annual meeting of Catholic bishops in Indianapolis, a number of bishops spoke in opposition to the potential ACA repeal, according to America Magazine.
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There is no sign — at least not yet — that Pope Francis has lost the loyalty of the American bishops' central organization, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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It was announced that neither the Russian Patriarch nor any bishops under his authority would celebrate the Eucharist (Christianity's holiest rite) with bishops under the command of Patriarch Bartholomew.
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The goal, he explained, is to make bishops aware of the problem and to share roles and responsibilities, a set of protocols, on the handling by bishops and archbishops.
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The church's approach to assisted suicide is traditional if you listen to the bishops of Western Canada, flexible and accommodating if you heed the bishops in Canada's Maritime Provinces.
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The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, a collegial assembly of bishops and the country's top Catholic body, said on Tuesday that Wilson had maintained his innocence throughout the judicial process.
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They are scrubbing the names of Bishops Jerome D. Hannan, J. Carroll McCormick, and James C. Timlin from campus buildings, and will also be rescinding the bishops' honorary degrees.
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When bishops have acknowledged abuse, they often treat it as a sin to forgive rather than a crime to prosecute, reflexively protect their own and believe bishops over victims.
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Finally, all but one of the bishops here voted to approve what is essentially a re-affirmation of their vows as bishops, with a special focus on the abuse crisis.
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The US Conference of Catholic Bishops convenes in Baltimore for four days of meetings, including a vote on how to hold bishops accountable for curbing child sex abuse by clergy.
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Amy Hill, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, the bishops' political arm in the state, declined on Wednesday to say whether bishops supported or opposed eliminating statutes of limitations.
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As part of the deal, the Vatican approved seven excommunicated Patriotic Association bishops ordained without church approval, meaning all Beijing-approved Bishops have now been accepted by the Holy See.
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Following the report's release, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said it showed the Catholic Church's "culture of silence" around sexual abuse of minors and demanded change, specifically among bishops.
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"Based on the church teaching and history, the bishops have always been committed to immigration," says Kevin Appleby, the former longtime director of migration policy for the Catholic Bishops conference.
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The pope has already accepted the resignations of three bishops, and all Chile's remaining bishops have offered to resign after allegations that the abuse, including of children, was covered up.
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Soon after the deal was announced, two Chinese bishops from the official church were sent to Vatican City for the synod, a regular meeting of bishops from around the world.
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The head of the U.S. conference of Catholic bishops&apos committee on migration has condemned the policy as "immoral," and the issue dominated the U.S. bishops&apos recent assembly in Florida.
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The US Catholic Bishops Conference is meeting through Thursday in Baltimore, where they are expected to adopt new measures to hold bishops accountable in the wake of several sexual misconduct scandals.
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" Any deal by which the Beijing-dominated Chinese bishops conference nominated candidates for the Pope to appoint would be unacceptable, Zen said: "How can an atheist government choose bishops for us?
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However, the acceptance of government-backed bishops by the Holy See had already started to blur the lines, as more bishops were seen as both Vatican and Beijing-approved, he added.
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In September, U.S. Catholic bishops said they would set up a hotline for accusations of sexual abuse against bishops and other church leaders, or allegations of cover ups by such people.
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After a substantiated report of abuse was revealed in June, followed by more allegations, some of the nation's leading bishops began calling for reforms in how allegations against bishops are investigated.
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The Vatican took a step in January in its efforts to unify the two Catholic communities in China, asking two underground bishops to step aside in favor of government-appointed bishops.
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On Monday, the Holy See asked hundreds of American bishops attending the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore not to vote on any measures concerning the Church's sex abuse crisis.
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But in a surprise move, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, stunned his fellow bishops and media by announcing that the Vatican wanted those plans put on hold until after a February meeting in Rome called by Pope Francis that will bring together bishops from around the world.
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The Vatican and the Chinese government reached an agreement regarding the recognition of Chinese Catholic bishops, ending a years-long debate over which power had the authority to appoint bishops in China.
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One of the bishops, Juan Barros of the southern city of Osorno, became the focal point of the investigation and is one of the bishops whose resignation the pope has already accepted.
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More than 6,100 Catholic theologians, educators and lay leaders have signed a petition calling for all the American bishops to offer the pope their resignations, as the bishops of Chile recently did.
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His resignation brought the total to 8 bishops who have stepped down since 34 Chilean bishops collectively withdrew during an emergency meeting with the pope in May 2018 amid a cover-up probe.
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November The Vatican dramatically intervenes in the US Catholic bishops annual meeting, instructing them not to adopt new policies to hold bishops accountable for misconduct and failing to protect children from sexual abuse.
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Before the sexual abuse scandal flared up in Boston in 20103, forcing the bishops to institute reforms, bishops routinely sent abusive clerics to church-run treatment centers and then returned them to ministry.
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He said that the bishops of the Western Jurisdiction, who were gathering in Dallas in advance of a larger meeting of Methodist bishops, would meet on Saturday to assess the decision and respond.
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Bishops could already delegate the authority to grant absolution to parish priests — and many bishops in the United States had done so — but the practice varied widely by country and even by diocese.
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"We spoke of this," Bishop Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzmán, the president of the Bolivian Bishops Conference, acknowledged on Thursday, the start of the extraordinary four-day meeting of bishops and other church leaders.
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To include lay people in investigating misconduct by bishops. 5.
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DiNardo stunned the bishops when he opened the assembly Nov.
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You must tell the good bishops to stop the ceremony!
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So far Francis has accepted the resignations of five bishops.
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The bishops withdrew from the talks, in effect ending them.
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If seats are reserved for bishops, why not Uber drivers?
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In May, 31 bishops offered their resignation to the pope.
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Where the assembled bishops saw symbols of fertility and maternity,
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Two of those allegations resulted in settlements, the bishops said.
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It's not that the bishops in this country haven't responded.
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Under canon law, only the Pope can hold bishops accountable.
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She hears the confessions of counts and noblemen and bishops.
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It was there that all 34 bishops offered their resignations.
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The Vatican tribunal to try bishops was never set up.
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It has secretly named bishops to lead the "underground" church.
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Pope Francis has accepted resignations by five of those bishops.
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Five priests, two bishops and 22 families were buried here.
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The American bishops, too, sought concrete measures from the Vatican.
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Canadian bishops have said the pope might visit next year.
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The decree gave bishops one year to establish new procedures.
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"Some bishops, by their actions or their failures to act, have caused great harm to both individuals and the Church," the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) administrative committee said in a statement.
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The bishops said they would create a new way to report accusations of sexual abuse by clergy members and for claims to be investigated without interference from bishops overseeing priests accused of sex abuse.
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And if Canada's bishops supported it, it is hard to see that the pope would refuse because a hallmark of the Francis papacy is to decentralize authority to the bishops conferences around the world.
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Last month, the cardinal presided over a deflating national meeting in Baltimore at which the American bishops were prevented by the Vatican from voting on a package of policies intended to hold bishops accountable.
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Cardinal DiNardo and his delegation of American bishops intend to demand not only a full investigation into questions surrounding Cardinal McCarrick, but also better mechanisms for reporting abuse by bishops, and for resolving complaints.
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In November, the Vatican ordered the United States bishops to hold off voting on new policies for keeping bishops accountable until the February summit could produce protocols that would apply to the church worldwide.
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The bishops' well-laid plans The Catholic bishops had been expected to debate and vote on several "concrete measures to respond to the abuse crisis," according to a news release about the meeting in Baltimore.
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All 34 Chilean bishops who attended a crisis meeting this week with Pope Francis about the cover-up of sexual abuse in their country have offered their resignation, the bishops said in a statement released.
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But the bishops, aware of the anger in the pews, insisted on going through with the meeting so they could vote on a set of measures they had come up with to hold bishops accountable.
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There was already close collaboration between bishops in Texas and Mexico.
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AMERICA'S conservative Catholic bishops have had a testing couple of years.
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"I am on the side of the bishops conference," he said.
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He also says that canceled records are not accessible to bishops.
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Joe Vásquez, chair of the Conference of Catholic Bishops; and Rev.
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The bishops' solution: Do anything other than ordaining women as priests.
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Anglicans disproportionately backed Brexit, despite several bishops coming out for Remain.
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My sense is that with bishops, respectful conversation simply works better.
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In recent months, Pope Francis had sent letters criticizing Chilean bishops.
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Today, the Mormon Church still bars women from serving as bishops.
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"US Conference for Catholic Bishops: "This moment cannot pass without comment.
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Could you safely infer that most Catholics agree with the bishops?
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Go deeper: Pope criticizes U.S. bishops' handling of sex abuse crisis
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Sexual abuse by Catholic priests and its cover up by bishops
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Heath Lodge lies at the southern tip of The Bishops Avenue.
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"They didn't need much from the current bishops," Father Idiáquez said.
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In May, he summoned the entire Chilean Bishops' Conference to Rome.
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They will be forced to join the so-called bishops' conference.
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In addition, Catholic priests respond to pressure from their own bishops.
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"It's a page right out of the bishops' playbooks," he said.
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Now there is no place left for the bishops to hide.
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As for cardinals, most are bishops but not all of them.
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Under Chinese law, priests and bishops must register with the state.
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Among those bishops was Cardinal Wuerl, now the archbishop of Washington.
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Still, accountability for bishops continued to elude Mr. Sipe, frustrating him.
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Our American priests and deacons should be picking their own bishops.
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The same was true of bishops throughout much of Catholic history.
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Catholic bishops in border states and cities have been particularly scathing.
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By church law, only the Pope can discipline or remove bishops.
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That brother bishops would be so negligent and not responding properly.
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Under church law, only the Pope can discipline or remove bishops.
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But the pressure is building on the bishops to change quickly.
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The Pope has accepted the resignations of five of the bishops.
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American Catholics have considerably less faith in their bishops, Gallup found.
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McGriggs says she believes the majority of bishops are well-intentioned.
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Today we are experiencing a crisis of trust in our bishops.
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Without it, the bishops can't even pay their dry-cleaning bills.
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As pope, he has saved his harshest rhetoric for his fellow clerics, especially the cardinals and bishops, criticizing them as "careerists" and "airport bishops" who spend more time flying around the world than tending their flock.
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The vast scale of the problem in Germany is detailed in a wide-ranging report commissioned by the country' bishops that was leaked on Wednesday, two weeks before the German bishops had intended to release it.
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"We have said for years that priests should follow certain strict rules, so why should bishops and other members of the Church hierarchy be exempt?" said Cardinal Marc Ouellet, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops.
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The Vatican will also issue a "guidebook" to "help bishops around the world clearly understand their duties" and set up teams of experts to be sent to countries to help inexperienced bishops handle cases of abuse.
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A day later, the bishops adopted a protocol outlining steps they can take to restrict retired bishops who were "removed for or resigned from their office for a grave reason," including sexual abuse or covering up misconduct.
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Earlier this month, the conference planned to vote on measures to increase accountability in response to the abuse crisis -- including, according to the bishops' conference, a hotline to report bishops accused of abuse or mishandling abuse cases.
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All 34 Chilean bishops who attended a crisis meeting this week with Pope Francis about the cover-up of sexual abuse in their country have offered their resignation, the bishops said in a statement released on Friday.
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Through three pontificates, the church had tried to reach an accord with China, but the fate of those seven bishops, and the question of who gets to appoint new bishops in the country, had been impassable barriers.
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In exile in Rome, Cardinal Law was permitted to keep the powerful role he had played for years as a kingmaker of American bishops, serving on the Vatican committee charged with advising the pope on bishops' assignments.
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"Some bishops, by their actions or their failures to act, have caused great harm to both individuals and the Church as a whole," said the administrative committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in a statement.
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As leader of the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the United States and later as president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (now the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops), Cardinal Keeler was considered a centrist.
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German Catholics are also major funders of the Vatican; the bishops conference sends almost $7 million a year, and each of Germany's 27 dioceses sends its own contributions, said Matthias Kopp, a spokesman for the bishops conference.
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Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of seven of Chile's 34 bishops.
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The national bishops' conference did not respond to a request for comment.
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China and the Vatican agreed to share responsibility for appointing Chinese bishops.
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Even the most conservative bishops have denounced Mr Trump's harsh immigration policies.
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By appointing liberal bishops, Francis aims to restore that more expansive approach.
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It is surprising in many ways that the bishops made this decision.
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Without the side edges of the board, the bishops became very deadly.
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He said "many bishops, priests, religious and lay people" had requested it.
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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A formal accord on bishops would be a big step towards that.
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"The bishops don't want to add to the chaos," explains Father Secillano.
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The investigations include reports of abuse by bishops, clerics and lay workers.
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But he has also admonished bishops who support the criminalisation of gays.
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Why do think so few bishops explicitly mentioned LGBT people after Orlando?
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One, their bishops or religious superiors ask them not to come out.
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The election of diocesan bishops by local laypeople, for example, is unthinkable.
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So, it was good for Pope Francis to meet with his bishops.
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The bishops were accused in the report of covering up sexual abuse.
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Francis and the bishops are vowing spiritual war against earthly powers that
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McCarrick visited the Vatican with other U.S. bishops, where he attended a
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The Pope would later accept the resignation of seven bishops, including Barros.
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The two bishops had been under a cloud of suspicion for years.
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Nearly 70 clergy and lay people are under investigation, including three bishops.
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The pope called on the bishops' conference presidents to gather from Feb.
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Above, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Some bishops have provided work histories and even photographs of accused priests.
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In February, bishops in New Jersey published the names of nearly 200.
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Many government-appointed bishops, for example, have quietly received the Vatican's blessing.
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He ultimately dispatched investigators and accepted the resignations of some Chilean bishops.
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Gregory headed the Bishops Council in early 2000s that addressed sexual abuse.
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Bishops have urged the faithful to participate via television and the internet.
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Bishops have urged the faithful to participate via television and the internet.
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They also intended to decide on a proposed bishops' code of conduct.
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The researchers based their report on files provided by the American bishops.
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The bishops conference then sent it to the dioceses on Oct. 23.
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Eventually, she told three bishops that Porter was "being physical," she said.
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Wilson served as president of the Bishops Conference between 2006 and 2012.
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González is the President of the Puerto Rico Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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We bishops in New York, we wrote and said, 'Come on in.
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Priests that were misbehaving were outed, but not bishops, not the cardinal?
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Many Protestant denominations have ordained women as priests and bishops for decades.
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Mr. Piñera, who won, even had four evangelical bishops as campaign advisers.
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U.S. bishops will gather in Baltimore in June to discuss accountability procedures.
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The U.S. conference of Catholic bishops on Wednesday apologized for the role of bishops in the Roman Catholic Church's ongoing sexual abuse scandal and announced plans for new measures aimed at holding accused priests accountable for sexual misconduct.
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The pope, who has championed a collegial approach to church governance that empowers bishops and takes into account their cultural diversity, has responded to the crisis by scheduling a meeting in February of the presidents of bishops conferences.
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American bishops and church leaders can easily follow the example of the German bishops, whose conference issued a policy in 2015 that church employees who were in same-sex relationships, civil unions and marriages would not be fired.
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It calls for whistleblower protection, saying bishops with conflicts of interest in cases of cover-up should recuse themselves from investigations and that bishops can also be held accountable for abuse of power in sexual relations with adults.
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Under a provisional deal announced in outline at the weekend, Pope Francis has accepted the legitimacy of seven bishops appointed by the Beijing authorities in exchange for a say in how bishops in China will be chosen in future.
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They brought to seven the number of bishops who have stepped down since all of the country's 163 bishops offered their resignations en masse during an emergency meeting with the pope in May over allegations of a cover-up.
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Francis said a Mass for about 10,000 people in St. Peter's Basilica to ceremoniously close the Synod of Bishops, officially titled "Young People, Faith and Discernment of Vocation" and attended by some 300 bishops, priests, nuns and lay participants.
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The hotline was one of several moves unveiled on Wednesday by bishops to try to rebuild trust in the U.S. church hierarchy after recent allegations that bishops had abused children and covered up decades of sex crimes by priests.
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The ordination of new bishops in China is also pressing because some 30 of the more than 100 dioceses on the mainland are currently vacant, while a similar number are led by aging bishops who are 75 or older.
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In November, the pope surprised American bishops at a meeting of their conference in Baltimore by sending a letter that required them to delay voting on measures to hold bishops accountable for failing to protect children from abusive clergy.
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It was not until the 1070s that secular control over bishops began to be challenged by a series of reformist popes who sought to free clerics from secular influence and insisted that bishops' first allegiance was to the church.
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Last year, Francis also appointed four women as first female councillors for the Synod of Bishops, a department founded more than 50 years ago that prepares major meetings of world bishops held every few years on a different topic.
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The synod effectively threw out a conservative-leaning report by the church's bishops.
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Seven German bishops wrote the Vatican to request a ruling on the document.
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Other bishops have allegedly covered up the sins and crimes of other clergy.
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To recommend to the Vatican only proposed bishops "truly suited for the episcopacy."
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Legally speaking, the U.S. bishops didn't need Vatican approval prior to the vote.
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A week ago, Francis accepted the resignation of Barrios and two other bishops.
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Bishops were told to keep the allegations secret, the Altoona-Johnstown report said.
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In the 1980s its bishops issued important tracts against poverty and nuclear arms.
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The Polish Bishops' Conference calls non-heterosexual arrangements "completely alien to European civilisation".
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Nevertheless, there are still some government-backed bishops whom the Vatican finds intolerable.
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The emperor asked the bishops to devise a verdict to decide John's fate.
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Not only by the faithful, but also by some priests and even bishops!
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"The resignation of these bishops should not dilute their criminal responsibility," he said.
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And indeed, you can see shades of Humanae Vitae and the bishops' goals.
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Talks will begin again on Friday, the bishops' conference said in a statement.
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Of those implicated in wrongdoing, it said, 139 were bishops, priests or deacons.
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Now 87, McCarrick retired at age 75, the mandatory age for Catholic bishops.
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The Vatican, meanwhile, now regards American bishops as masters at handling abuse allegations.
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He formerly worked for the bishops' conference and attended the meeting in Baltimore.
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The Vatican retaliated by excommunicating three of these bishops in 2011 and 2012.
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In total, there are eight bishops whom the Vatican has refused to recognize.
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Of course, that's why he's pope, but I'm sure his bishops flail him.
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Nuns across the globe are standing up accusing priests and bishops of abuse.
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Most Catholics don't read encyclicals, bishops' pastoral letters, or their local Catholic paper.
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In the meantime, the Australian Bishops Conference sought to sound a positive note.
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But will the 30 then be allowed to still function as underground bishops?
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They included the creation of a commission to review abuse allegations against bishops.
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In January, bishops in Texas named nearly 300 priests credibly accused of abuse.
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"It's a dramatic change in how bishops are approaching this," Mr. McKiernan said.
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"The bishops and leaders have the utmost respect for the law," he added.
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The bishops should open themselves sincerely to confrontation, and gratefully embrace the results.
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In an interview with Reuters, he said he may accept additional bishops' resignations.
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Two auxiliary bishops were also present, Ms. Dalle said, and reassured the crowd.
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Some bishops within the conference also called for protests against the administration's policies.
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Prosecutors say 158 people, including bishops, priests and lay people are under investigation.
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They have been strongly condemned by Poland's Catholic bishops and other religious conservatives.
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More than 60 bishops have been accused of sexually abusing minors, she said.
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"Bishops and former cardinals are no longer immune to punishment," Professor Martens said.
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But some bishops in the hall said that was not a new lesson.
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" African bishops briefed at the time decried the reporting of abuse as "disloyal.
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There is no theological reason for the American bishops not to do likewise.
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These regulations were written by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, not doctors.
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His resignation brought to eight the number of bishops who have stepped down since all of the country's 34 bishops offered their resignations en masse during an emergency meeting with the pope last May over allegations of a cover-up.
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But Barros and other bishops were put under the spotlight in January when the pope sent one of the Vatican's most experienced sexual abuse investigators, Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, to New York and Chile to talk to victims and bishops.
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Zen, who has fiercely criticized the Vatican for attempting to force two "underground" bishops to give way to government-backed "illegitimate" bishops in order to foster the deal, was rebuked by the Vatican last Wednesday for "fostering confusion and controversy".
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And in Chile, where all 31 active bishops offered to resign this spring over their botched handling of cases sexual abuse against children, recent revelations have uncovered networks of sexually active gay priests and the complicit bishops who protected them.
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Baltimore (CNN)The Vatican has told the US Conference of Catholic Bishops to delay voting on measures to hold bishops accountable for failing to protect children from sexual abuse, the president of the conference said in a surprise announcement Monday morning.
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"Some bishops, by their actions or their failures to act, have caused great harm to both individuals and the church as a whole," the administrative committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a statement announcing the measures.
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The bishops' statement said the measures it announced were "only a beginning," and that the bishops would consult with parents and lay experts, as well as members of the clergy, to come up with additional "specific measures" to address the scandal.
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It was put forward by Latin American bishops as a means of easing an acute shortage of priests in the Amazon region, and passed by 128 votes to 41 at a contentious Vatican assembly, or synod, of Roman Catholic bishops.
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As Catholic bishops try to reassure the flock that the church is finally confronting the scourge of sexual abuse by priests, it has fallen to Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, the president of the American bishops conference, to lead the effort.
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They also spoke of a "very brief" handbook for bishops to understand their duties when it comes to abuse cases, and of new task forces of experts and canon lawyers to assist bishops in countries with less experience and resources.
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Its bishops have been tough advocates of civil liberty and the rule of law.
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But bishops seem untempted by any tactical advantage that the deal might give them.
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The document released Friday seeks proposals from bishops for debate during the Amazon synod.
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Kikaya told Reuters Kabila had met Catholic bishops on Friday but provided no details.
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Previously, only bishops and designated special confessors were able to grant absolution for abortions.
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He insisted that U.S. bishops were not trying to appropriate Vatican powers for themselves.
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Or perhaps he feels a duty to afford his bishops the presumption of innocence.
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Elizabeth's bishops despaired of her liking for icons and vestments, but defended her nonetheless.
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Two African-American bishops leaped up and hugged whenever Mr Trump gained electoral seats.
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The Church of England has said bishops will give "serious consideration" to the letter.
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And public comments from bishops also make their way to people in the pews.
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At 67, Wilson is well under the normal retirement age for bishops of 75.
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Certainly the New Jersey bishops who handled the settlements in 2005 and 2007 knew.
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At 57, Pineda is well below the normal retirement age of 75 for bishops.
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The Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, along with the Revs.
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Catholic bishops around the world have had differing responses to laws to decriminalize homosexuality.
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In May, all of the country's 34 bishops offered their resignation to the pope.
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"The Nicaraguan church is in mourning," the Nicaraguan Bishops' Conference said in a statement.
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And second, I really didn't want to single out any individual bishops for criticism.
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In Britain, for example, Anglican bishops have attacked welfare reforms which hurt the poor.
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Burke: Well, in December of 2013 he removed me from the congregation of bishops.
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Thirty-four Chilean bishops have resigned together over the Catholic child sex abuse scandals.
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This requires bishops not to disclose information on serious offences allegedly committed by priests.
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The church's bishops conference, known as CENCO, did not say which candidate had won.
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We are bishops from the global South and North, united by faith and humanity.
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The vote left the bishops' carefully worded position on same-sex marriage in disarray.
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The country's bishops urged "everyone to show civic maturity" and to avoid any violence.
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Mr. Duterte called the presidential election a "public referendum" between the bishops and himself.
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U.S. Catholic bishops on Thursday called for an investigation into the allegations against McCarrick.
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As questions about restitution arise, the bishops' responses feel inadequate, insincere, or off point.
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Bishops allowed most accused priests to continue in the ministry without treatment or discipline.
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Brenes and several bishops made public statements against violence and in favor of dialogue.
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Francis told the news service that he backs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Prosecutors say there are 158 people including bishops, priests and lay people under investigation.
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The official church has about 70 bishops; the underground Church has only about 30.
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The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea said that it "deeply deplores" the court's decision.
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Only Rome could investigate bishops, they said, and only the pope could punish them.
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Bishops were scheduled to vote on policies to address the abuse crisis in Baltimore.
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The clergy is therefore in a position to restore our trust in the bishops.
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In exchange, the pope is gaining some role in the appointment of new bishops.
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Critically, the bishops have listed "substantial leadership by laity" as one of their goals.
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But first it would have to have a say in who those bishops are.
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He, like many other bishops, was allowed to serve longer at the pope's discretion.
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James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, said he found the bishops' silence revelatory.
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"The two trials are simply a farce," the letter signed by the bishops said.
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WEDNESDAY • A major meeting of Catholic bishops from around the world convenes In Rome.
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Last year, Beijing struck a deal with the Vatican to jointly appoint Catholic bishops.
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Like all Catholic bishops, Wuerl technically resigned when he turned 75 two years ago.
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My brother bishops and I have long supported DACA and volunteering in our parishes.
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African-Americans had been told that we could not be priests, bishops or archbishops.
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We know it's a failed model because that's the Catholic bishops model from 2000.
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That same year, he was elected president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Stateside, two bishops of small American dioceses, Bishop David A. Konderla of Tulsa, Okla.
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In October, the pope laicized two retired Chilean bishops accused of sexually abusing minors.
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But the bishops said that they hoped the disclosures offered some comfort to victims.
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Attendees at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops likewise slammed Trump's migrant policy.
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Baltimore's Archbishop William Lori, who led the investigation into Bransfield under a new church model to oversee bishops, apologized for editing the report to omit the fact that he and other bishops had received tens of thousands of dollars as gifts from Bransfield.
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The bishop, Guo Xijin, 59, is one of at least two "underground" bishops — those recognized by the Roman Catholic Church but not by the Chinese authorities — who have been asked by the Vatican to step down in favor of Communist-approved bishops.
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In DiNardo's public letter, he said the bishops' executive committee had three goals: opening an investigation "into the questions surrounding" McCarrick; opening "new and confidential channels" for reporting complaints about bishops' misconduct; and advocating for more effective ways to resolve future complaints.
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In DiNardo's August letter, he said the bishops' executive committee had three goals: opening an investigation "into the questions surrounding" McCarrick; opening "new and confidential channels" for reporting complaints about bishops' misconduct; and advocating for more effective ways to resolve future complaints.
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Catholics who worked at the bishops' conference describe Gregory as a calm but effective force who insisted the bishops institute new protocols to prevent the abuse of children, including a "zero tolerance" policy for any clergy with a credible accusation against them.
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Cardinal Cupich said that he hoped the top leaders of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops would consider this proposal next month, so that it could be fine-tuned and ultimately approved in June when the American bishops are scheduled to meet.
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In a rare, wide-ranging interview, the pope said he was optimistic about talks that may lead to a historic agreement over the appointment of bishops in China, and said he may accept more bishops' resignations over a sexual abuse scandal in Chile.
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By the bishops' account of their session with the pontiff, they did not mince words.
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The investigations include reports of abuse by bishops, clerics and lay workers filed since 2000.
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This week, at their annual meeting in Baltimore, the bishops said they've received the message.
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To publicize information about how people can make accusations of sexual abuse by bishops. 4.
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Lei is one of eight Chinese bishops appointed with Beijing's backing that Rome considers illegitimate.
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On scene top of Bishops Peak with a patient with major injuries from a fall.
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Traditionally, bishops and Baptists pastors have been allowed to operate in isolation, free from oversight.
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But the bishops are expected to debate several proposals to add new layers of accountability.
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While visiting the Vatican, Congo's Catholic bishops issued an open letter against any such initiative.
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By eliding immigration policy with abortion, the bishops signalled an important shift in their thinking.
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But Ortega, like many other bishops, was allowed to serve longer at the pope's discretion.
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Conservative bishops will also resume their opposition to the pope when the border crisis eases.
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Reuters has not been able to independently confirm the personal status of these two bishops.
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In western Europe and Latin America, priests and bishops are instead contending with growing secularism.
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"You are not bureaucrats, nor politicians, you are pastors," he said, addressing bishops in Bogota.
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But many who spoke to BuzzFeed News contended that the training bishops receive falls short.
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In February the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines condemned Mr Duterte's "reign of terror".
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The Pope clarified that Vatican offices have the jurisdiction to remove bishops in such cases.
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But the missing link is how bishops who have covered up these crimes are treated.
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The bishops called for House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican lawmakers to reprimand Sessions.
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Scicluna's 2,300-page report prompted Francis to summon Chile's bishops to Rome for a meeting.
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So far, the pope has accepted resignations by five of those bishops, including Juan Barros.
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His plan for a tribunal to try bishops accused of covering up abuse was scotched.
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These appointments "have really been [the bishops'] ticket to make this policy real," Ratcliffe says.
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The bishops remind us of our obligations in order to help us form our consciences.
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The implementation of a political transition pact mediated by the bishops and signed on Dec.
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Bishops sit in the House of Lords to provide "an independent voice and spiritual insight".
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Cardinal Bassetti, president of the Italian Bishops' Conference, confirmed to Italian media the Pope's comments.
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"We really haven't been impacted," said a spokesperson for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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The Russian Orthodox Church has nearly 400 bishops, many more than other Orthodox churches have.
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U.S. Catholic bishops last week called for an investigation into sexual abuse allegations against McCarrick.
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The pope dropped last year's plan to create a special tribunal to investigate offending bishops.
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Last month the Polish Bishops' Conference urged parliament to consider the abortion law without delay.
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The bishops of 30 years ago who allegedly may have reassigned abusers, they don't suffer.
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Four of the about 40 men trained by Karadima for the priesthood later became bishops.
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This year, he initially defended Chilean bishops against accusations that they had covered up abuse.
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There are a few American bishops still with media platforms, a few with intellectual chops.
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Vatican officials said the pope was trying to enshrine accountability for bishops into church law.
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At a meeting of bishops in Baltimore in November, Bishop Thomas Paprocki, of Springfield, Ill.
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He targeted those bishops and cardinals by name, but saved his strongest fire for Francis.
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But Francis, Archbishop Viganò wrote, empowered Cardinal McCarrick, allowing him to help choose American bishops.
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But many bishops would rather save face than prevent the ruin of bodies and souls.
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A study commissioned by the American bishops in 2004 put the percentage at 4 percent.
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At the same time, she said, American bishops have grown stricter about enforcing the E.R.D.s.
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The executive director of the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter to Gov.
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He joined American bishops on their five-year check-in with Benedict in January 2012.
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Now, bishops — including all those in Texas — are rushing to release or update their lists.
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If our bishops need to be diocesan C.E.O.s adept at risk management, so be it.
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Deacons are one of three orders of Christian ministry, in addition to bishops and priests.
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Two sought-after Russians surface, American bishops meet with Pope Francis, and major storms loom.
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Today the pope, acting through the Roman Curia, has exclusive authority to choose American bishops.
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The bishops' conference said it does not have an estimate of the number of victims.
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However, Catholics in the pews cover the spectrum of political thought, as do our bishops.
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Consider the opening of its May convention, when a pair of bishops delivered the invocation.
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Even without the Pope's approval, the US bishops can take several steps on their own.
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The Australian inquiry underlines the question of whether the Vatican will ever discipline offending bishops.
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Many are also calling for bishops and other church leaders to be finally held accountable.
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All of the bishops and most of the priests named in the report escaped punishment.
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Amanda Lopez, 20, from Provo, Utah, said she has had only positive experiences with bishops.
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Polish bishops have made it clear any talk of watering down church doctrine was unacceptable.
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has not taken a position on the issue.
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All bishops are required to submit their resignation to the pope when they turn 75.
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"When you see rigid Christians, bishops, priests, you know there are problems there," he said.
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Former Pope Benedict set up a commission of theologians and bishops to study the situation.
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Likewise, Holderness recalled being consistently turned away by the Mormon bishops she sought guidance from.
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And they are demanding that the church step in and hold negligent bishops to account.
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Some bishops are suggesting that the church needs new structures to keep their colleagues accountable.
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Recognizing the problem, the Italian Bishops' Conference is redrafting its 19563 guidelines for protecting minors.
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The pope did not refer directly to these fissures in his letter to the bishops.
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In February, the heads of some 110 bishops' conferences are to gather in the Vatican.
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For many of today's priests and bishops over 50, this environment limited healthy sexual development.
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For bishops, this must mean real partnership with laypeople in the governance of their dioceses.
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In May, 34 Chilean bishops resigned over a sexual abuse scandal and cover-up there.
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" An archbishop in Beijing told the Times when pressed about the authority over appointing bishops in China only that "the Holy Father gets to say something about the appointment of bishops," adding that the deal would allow "the intervention of the Holy Father for sure.
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Responding to a deepening scandal over sexual misconduct in their own ranks, Catholic bishops in the United States say they plan to set up a hotline — run by a third party — to field complaints about bishops who have sexually abused or harassed minors or adults.
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But in a last-minute surprise, the Vatican instructed the bishops to delay voting on a package of corrective measures until next year, when Pope Francis plans to hold a summit in Rome on the sexual abuse crisis for bishops from around the world.
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The pope also said that he remained optimistic about striking a historic deal with China over the appointment of bishops there, and that he could accept the resignation of more Chilean bishops following a clerical sex abuse scandal that threatened the reputation of his pontificate.
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Baltimore, Maryland (CNN)It's been a rough year for the Catholic Bishops in the United States.
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He urged the religion to instruct members to report abuse directly to police, not the bishops.
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Catholic bishops who visited the border this week became the latest to call for its return.
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The bishops are instructed how to handle the meetings and swear to keep the conversations confidential.
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Most of those accusations dated from before 2002, when the bishops instituted new sex-abuse polices.
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The allegations prompted a probe that has led to the ousting of bishops and other priests.
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Earlier this year, the country's bishops spoke out against any moves to recognize same-sex unions.
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At their semi-annual meeting in Baltimore, accountability for bishops is expected to dominate the agenda.
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Wilson was once Australia&aposs highest-ranking archbishop as president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
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Some disapproving bishops and headmasters thought his novels, particularly "La Terre" ("The Earth"), to be corrupting.
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I totally respect the pope and I totally respect the Catholic bishops and cardinals on doctrine.
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With scores of Russian clerics and bishops looking on, Patriarch Kirill also solemnly reconsecrated the cathedral.
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There are also many bishops whom the Vatican has appointed without the consent of the Communists.
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All but seven of the present crop of government-backed bishops serve with the pope's endorsement.
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He heads the Santa Marta Group, an alliance of police and bishops working to eradicate slavery.
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He asked the bishops of the four other dioceses to agree to cooperate with the probe.
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