Nonetheless, Priests for Life argued in Priests for Life v.
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Deacons are ordained like priests, but only priests celebrate Mass.
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Maybe even consider allowing priests to marry or women to become priests.
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Possibly, more than likely, they will have to ordain women priests because they have no priests at the moment to succeed the older priests that are here.
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He has not responded publicly to separate allegations by several priests and ex-priests.
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Several priests told the commission that this is exactly what priests hearing confession should do.
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Deacons are ordained ministers, not priests, though they can perform many of the same functions as priests.
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Shiite Muslims, Hindu priests and Christian priests were attacked, and two foreigners were shot, apparently at random.
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The diocese in Camden named 56 priests and one deacon who have been credibly accused of abuse; Trenton named 30 priests; Paterson named 28 priests and one deacon; and the Metuchen diocese identified one deacon and 10 priests, including two who are the subject of law enforcement investigations.
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Priests join call for bishop's resignation, source says In a meeting Malone had with priests Monday, two priests stood up and asked Malone to resign, according to a source who was in attendance.
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The kinds that compel priests' superiors to send them off for treatment at a facility dedicated to priests.
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"The others were barred from presenting themselves as priests, functioning as priests, or wearing a collar," McDermott said.
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There have been calls to end celibacy for priests, in part because of a shortage of priests worldwide.
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Allowing married men to become priests is not the same thing as allowing priests to marry, so the change would not affect the rule of celibacy for Catholic priests, who are not allowed to marry.
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Support for married priests: Roman Catholic bishops recommended that Pope Francis let married men become priests in the Amazon region.
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The release of the nearly 900-page report has been held up by challenges by some priests and former priests.
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Asked why the diocese released the names of only 42 priests when internal documents show knowledge of up to 200 priests with allegations against them, she said, "because the list of 42 priests were priests against whom we had substantiated allegations" -- meaning more than one allegation -- and were accused of abusing minors, not adults.
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Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, permitted the ordination of some married Anglican priests who converted to Catholicism to serve as Catholic priests.
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In response, 25 priests were removed, and the cardinal gave prosecutors the names of 80 priests accused of abuse over decades.
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Some Anglican priests who were already married when they converted to Roman Catholicism were able to continue to serve as priests.
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The Archdiocese of Hartford named 48 priests last month, and in October, the Bridgeport diocese released a list of 29 priests.
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Today, the Roman Catholic women priests movement counts over 215 ordained women priests and ten bishops, and the number is growing worldwide.
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The list for Texas named two hundred and eighty-six priests, the list for New Jersey a hundred and eighty-eight priests.
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"It is true one will find deeply nationalistic priests, priests who are not modest, who enjoy a more lavish lifestyle," he added.
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None of the priests are in active ministry, and five have been laicized, meaning they are no longer priests, the archdiocese said.
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Poulson was one of a handful of priests charged after a grand jury report named more than 300 "predator priests" in the state.
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"I think priests should have the freedom to marry if they wish," he told the BBC, expressing worries about a shortage of priests.
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Another pope contracted syphilis during his reign — a "disease very fond of priests, especially rich priests," as the saying went in Renaissance times.
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Alleged abuse by priests: Roman Catholic bishops named nearly 200 priests in New Jersey who have been found credibly accused of abusing children.
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It cites a few priests who were allowed to continue ministry for years after the diocese learned of allegations against them, including three who remain active priests, and notes that the diocese turned none of the priests in to the police or prosecutors.
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The Catholic priests' association has long demanded a state pension and compensation from the church for retired priests and those who leave the clergy.
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Some Pittsburgh priests complained that Wuerl moved too quickly to remove accused priests, without providing them with lawyers or allowing them to plead innocence.
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But advocates of women priests see a female deaconate might eventually make it easier for a future pope to study the possibility of women priests.
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The list for Illinois names a hundred and eighty-five priests; the former state attorney general Lisa Madigan counted six hundred and ninety accused priests.
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Married priests are already allowed in Eastern Catholic Churches loyal to the pope, and Anglican priests who convert to Catholicism can remain married after ordination.
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" The report also said that the investigation did not "chronicle abuse committed by religious-order priests in Colorado or by Diocesan priests before they were ordained.
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While dioceses did take some complaints seriously and removed priests from ministry, it's clear that accused priests did not consistently face justice from their own church.
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Priests and ex-priests have said McCarrick abused his authority to coerce them to sleep with him when they were adult seminarians studying for the priesthood.
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Why it matters: A change to the Church's 1,000-year-old requirement of celibacy for priests could help fill a shortage of priests in the Amazon.
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A spokesman for the Washington archdiocese countered that the three priests named by SNAP were "religious order priests with no ties to the archdiocese" of Washington.
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Some parts of Australia, a country that has been notably aggressive in pursuing predatory priests, have passed controversial laws that demand priests break the seal of confession.
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One book, "Married Priests & Married Nuns," a collection of essays published in 1968, included candid personal accounts and blamed celibacy, in part, for a shortage of priests.
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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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On Monday, he cracked open the door to ordaining married, elderly men as priests in remote areas of the Amazon, where the shortage of priests is dire.
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Many parishes have buildings or rooms named after accused priests, he said, and a conference center and a retirement residence for priests are named after former bishops.
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In 2018, following numerous accusations of sexual assault at the hands of priests, Malone released a list of 42 priests who had been credibly accused of abuse.
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The source said Wuerl told the priests about the papal meeting, including Francis' advice that the cardinal should consult with his priests as Wuerl discerns his future.
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We interviewed bishops and priests on four continents and found that, indeed, views vary widely on the urgency, extent and very existence of sexual abuse by priests.
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Pope Francis signals that women will not be ordained as priests anytime soon Pope Francis signals that women will not be ordained as priests anytime soon Pope Francis has been praised as a progressive pontiff, but on one subject he's decidedly old-school: the ordination of women as priests.
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In a statement, he announced that he was convening a committee to investigate allegations against Vermont priests, and eventually to release at least some of the priests' names.
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Documents obtained by CNN suggest Bishop Richard J. Malone did not sanction priests accused of sexual abuse and concealed the identities of alleged "predator priests" from the public.
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Since 2003, 35 cases of abuse by priests have been reported to the church in South Africa, which in October threw out three priests for sexually abusing children.
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And that's why priests have started using fidget spinners as visual aids at church — turns out, these little guys come in handy when priests are explaining the Holy Trinity.
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In Poland, victims of abuse by priests are often accused of making false accusations, even long after the offender has been jailed, since Catholic priests enjoy high social prestige.
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Wuerl, who is archbishop of Washington, told the priests about the papal meeting, including Francis' advice that the cardinal should consult with his priests as Wuerl discerns his future.
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The diocese confirmed to CNN in an email that two priests asked the Bishop to resign during the gathering; but pointed out that more than 100 priests present supported him.
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Hundreds of Catholic priests accused Earlier this year the commission released shocking statistics that 7% of Catholic priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes.
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The documentary shows how priests — even those convicted in criminal cases — were not only allowed to remain priests but, in one particularly shocking case, to also work directly with children.
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Because bishops have control over priests' assignments and complete loyalty is expected by the church's clerical culture, seminarians and priests can be especially vulnerable to sexual harassment by their superiors.
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In a new book, the former pope makes a firm defense of celibacy for priests as Pope Francis is expected to decide whether to allow married priests in remote regions.
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Separately, several priests and ex-priests have come forward alleging McCarrick used his authority to coerce them to sleep with him when they were adult seminarians studying for the priesthood.
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Mandatory celibacy for priests was instituted then, and of course, we're talking about an arrangement of society that's so different from our own—so it was partly for priests to be able to do their duties, and partly about the land that priests had, remanding back to the churches, instead of to heirs.
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The report estimated more than 300 priests across the state abused at least 1,000 known victims, and it condemned the wider clerical culture that allowed senior priests to turn a blind eye to the abuses, often quietly shuffling offending priests into new dioceses, where they would have unfettered access to new victims.
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The proposal is limited to remote areas of South America where there is a scarcity of priests but could set a precedent for easing the restriction on married priests throughout the world.
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The Jesuits, formally known as the Society of Jesus, is the largest order of male clergy in the Catholic Church, consisting of some 16,000 priests, brothers and scholastics, or priests in training.
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A representative of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) welcomed any program that would aid survivors, but she remained skeptical, given what she considers church protection of abusive priests.
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Józef Streżyński co-founded the Prezbyter society, which brings together former priests, priests who are considering leaving the clergy, nuns, and women who are in romantic relationships with members of the clergy.
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In addition to the priests accused of sexually assaulting children, high-powered leaders including former Boston Archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law were accused of allowing accused priests to continue to minister to children.
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Deacons are considered part of "ordained ministry," much like priests, and if the Pope had allowed women to be ordained deacons, it would be one step closer to ordaining them as priests.
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Dennis J. Sullivan, Camden's bishop, noted in a letter than the 56 named priests were a "small percentage" of the more than 800 priests who had served over the past eight decades.
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Elizabeth Dias, our National religion correspondent, joined a conversation on her article about gay Catholic priests after readers wondered why the priests in the story joined the church in the first place.
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The church has already sought to address a potential shortage of priests by promoting the use of deacons — male clerics who can be married and sit just behind priests in the church hierarchy.
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The verdict can help retired priests and nuns, as well as those who quit the clergy, "lead a decent life", said K.P. Shibu Kalamparambil, secretary of an association of Catholic priests and nuns.
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In contrast, the Archdiocese of Boston, which has fewer Catholics and priests but was the target of an investigation by the state's attorney general in 2003, has reported 261 priests accused of abuse.
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Some of the former priests in the book told you about homosexual experiences in the seminary, and there are stories about heterosexual priests who couldn't deal with the temptations of the real world.
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The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests has also slammed Wuerl for failing to provide a list of credibly accused priests in Pittsburgh -- which his successor released this summer -- or in Washington.
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The issue of celibacy has been discussed in other countries with a shortage of priests, including developed ones such as Germany, and some Eastern Catholic rites already allow married men to be priests.
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In an interview published Thursday in the German newspaper Die Zeit, Francis suggested that married men could be ordained as priests in rural communities facing shortages of priests, according to the Associated Press.
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Anglican churches had windows smashed and several priests were killed.
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"That's why we have more priests than prophets," Taylor said.
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Conservatives rejoiced that he had refused to approve married priests.
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And some of them say they want to be priests.
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Across Belgium only seven Catholic priests were ordained last year.
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Doctors have ousted priests as the anointed experts in mortality.
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They told ministers, priests, rabbis and nuns to go back.
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What do you think young priests bring to the church?
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I think that style has to manifest in the priests.
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All I need is for the priests to O.K. me.
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Catholic women cannot become priests, and neither can Orthodox women.
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Some of the young priests had been tortured to death.
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They have opened more than 0003 investigations into abusive priests.
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Buddhist priests blessed the sensors before the readings were taken.
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Priests and deacons are among those named on the list.
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The list also includes 25 dead priests and six others.
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Presumably all garments carry bacteria, including the vestments of priests.
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She said five temple priests and two others were arrested.
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There are already priests who openly begin to worship her.
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Five of the priests were Spanish and one was Salvadoran.
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He has received many positive responses from priests, he added.
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I am fine with priests getting married and having families.
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At least three Catholic priests have been killed this year.
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Polish tourists celebrate Masses, he said, bringing their own priests.
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Nearly 60 priests signed a letter asking him to resign.
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It was natural that he defended his children, the priests.
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I've spent 30 years counseling priests who fall in love.
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Five priests, two bishops and 22 families were buried here.
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Only two of the priests are still subject to prosecution.
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For centuries French people revered their cathedrals, priests and relics.
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The report cited 301 priests, some of whom have died.
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Yet only a very few priests have ever been jailed.
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Some of them were or had been priests and nuns.
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"We're not her priests," Professor Johnson added, using an expletive.
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His mother was happy, he recalled, because she revered priests.
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On Saturday, one of its most outspoken priests, the Rev.
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Some priests don't want to be (or can't be) celibate.
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They are accused of abetting the abuse by the priests.
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And some priests began circulating a letter of no confidence.
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Catholic patriarchy didn't just beget priests who sexually assaulted children.
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Deacons, like priests, are ordained ministers and must be men.
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Does that mean that only Jews can become Catholic priests?
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But cases involving priests have been accumulating in recent years.
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It is not about priests who are straight or gay.
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Those priests were also included in the most recent disclosure.
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Some priests say the number is closer to 215 percent.
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The environment for gay priests has grown only more dangerous.
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Widespread scapegoating has driven many priests deeper into the closet.
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Spectators may not be receptive to priests doing comedy routines.
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Like all Catholic priests, they take a vow of celibacy.
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At the memorial, priests chanted a prayer for the departed.
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Dozens of priests and legislators said they opposed the move.
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Father John was luckier than most other gay Catholic priests.
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"Sixteen persons were confirmed killed, including two priests," said Yamu.
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The Philadelphia District Attorney's office first released a grand jury report detailing allegations against more than 100 priests in 2005, which criticized the Philadelphia diocese for allegedly protecting priests from accusations of sexual abuse.
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Once the priests have left the building, Mihaela—who doesn't exactly care if the priests don't approve of her witchcraft—begins her occult ceremony asking the spirits to grant Beatrice happiness, power, and love.
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Paul Petersen, a Dallas spokesperson for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, told the New York Times that there may yet be more Texan priests who've abused people over the last several decades.
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While deacons, like priests, are currently able to preach, perform baptisms and run parishes, only priests can say Mass, meaning nearly 90 percent of villages in the region do not have access to weekly liturgy.
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The report contains repeated echoes of scandals surrounding Catholic priests who preyed on children, in which church leaders moved those priests to different parishes, did not alert the police and pressured victims to remain quiet.
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Only two priests in Pennsylvania were charged out of more than 6523 accused in July of being "predator priests" in a grand jury report detailing allegations of child sex abuse against more than 2652,28080 children.
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The same survey found that the total number of priests in the church decreased by a few hundred to 415,153, with the major erosion also in Europe, which lost about 2,500 priests in those years.
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When most of the bishops have released lists of priests accused of abuse, they have omitted religious order priests who worked in their dioceses, leaving the public with a potentially incomplete view of the problem.
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While Pope Francis acknowledged the idea of allowing faithful married men to become priests, he also emphasized in the interview that men who are already priests would not be allowed to marry, according to CNN.
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Compulsory training has also been introduced for priests under his authority.
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Both sheikhs and priests have been involved in dispelling these beliefs.
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Yet many nuns and priests were unaccountably vague about the event.
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According to her, people were more afraid of priests than police.
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Overall, at least 3,000 priests have been accused of abuse worldwide.
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Errázuriz has been accused of covering up cases for abusive priests.
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Among them is that not enough men want to be priests.
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The bishops' solution: Do anything other than ordaining women as priests.
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Today it is down to just nine locations and four priests.
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Here, the focus is on two priests and one unlucky family.
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He was only one of several priests convicted of abusing children.
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The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests condemned his release.
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He said many of his parents' friends were nuns and priests.
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Contact with worker-priests there just fired him all the more.
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Now, more than 75 percent of priests are 34 or younger.
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And while some Irish priests marched with the Southern Christian Leadership
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The Catholic Church followed the same pattern in protecting pedophile priests.
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And then there is the church's requirement of celibacy for priests.
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And allegations of child abuse have been made against other priests.
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There are no priests in the Bible (other than Jewish ones).
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Is O'Malley one of those priests who don't understand real life?
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It was a period where priests were quite literally gods anointed.
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Sexual abuse by Catholic priests and its cover up by bishops
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Taoist priests still use many of the same terms and practices.
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"Leave her alone, you f***ing priests," the guttural voice shouted.
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This is how desperate the priests were for peace and quiet.
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This month, he met senior Catholic priests in Kandy and Matara.
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In addition, Catholic priests respond to pressure from their own bishops.
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Priests often believe they can do no wrong; this is dangerous.
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Under Chinese law, priests and bishops must register with the state.
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Some priests had already been suspended for their behavior, he said.
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None of those priests were still in ministry, he said then.
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"The priests before, they were put on a pedestal," she said.
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Priests who leave are often completely excommunicated, like they never existed.
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Ignoring the numbing cacophony of thousands of prophets, priests, and gurus.
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Our American priests and deacons should be picking their own bishops.
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Has the church paid legal fees in the past for priests?
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The state also built a new Taoist academy to train priests.
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The archdiocese had 806 priests in 1995, compared with 700 today.
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Pope Francis is giving Catholic priests the power to forgive abortions.
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Francis's announcement on Monday means priests may not forgive abortions perpetually.
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Wuerl has a mixed record when it comes to predatory priests.
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Vatican The Vatican has secret rules for the children of priests.
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In some instances, priests were suspended or removed from the ministry.
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Critics said the policy had often shielded priests from criminal punishment.
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Some of the local priests have taken it more to heart.
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In 2016, Francis gave Catholic priests the power to forgive abortions.
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Eastern Rite priests in union with Rome have married for centuries.
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In Chile, Pope Francis apologized to victims of abuse by priests.
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"Prepare for divine justice," Pope Francis warned abusive priests at Christmas.
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Now 68, he says he was repeatedly abused by priests there.
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They don't want to know how many gay priests there are.
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Now a group of priests are trying to bring them back.
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Priests really have seduced and abused nuns, and still do today.
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Many priests acquired HIV and AIDS throughout the 80s and 90s.
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Instead, many priests found new children to victimize and abused again.
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Some of the priests' names in the report have been redacted.
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The latter is, well, a painting of a pair of priests.
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Since Vatican reforms in the mid 1960s, "permanent deacons" -- those who do not plan on becoming priests -- can perform many of the same functions as priests, including preach, celebrate marriages, lead funeral services and run parishes.
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During a 2013 government inquiry, he denied covering up abuse committed by priests when he served as the Archbishop of Melbourne from 1996 to 2001 but acknowledged his late predecessor had destroyed documents to protect priests.
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Those strongly for and against female priests in the Catholic Church see a female deaconate as a means to enabling a review of introducing women as priests, per the New York Times and the National Catholic Reporter.
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This despite an investigation by lay leaders who warned "there must be consequences" for those who provided refuge for priests accused of raping schoolchildren, which often meant that the accused priests were shifted from parish to parish.
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However, Fitzpatrick deemed the move impotent ahead of its release, citing the several deceased priests and New York state statute of limitations as preventing prosecution for "dozens" of named priests for allegations dating back to the 1950s.
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When he answered a question about priests sexually abusing nuns, Francis recalled that his predecessor, Benedict XVI, was "a strong man" who he said had sought to remove examples of sexual abuse and even slavery by priests.
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It said Vatican leaders "tend to suggest that those priests who are openly gay are the ones responsible for the sexual abuse of children and minors," and asked for a rethinking of the policies around gay priests.
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Each individual diocese has listed the names of its accused priests online.
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Francis celebrated Mass on Saturday with three priests trained by the Rev.
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Ted Cruz asked Kavanaugh about his dissent in Priests for Life v.
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The priests could be seen in the audience Thursday wearing VIP badges.
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I received all of this hate on campus from the priests specifically.
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So, if priests didn't have children, it was better for the Church.
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In efforts to raise awareness, Bhagwat's team is counseling parents and priests.
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In France, about 800 priests die every year while 100 are ordained.
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Women priests are driven by the most radical teachings of the Gospel.
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Do the women adhere to a code of celibacy like male priests?
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Priests sneak in as cooks or mechanics to tend to their flocks.
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Francis and his predecessors have ruled out allowing women to become priests.
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The push to allow married men to serve as priests isn't progress.
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He said "many bishops, priests, religious and lay people" had requested it.
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They want the rule requiring priests to be celibate to be scrapped.
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The Vatican's priests would like to participate, as would the Faroe Islanders.
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I tend to think of VC's as priests in the tech religion.
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Judas, who betrays Jesus with a kiss after conspiring with the priests.
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Four priests in the Providence Diocese are scheduled to retire this year.
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Many priests seem to be similarly sceptical, even at the Ise shrine.
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"They (the priests) can always say &aposshe wanted it,&apos" Demasure said.
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Google is doing the work that priests and rabbis used to do.
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Meanwhile, Ireland faces a dire shortage in priests for that same reason.
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Sleep have long been the high priests of heavy metal's weed church.
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Brad Doyle: I think I see young priests bringing an energy, definitely.
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He kept a secret binder that listed priests accused of sexual abuse.
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Well before the Diet of Worms, Luther began advising priests to marry.
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But the priests and their backers say they are addressing real needs.
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In the past, priests have taken to their pulpits to lambast politicians.
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Crimes committed by predatory priests aren't just crimes against the Catholic faithful.
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Liberals are also pointing to Kavanaugh's dissent in Priests for Life v.
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One placard urged politicians and priests to account for their own sins.
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Authorities did everything right – they brought in priests, ministers and grief counselors.
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The role is reserved for men, who, unlike priests, can be married.
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Two priests recited psalms and sang songs, backed by women with guitars.
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"Priests have been putting divine energy into it for centuries," he said.
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"As far as priests and nuns being believed, that's gone," she said.
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Many native students were sexually and physically abused by priests and nuns.
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"Someone who inspires priests and whores is worth taking seriously," Varys observes.
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Some bishops have provided work histories and even photographs of accused priests.
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To allow priests to love each other and even to get married!
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He argued in his dissent in 2015's Priests for Life v.
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Most of those suspected of abuse were Catholic priests and religious brothers.
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Protestant priests, likewise, are not bound by priestly celibacy, and can marry.
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Post Malone Most Palone Priests God is dead but buzz bands aren't.
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Scores of victims have filed lawsuits alleging abuse by priests on Guam.
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He interpreted the rigidity as a "form of fundamentalism," particularly in priests.
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The reporters quickly calculate that that would mean 90 priests in Boston.
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Fernando Karadima, once one of Chile's most prominent Catholic priests, of abuse.
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Wuerl is portrayed as having a checkered record of protecting predator priests.
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How the priests of Chichén Itzá came by victims remains a mystery.
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Such a settlement was reached with Priests for Life earlier this year.
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Go deeper: Sexual abuse survivors sue the Vatican over predatory U.S. priests
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Christian vicars and Catholic priests opened their churches to the relief effort.
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Priests that were misbehaving were outed, but not bishops, not the cardinal?
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Hundreds of hundreds of priests and nuns were killed in the genocide.
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Frank Pavone, the anti-abortion crusader and director of Priests for Life.
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" Catholics said much the same about the priests in their parish. "U.
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In Paris, priests led barefoot worshippers in processions meant to show contrition.
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Many Protestant denominations have ordained women as priests and bishops for decades.
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The fate of abusers in religious orders can differ from diocesan priests.
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What they may take away is this: Catholic priests are twisted characters.
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Elizabeth Dias on gay Catholic priests in The Times is just devastating.
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Ninety-three priests and brothers have been convicted there, according to BishopAccountability.org.
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Allowing married men to become priests would potentially help alleviate that shortfall.
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Now Pell has been accused of actively covering up abuse by priests.
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Pell has told the inquiry that the church made "enormous mistakes" and "catastrophic" choices by refusing to believe abused children, shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish and over-relying on counselling of priests to solve the problem.
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"Hundreds of former priests and retired priests are living in penury in India, as most families refuse to take them back when they are old and have no work," said Kalamparambil, who quit the priesthood after 27 years.
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Malone came under fire after his former executive assistant, Siobhan O'Connor, leaked documents to CNN and other media outlets suggesting the bishop did not sanction priests accused of sexual abuse and concealed the identities of alleged predator priests.
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In what would amount to a radical shake-up of centuries of tradition and religious orthodoxy, the recommendations called for protocols for screening priests, mandatory reporting of religious confessions and a suggestion to end mandatory celibacy for priests.
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"This new transparency by the church is a good thing for victims, naming priests who are predators," said Mary McKenna, a leader of the New York City chapter of Snap, or Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
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Next month he will offer rice from two regions of Japan (chosen based on priests' interpretation of the cracks in a burnt tortoise shell) to the gods to thank them for the harvest, flanked by torch-bearing priests.
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Pell told the inquiry that the Church had made "enormous mistakes" and "catastrophic" choices by refusing to believe abused children, shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish and over-relying on counseling of priests to solve the problem.
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In the early days of the church, married men often became priests, though they sometimes ceased having sex with their wives, an extension of what historians say was the abstinence required of Jewish priests before entering the sacred Temple.
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It doesn't make any recommendations about measures against accused priests still in active ministry; it passes those claims to the diocese, which then conducts its own assessment and decides whether or not the priests should be disciplined or removed.
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Yet the most outspoken American victims group, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, said that Cardinal Tobin, like the church as a whole, must do more, such as posting the names of all credibly accused priests online.
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At least 152 Catholic priests in Mexico have been suspended over the past nine years for sexual abuse against minors, and some of those priests have been jailed over those offences, Mexico's Archbishop for Monterrey said earlier this month.
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Pell had told the inquiry that the Church had made "enormous mistakes" and "catastrophic" choices by refusing to believe abused children, shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish and over-relying on counseling of priests to solve the problem.
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Other issues: The conference is shadowed by a series of fresh scandals: the sexual abuse of nuns, the shaming and closeting of gay priests, and revelations that the church has secret guidelines for dealing with priests who father children.
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Though fewer than about 10 priests in the United States have come out publicly, gay priests and researchers estimate that gay men probably make up at least 30 to 40 percent of the Catholic clergy in the United States.
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People automatically accord priests a kind of deference available to few other professionals.
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Priests often confess lapses over and over again, with little effect on behavior.
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As the priests provided the details, the reality of the situation sank in.
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Burke would only say that they were all victims of abuse by priests.
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Two priests kidnapped by the military government accused Bergoglio of not protecting them.
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After all, physical suffering, according to the priests, brings us closer to God.
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In some ways, the question of allowing priests to wed should be easier.
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However, thousands of Catholic priests accused of abusing children have not been excommunicated.
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Perhaps because we have fewer priests around we are not so accommodating today.
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The women priests movement, Bianchi explains, welcomes all "wandering Catholics," including LGBT members.
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Many priests and members of the Georgian Orthodox Church hierarchy trained in Russia.
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Go deeper: Almost 400 Catholic priests, staff in Illinois accused of child abuse
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In the Catholic Church, priests, nuns and monks all take vows of celibacy.
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Ultimately, the priests betrayed those they were supposed to protect, say the victims.
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Not only by the faithful, but also by some priests and even bishops!
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He also acknowledged that cover-ups allowed pedophile priests to continue abusing children.
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The iconoclastic leader also tried to install non-Brahmins as priests in temples.
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Priests and nuns of the Roman Catholic church controlled the majority of them.
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Of those implicated in wrongdoing, it said, 139 were bishops, priests or deacons.
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The Catholic Church shuttled around sex-abusing priests for decades with little reckoning.
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However, more experienced priests or professional celebrants could charge you up to $450.
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Ordain women and the problem of sexual abuse among priests could largely disappear.
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It's even awakening something deeper in the straights: attractions to other hot priests.
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Priests do a little too much walking and not nearly enough hoverboarding nowadays.
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Like most Catholic priests, Conroy, a Jesuit, has taken an oath of celibacy.
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ELSEWHERE > Pope Francis on Monday condemned the crime of sexual abuse by priests.
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The report said that 301 priests abused more than 85033,000 children since 1947.
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Priests in the quake zone held their regular Sunday services in large tents.
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It was 230, and priests were still thought to be holy, and Finn . . .
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It's what the pansy priests say through the grate when you spill it.
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War, this perspective led many priests to engage directly in politics—in some
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He describes parish priests as "little monsters" who "throw stones" at poor sinners.
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Democrats are also holding up Kavanaugh's 2015 dissent in Priests for Life v.
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Morrisey's office also reportedly has not received all copies of complaints against priests.
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Fides said some 200 priests had written to the pope promising their obedience.
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That same priest also belonged to a child porn ring with other priests.
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The only "Buddhists" were Buddhist monks and the only "Taoists" were Taoist priests.
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Nothing. Most cowardly priests and pastors remained silent, refusing to take a stand.
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It contained graphic examples of children being groomed and sexually abused by priests.
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Priests from the South occasionally visit, usually accompanying aid deliveries or humanitarian projects.
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Deacons are ordained clerics who sit just behind priests in the Church hierarchy.
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After his election in 2013, Pope Francis swiftly ruled out ordaining women priests.
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Lonergan's arrest brings the number of accused priests in Allentown up to 53.
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He lived by the ceremonies, like how priests would have have different rites.
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Nuns across the globe are standing up accusing priests and bishops of abuse.
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The basilica is run by Benedictine priests who live in an adjacent abbey.
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Doctors refused to see patients and priests refused to administer the last rites.
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They were made against priests across the state, not in a single parish.
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Requiring priests to turn in people who confess to child abuse will backfire.
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Under Benedict's watch, the Church defrocked 384 priests accused of child sex abuse.
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Politicians who supported that measure were vilified by priests or threatened with excommunication.
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Most obviously, priests may have supported politicians who were willing to scuttle investigations.
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In January, bishops in Texas named nearly 300 priests credibly accused of abuse.
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Church attendance steeply declined as did trust in community parishes and beloved priests.
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And it raises the question: How many other accused priests is he concealing?
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Many of the priests named on the lists are dead, but not all.
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Above, Sister Fox joined a vigil for Catholic priests in Manila on Monday.
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"As far as priests and nuns being believed, that's gone," one parishioner said.
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Sun Myung Moon, and was excommunicated for ordaining four married men as priests.
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Prosecutors say 158 people, including bishops, priests and lay people are under investigation.
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The status of the 34 accused priests is as follows: • Fourteen are dead.
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Some priests' children are denied their identities and recognition by their fathers' families.
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He invited in Roman Catholic priests, rabbis, imams and leaders of other faiths.
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It reminds me of the way the Catholic Church moved the priests along.
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The number of theologians or priests investigated for advocating supposedly suspect views shrank.
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It included the recommendation that celibacy -- compulsory for Catholic priests -- should be voluntary.
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When will Mary Magdalene be canonized and when can we have women priests?
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He has also "been joined by priests and seminarians there," Mr. Zwilling said.
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She also points to three oversized tapestries, based on cloaks worn by priests.
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Only two priests were charged with crimes as a result of the investigation.
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The Kaczynskis were exhumed in the presence of prosecutors, priests and family members.
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Several priests and nuns have been charged for their actions during the genocide.
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The priests all look alike with their beards, black robes and, sometimes, hats.
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Since 1947, the report said, 301 priests had abused more than 1,000 victims.
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And that error cannot be corrected as long as women cannot be priests.
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Eight priests who went to the police station to help were also detained.
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Priests cannot marry, so sexuality from the start was about abstinence, and obedience.
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Many of the priests have stayed sharp by playing in weekly pickup games.
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In the world of these high priests, nothing can be what it seems.
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The Supreme Court decision said identifying these priests would raise due process issues.
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Pell told an Australian inquiry last year that the Church had made "catastrophic" choices by refusing to believe abused children, shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish, and relying too heavily on the counsel of priests to solve the problem.
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"We've even had to arrange for priests to get in contact with the woman because she's that desperate about the position she's in and the fact she never thought she'd be here," she said of abortion advocate priests near women's clinics.
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Pell told the Australian inquiry last year that the Church had made "catastrophic" choices by refusing to believe abused children, shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish, and relying too heavily on the counsel of priests to solve the problem.
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The vast majority of them were against the Church and its various dioceses in the state, as claimants accused priests of sexually abusing them as children and Church leaders of covering up the priests' crimes, according to state court records.
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Among the proposals was a call to make celibacy for priests voluntary, because it "contributed to the occurrence of child sexual abuse" and an amendment to canon law that would allow priests to report disclosures of sexual abuse made during Confession.
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Cardinal Wuerl previously served as the archbishop of Pittsburgh, and the report included accounts of his allowing several priests accused of sexually abusing children to remain in ministry, after relying on the advice of psychologists who had assessed the priests.
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Among the commission's recommendations were a push to end mandatory celibacy for Roman Catholic priests and another to require priests and other religious leaders to alert the authorities if they learned of abuse during confession or a similarly privileged context.
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In his document, Francis suggested solutions to solve the shortage of priests that his conservative critics had made, such as praying for more vocations and sending more priests already in the nine Amazon basin countries to remote areas rather than abroad.
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Conservatives are particularly up in arms about the possibility of allowing older married "proven men" with families and a strong standing in local communities to be ordained as priests in the Amazon as a solution to a shortage of priests.
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Loudspeakers blared, a Mexican band played, and priests and seminarians danced in conga lines.
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"There are many more [priests] who have not been held into account," said Ndahiro.
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Over the past 30 years, the number of priests has been going down dramatically.
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As the world has changed, the Church has had a harder time recruiting priests.
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The church isn't made up of the priests; it's made up of the congregation.
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This suggests that it is enemy fire, not friendly priests, that makes the difference.
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By 1904 some 10,000 religious schools had been shut; thousands of priests fled France.
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The women priests movement believes that celibacy must be optional for every human being.
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Francis should encourage powerful priests who lied or misled to own up to it.
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The law makes the world's 415,000 Catholic priests and 660,000 religious sisters mandated reporters.
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Only priests can perform exorcisms, and only with their bishop's permission or a license.
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Ignacio Ellacuría, and five other priests in the garden in front of their house.
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In April two Catholic priests were killed in Benue state, along with 17 congregants.
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The priests named in the report included monsignors, auxiliary bishops, bishops, archbishops, and cardinals.
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More than 100 of the 300 named priests have already died, the report states.
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Of these, 48 priests and church staff preyed on children on Cardinal Law's watch.
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It is also because of revelations about the sexual abuse of children by priests.
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Pope Francis blessed the holy oils the priests would use to administer the sacraments.
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Its credibility has been damaged by its cover-up of abuse by paedophile priests.
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Wuerl wrote to priests late Monday, ahead of Tuesday&aposs release of the report.
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The court said it identified more than 300 "predator priests" in the six dioceses.
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You don't need the blessing of priests; you don't have to confess your sins.
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He spends much of his stay apologizing for the Church's inaction toward abusive priests.
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The clip also asks whether the local and state police were protecting the priests.
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Do you belong to a church that says women cannot be priests or pastors?
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Sometimes we consult immediate figures in our lives, like parents, therapists, lawyers, and priests.
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And yet, at the same time, there's been a resurgence of millennials becoming priests.
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Do you think your generation of priests approach the church differently than older generations?
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What I've gathered from the experience of younger priests is that people desire truth.
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News of Irish priests preying on underage boys first surfaced in the late 1980s.
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This requires bishops not to disclose information on serious offences allegedly committed by priests.
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Pennsylvania alone found 300 priests sexually abused at least 1,000 children since the 1940s.
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The coffins are about 3,000 years old and were probably for priests and children.
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Francis also demanded that the rebellious priests write a letter of apology to Okpaleke.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro had requested that the priests' names be made public.
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Their most common line of attack focuses on Francis's supposed support for gay priests.
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Bishops allowed most accused priests to continue in the ministry without treatment or discipline.
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There are several cases of Christian priests who are imprisoned solely for their practices.
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The Taiwan Catholic Regional Seminary trains priests from many parts of Asia, including China.
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Priests rushed to help him, grabbing his arm and helping him to his feet.
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I was more concerned about the fact that he had been abused by priests.
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Prosecutors say there are 158 people including bishops, priests and lay people under investigation.
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Like priests, soccer coaches have easy access to children and the trust of parents.
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Among the founders were other nuns, priests, former clerics, a monsignor and Father Doyle.
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"Who am I to judge?" the pope famously said, when asked about gay priests.
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Just 22002 priests were convicted of a crime, and 2384 served time in prison.
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So did many Catholic priests, politicians, Hollywood celebrities and some award-winning male academics.
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Pope Francis had grim tidings for predatory priests, in this life and the next.
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She also noted that the diocese had previously publicly acknowledged substantiated allegations against priests.
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The magazine has drawn attention for exposing the sexual abuse of nuns by priests.
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One of the Pennsylvania dioceses he represents, Harrisburg, has publicly named all accused priests.
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Nassar's so-called medical treatments exemplified this, as did the actions of many priests.
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"They allowed priests to remain active for as long as 40 years," he said.
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There are fewer than half as many French parish priests today as in 1992.
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They were the judges, the community leaders, the high priests of the criminal world.
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"You should actually be shot," he said, using an epithet to refer to priests.
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" Some priests are "good," he said, adding, "There have been too many cover-ups.
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The priests have been flying over Tver on Sobriety Day every year since 2006.
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Aid workers, priests and government officials are held hostage in the area, he added.
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The basilica is now run by Benedictine priests who live in an adjacent abbey.
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Fernando Karadima, one of Chile's most notorious abusive priests, wrote on Twitter on Monday.
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Before long three priests in brown robes entered the pen to lead a blessing.
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In the short term, most headlines will focus on the issue of married priests.
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"Because Catholic priests are celibate, they're in a loving relationship with God," Sorrentino explained.
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But Africa, with 1,200 new priests, and Asia, with 1,300, picked up the slack.
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Estevao Antonio Pango watched Francis along with hundreds of other priests, nuns and seminarians.
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Almost all of the six sons were more or less qualified to be priests.
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In the name of and for the good of all the priests -- Please resign.
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Recent stories in the magazine include one on sexual abuse of nuns by priests.
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This was part of a college for priests built halfway through the 19th century.
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Orthodox priests sang prayers in the street, leading a memorial service near the college.
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African-Americans had been told that we could not be priests, bishops or archbishops.
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Later, the diocese revised its list of credibly accused priests from 42 to 78.
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Catholic leaders also balked at the suggestion they end mandatory celibacy for priests. 5.
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She has met with lawyers and smugglers and priests about reuniting with her daughter.
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But I am asking that not all priests be tarred by the same brush.
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It requires male priests to be celibate, or at least pretend to be celibate.
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He reveled in the thought of the priests finding pennies in the change box.
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The authorities recently detained 32 carolers and the priests who went to help them.
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CreditCredit MILWAUKEE — Gregory Greiten was 262 years old when the priests organized the game.
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I love the flickering torchlight emanating from the chamber where the priests judge Radamès.
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Now the pope is questioning the church's longstanding rule that priests cannot be married.
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An instance beyond the priests' wildest beliefs, they later "purified" the area using milk.
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Queensland, the third-largest state, has never exempted priests from mandatory reporting of abuse.
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Some Mexican priests have reportedly taken narco alms—or donations from the drug traffickers.
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Last year, Australia's most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, said the Church had made "enormous mistakes" and "catastrophic" choices by refusing to believe abused children, shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish and over-relying on counseling of priests to solve the problem.
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The report implicates some prelates: Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who served as the bishop of Pittsburgh before becoming archbishop of Washington, D.C., repeatedly allowed accused priests to remain in ministry, usually at the recommendation of the church's own treatment centers for abusive priests.
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The long-running scandal over sexual misconduct in the church has grown beyond abuse by priests to focus scrutiny on bishops who have themselves been accused of abuse or of turning a blind eye to abusive priests and a deaf ear to victims.
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In recent years, as additional allegations of sexual abuse by priests surface — more than a dozen states are investigating abuse claims after a cover-up in Pennsylvania involving at least 300 priests — it is not uncommon to see a parish support the accused.
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There isn't a lot of public data about how many priests have left the priesthood, but figures released by the Vatican in 2007 say that an average of 1076 priests left the church in some capacity, every year between 2000 and 2004.
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Cardinal Donald Wuerl, in a letter published Thursday by his archdiocese, also asked priests to let parishioners know during Mass this Sunday that he shares their pain over widespread allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests and cover-ups by bishops.
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Many priests and a few bishops have been caught up in the abuse crisis, which exploded onto the international stage in 2002 when the Boston Globe newspaper revealed priests had sexually abused children for decades and church leaders had covered it up.
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I know, for instance, that Australia has seen passage of controversial laws that requires priests to divulge what they hear in confession—which critics argue is problematic because priests often do not know who is on the other side of the confessional.
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Feit allegedly discussed the crime with two other priests around the time of the killing.
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During the war, priests and Catholic parishioners alike were slaughtered, while anticlerical laws were enacted.
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Francis wants to help the priests heal "once they become conscious of their own wounds."
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And up close to those priests labeled as "troubled" reveals a sad if complicated story.
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The report criticized internal practices of moving priests and not reporting allegations to law enforcement.
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The priests, Theresa remembers, preached that women needed to become moms, schoolteachers, nurses, or nuns.
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Business people and bureaucracies take up some of the social role of priests and sacraments.
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Supporters of the pope think that, with more priests and official blessing, this could change.
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Indeed, he is inviting married couples to share in the work conventionally allocated to priests.
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In western Europe and Latin America, priests and bishops are instead contending with growing secularism.
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What other kinds of activism or social work is the women priests movement involved with?
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Armando Flores Navarro, rector of the Mexican College in Rome, which houses visiting Mexican priests.
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In St. Peter's Square, priests and seminarians from the Vatican threw snowballs at each other.
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It was probably used by priests in conducting rituals and determining when to wage war.
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But you don't want priests whose business model is to sell access to someone else.
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Those calling for women priests say he was only following the norms of his time.
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Some Moscow-aligned priests have been called in for questioning by the Ukrainian security services.
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A few priests talk fondly of reviving the idea of the emperor as a god.
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As a stopgap measure, Turkey has granted citizenship to several priests brought over from Greece.
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Scores of students, peons, clerks and priests sit on antiquated chairs in the tea shop.
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Upwards of 300 "predator priests" stand accused of the decades-long abuse, the report said.
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There was also a concern in Rome that certain priests were advocating violence - they weren't.
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Surprisingly, astrologers, Hindu priests and shamans could hold the key to ending this perilous cycle.
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Eighty-four percent believed that doing so would increase calls for ordaining women as priests.
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Construction on Guam's first Catholic church began in 1669, after the arrival of Spanish priests.
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Deacons, like priests, are ordained ministers, and, as in the priesthood, they must be men.
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All those priests are either dead or have been removed from the ministry, Zwilling said.
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The school and the group of Catholic priests that founded it apologized for the sale.
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Elsewhere, call the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) at 877-762-7432.
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He had a few priests spotting him, and they helped him back to his feet.
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In St. Peter's Square in the Vatican priests and seminarians threw snowballs at each other.
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On the other end of the scale is the new release from D.C. band Priests.
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VICE interviewed several of these millennial priests to understand how they approach religion in 2016.
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The litigation forced the publication of secret files documenting abuse by Franciscan priests and brothers.
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He neither modifies fixed Catholic teachings nor demands that parish priests merely enforce the rules.
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Priests in Montenegro, meanwhile have spearheaded efforts to derail their country's plans to join NATO.
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As with adherents of many religions, Buddhists typically give donations to priests for their services.
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He said the church continues to fight for the priests, but does nothing for victims.
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Throughout it all, the church stumbled over itself to protect its priests and its reputation.
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In 2002, Law resigned after reports he moved paedophile priests between parishes without informing authorities.
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The soldiers ordered the priests to lie face down on the ground and shot them.
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He does not even represent the majority of priests who have not joined his organization.
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The photos showed priests and well-dressed parishioners smiling over baskets of colorfully dyed eggs.
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" He said that this approach was "very common" among priests, but that "it varies widely.
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It was also nice to meet the other priests, who were very warm and welcoming.
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And in many cases, the statute of limitations for bringing charges against priests has expired.
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In some, reporting allegations to the civil authorities may be a death sentence for priests.
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The church is reeling from the fallout of the sexual abuse of children by priests.
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Since Thursday, four of the former priests were arrested in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan.
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The last bishop said naming accused priests would be a violation of the Ten Commandments.
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The worshipers then flayed the victims, and priests were said to have worn their skin.
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And it's twofold — we're not just losing priests, we're losing the number of congregants, too.
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The pope has been accused of reacting slowly to well-known sexual abuses by priests.
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For years, he has scorned priests who raise themselves as unreachable elites invested with authority.
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In 2011, many English-speaking priests panned their effort, finding the language clunky and archaic.
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More shallow people, who think priests should be holier than God, won't accept someone's return.
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Deacons are one of three orders of Christian ministry, in addition to bishops and priests.
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Deacons are able to perform most functions of priests, including the distribution of holy communion.
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If it did, all Christians, not just priests, would be called upon to be celibate.
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Father Conroy is a Jesuit, an order of priests viewed by some as more liberal.
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On Monday, Archbishop Negri warned the priests what dark forces they would be up against.
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But in a papal document released Wednesday, Francis ignored the boldest one: allowing married priests.
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Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, will also serve as co-chair.
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Some have theorized that the priests filled their quotas by feeding and catching wild ibises.
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Some priests convicted of crimes, however, testified that Cardinal Pell did know of their activity.
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Pfanz's research adds another possibility: the fact that the animals and priests are different heights.
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All of the bishops and most of the priests named in the report escaped punishment.
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A Jesuit university is a university run by the Jesuits, an order of Catholic priests.
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"The successful efforts against everything from abusive Catholic priests to Harvey Weinstein are good examples."
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Under current church law, priests who violate the secrecy of the sacrament can face excommunication.
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"When you see rigid Christians, bishops, priests, you know there are problems there," he said.
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The storm also destroyed the roof of the house where priests live, and apartments nearby.
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This led to individual priests continuing to commit crimes after being shielded by their supervisors.
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It detailed abuse in six dioceses over 70 years, listing more than 300 abusive priests.
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Many priests celebrated when the bishop, who faces trial this year, was released on bail.
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Some children of priests, however, wish their fathers were forced out of the ministry. Rev.
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Fewer than about 20023 priests in the United States have dared to come out publicly.
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For many of today's priests and bishops over 50, this environment limited healthy sexual development.
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It was a revelation: There were other people studying to be priests who were gay.
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The stories are uneven, wavering like one of his tipsy priests between transcendence and incoherence.
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Like many priests of his generation, he was sent to Puerto Rico to learn Spanish.
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Kennedy also requested that two Roman Catholic priests remain with the body until the funeral.
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The disclosures have typically named no more than a few dozen priests at a time.
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At least on the issue of sexuality, pastors and priests have found new common ground.
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The Brooklyn diocese, which also includes Queens, named more than 100 accused priests in February.
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Some Eastern Catholic churches are also allowed to maintain their tradition of having married priests.
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The 11 priests were kept anonymous because they contested the allegations against them as false.
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That's because the Catholic hierarchy spent decades silencing its priests' victims, the grand jury said.
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Under his watch, the church defrocked 384 priests who'd been accused of child sex abuse.
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There's also a part of me that's concerned priests will also just make things up.
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Within the Catholic Church, priests are supposed to be totally celibate, regardless of sexual orientation.
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Here are some details of their findings: - A 23-page report into the diocese of Ferns in County Wexford - the first official inquiry into the activities of abusive priests - detailed the Church's handling of 2796 allegations against 21 priests dating back to the mid-1960s.
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The times they are a-changin': The Catholic Church's discipline of clerical celibacy has been in place for nearly two thousand years, though the Church does already allow some exceptions — priests in eastern rite Catholicism and previously married Anglican priests who convert to Catholicism.
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BE FRONT-LINE PRIESTS On Tuesday morning, the Argentine pontiff urged priests not to be resigned to evils around them like drug trafficking, and not to remain entrenched in their churches, but rather to head out to the front lines to help those suffering.
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At least as early as the 1960s, figures like Father Gerald Fitzgerald, head of an order called the Servants of the Paraclete that provided counseling for troubled priests, expressed concerns directly to the Vatican that pedophile priests were not being treated with appropriate seriousness.
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The abuse of children by pedophile priests is an ancient problem, but something new happened in Catholicism between 1960 and 1980: The prevalence of pedophilia stayed about the same, but suddenly the rate of priests groping and seducing and raping teenagers shot way, way up.
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Whether he had in mind priests who have sexually abused children was not clear, but his message might not be welcomed by victims and other critics who say the church has been far too forgiving of those priests and the prelates who have protected them.
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A long line of priests and bishops have been toppled by the Roman Catholic Church's abuse crisis, which exploded onto the international stage in 2002 when the Boston Globe newspaper revealed priests had sexually abused children for decades and church leaders had covered it up.
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Here's how James Ponet, Yale's Jewish chaplain, describes the Maccabeean Revolt: Armed Hasmonean (Maccabee) priests and their comrades from the rural town of Modi'in attacked urban Jews, priests and laity alike, who supported Greek reform, like the gymnasium and new rules for governing commerce.
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The bodies were then decapitated and priests removed the skin and muscle from the corpses' heads.
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The allegations prompted a probe that has led to the ousting of bishops and other priests.
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Some priests in the world's second-biggest Catholic country have denounced the violence of drug gangs.
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For the first thousand years of Christianity it was not uncommon for priests to have families.
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A CBS News poll last year said nearly 70% of American Catholics favor letting priests marry.
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Only ordained priests can perform the most central sacraments, such as celebrating Mass and hearing confession.
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Priests who bequeathed property to their sons presented a risk that church property would be lost.
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Many women priests are part of One Billion Rising [a campaign to end violence against women].
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The women priests were my way back to the entering a dialogue with Catholicism, my history.
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Then there's that wonderful theme, played thousands of times for chefs and showmen, professors and priests.
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For one thing, it shows that in religious societies you must win over imams and priests.
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The Church teaches that women cannot become priests because Jesus chose only men as his apostles.
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Catholic priests joined relatives and friends trying to put names to the dead at one mortuary.
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The church has adopted a zero-tolerance policy which helped remove 700 priests from the ministry.
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As a result, the Jesuits ordered Father Gabriel, and eight other priests, to leave Baghdad immediately.
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The number of priests has dropped more drastically, from 88,192 in 1997 to 71,142 in 2017.
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From composers to priests, artists to architects, scientists to writers, she conquered hearts—and broke them.
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Kamel said that most of the injured appeared to be priests and members of the choir.
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Then, the priests would extract any remaining moisture from the body using what was essentially salt.
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That may be true, Catholic priests said, but Vatican City also has an awfully big door.
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But he acknowledged his predecessor, Archbishop Frank Little, now deceased, had destroyed documents to protect priests.
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There are a number of priests in the U.S. who are authorized to utter these words.
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Chances are high they are the ones whose pastors and priests encourage them to do so.
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The pope's visit is highlighting many Poles' desire for priests who will listen, rather than judge.
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It quickly became a local institution, regularly frequented by prominent politicians, priests, musicians, and sports stars.
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Progressive pastors and priests campaigned against the military dictators who ruled the country in past decades.
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Those gathered around were silent, and several priests dressed in white stood off to the side.
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It lists more than 13 alleged predator priests accused of raping more than 21,23 identifiable children.
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U.S.: About 70 dioceses and religious orders have released lists of accused priests, according to BishopAccountability.org.
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Loud applause greeted the arrival of the priests as they made their way up the aisle.
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Priests for Life is the largest ministry in the Catholic Church focused exclusively on ending abortion.
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The intricate engravings indicate that the mummies were once highly respected people, likely priests and children.
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Why join a church whose priests are little monsters and whose members like to throw stones?
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Of them, nine men have been ordained as priests and one woman has taken her vows.
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The numbers, though modest, help to ease the steep decline in incoming priests, sisters and brothers.
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Victims and their advocates said they were grateful that the report outed so many abusive priests.
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Nineteen living priests and deacons are included, almost all of whom have been removed from ministry.
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Law never faced criminal sanctions for his role in allowing abusive priests to remain in parishes.
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The lists don't say what the priests did or where or when, and they're probably incomplete.
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There are now over 21982 chaplains employed in the prisons, including priests, ministers, rabbis and imams.
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Temples were run by committees, and they used monks and priests as needed for certain ceremonies.
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Now, priests say, the Church's leadership is more fragmented and, because of that, carries less clout.
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Roughly one in 10 of the Catholic priests in England and Wales was formerly an Anglican.
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They sneak into people's minds in ways that cannot be controlled by governments, priests or others.
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The robo-monk may also serve as a substitute to human priests when they aren't available.
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Not only were there no ministers or priests in these islands, there were no police, either.
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In July civil prosecutors referred to 36 investigations involving an unspecified number of priests and bishops.
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Manjit Singh and Amarjit Singh, both Sikh priests, performed a Sikh ceremony earlier in the day.
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Priests at the Church of St. Ignatius drained the holy water basin next to the entrance.
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Hindu priests helped protect the turtle by declaring that sacrificing them was not a religious practice.
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Even more painful, the report contained accounts of bishops who had actively defended the accused priests.
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An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the sexual assault allegations against Catholic priests in Pennsylvania.
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The idea was that this would make all bishops and priests legitimate and unite the church.
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Journalists at the paper ultimately identified more than 70 Boston priests who had sexually abused children.
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It features contributions from Talib Kweli, Thurston Moore, Tom Morello, Priests, and Amanda Palmer, among others.
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Let us never forget the unbelievable hypocrisy of Wall Street, the high priests of unfettered capitalism.
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The priests were joined by a handful of workers and other worshipers, also in hard hats.
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Still, he has declined to release a full list of accused priests as other bishops have.
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It also urged Australia's Roman Catholic leadership to press Rome to end mandatory celibacy for priests.
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Inside, guests, priests and the press filled the floor and gallery of the mansion's Round Room.
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Eight priests who went to the police station to help were instead detained by the authorities.
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At that time, Bishop Richard B. Malone stated that no accused priests remained in active ministry.
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About the priests and then about the Americans when they come, and how disgusting they are.
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It's where children are sold and raised to become priests and priestesses, temple prostitutes and warriors.
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While the grand jury named 301 predator priests, they actually got reports on more than 400.
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Third, for an appearance of integrity, send priests for "evaluation" at church-run psychiatric treatment centers.
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