"The religious orders have never gotten the scrutiny or the attention the Catholic bishops have gotten," said Jeffrey Anderson, a lawyer who has filed suits against Catholic officials and religious orders on behalf of victims.
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Religious orders represent about a third of all American Catholic clergy.
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The fate of abusers in religious orders can differ from diocesan priests.
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Religious orders are independent from the Vatican and are responsible for their own finances.
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They had filed more than 100 criminal complaints against individual members of religious orders.
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The IOR's mandate is to manage funds for Vatican employees, religious orders and charities.
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Replacement management is available: the nuns globally who run charities, schools and religious orders.
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The membership of female religious orders is about three times larger than that of male orders.
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The reports in the 1990s were prepared by members of religious orders for top church officials.
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But the Scicluna-Bertomeu report exposed a far bigger scandal that has implicated several religious orders.
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During colonial time, administration of several large temples was handed to "mutts", or local religious orders.
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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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But he has had little success, meeting strong resistance from the religious orders that control them.
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Bishops do not oversee religious orders the way they preside over parishes and their diocesan priests.
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There have been a series of reports into allegations of abuse by priests and members of religious orders.
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Christian religious orders in Nigeria try to look after these returnees but they are treated as social pariahs.
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VICE: Do you think people coming into religious orders and the priesthood are different than their older counterparts?
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Zurbarán had to subsist ad hoc, often on commissions from religious orders that tethered him to pious subjects.
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It also said that it had received limited cooperation from the religious orders who had run the home.
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But the many Hindu religious orders are not hierarchical like those of Roman Catholicism, which has a pope.
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The religious orders that ran the laundries have neither contributed money for compensation nor admitted to any human rights violations.
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As far back as the 1990s, members of religious orders prepared private reports on the issue for top Vatican officials.
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The priest he was accusing happened to be an Augustinian, one of dozens of religious orders in the Catholic clergy.
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Nine in 10 Catholic religious orders asked at least one person to delay his or her application because of student loans and 70 percent have turned away at least one person because of student debt, according to a 2013 study by the National Religious Vocation Conference, an organization that studies religious orders in the U.S. Some religious orders provide stipends - typically $15,000 to $20,000 - to prospective members pay off student loan debt if the orders can afford it, said Paul Bednarczyk, the National Religious Vocation Conference's executive director.
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Vocations to the priesthood have fallen to a trickle, and the social power wielded by religious orders is a fading memory.
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As teachers, missionaries and founders of religious orders, the six all helped make francophone North America into a very devout place.
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Francis had promised to establish the panel in May in a meeting with an assembly of leaders of women's religious orders.
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Here's an examination of the bankruptcy filings of the Boy Scouts, 23 US Catholic dioceses and religious orders and USA Gymnastics.
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In "Nuns of the Battlefield," Ellen Ryan Jolly ably documents the names of religious orders, their members, native countries and missions.
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In Pennsylvania, a grand jury report highlighted abuses by members of religious orders and found sloppy record-keeping about order members.
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Across the United States, Catholic districts and religious orders have paid tens of millions of dollars to settle lawsuits brought by victims.
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It is said that the individual dioceses, various Catholic religious orders and the Vatican in aggregate comprise of the world's largest land holders.
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The speed-dating session — yes, it was called exactly that — put 17 women into rotating conversations with sisters from a dozen religious orders.
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There is also the issue of priests from Catholic religious orders, which have also been inconsistent in revealing alleged abusers in their membership.
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Delsol: Well, traditionally, there's been same-sex love in religious orders and samurai orders, so this has been in Japanese culture a long time.
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More than 140 religious orders and Roman Catholic dioceses have released similar lists, and more than 100 of those have been updated since Pennsylvania's.
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Widely known as "the Saint of Calcutta," she founded religious orders of women and men that serve the poor in more than 230 countries.
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Parents have always found raising children to entail a great deal of work, enlisting relatives and servants — sometimes handing offspring over to religious orders.
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This year, two "brothers", lay men who are not ordained, are being allowed to vote in their capacity as superiors general of their religious orders.
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The Vatican is holding an unprecedented meeting of senior bishops from around the world, experts and heads of male and female religious orders on Feb.
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The four-day conference is bringing together presidents of national Roman Catholic bishops conferences, Vatican officials, experts and heads of male and female religious orders.
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The CARA survey of U.S. religious orders was conducted from January-May and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.55 percentage points.
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The program considers only cases of abuse committed by archdiocesan priests and deacons, not members of religious orders or lay people working in the archdiocese.
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The investigation was also limited to a review of diocesan files and did not include files kept by religious orders, like the Jesuits or Dominicans.
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Tellingly, though, he wants the government inquiry into the homes to look at "society generally" rather than focus on the religious orders that ran them.
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He has summoned heads of some 110 national Catholic bishops' conferences and dozens of experts and leaders of religious orders to the Vatican on Feb.
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Australia&aposs Catholic bishops and leaders of its religious orders on Wednesday committed to signing on to the 3.8 billion Australian dollar ($2.9 billion) national plan.
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This year, though, two men who are not ordained but are the superiors general of their respective religious orders have been granted the right to vote.
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In all, 503 US Catholic dioceses and religious orders have filed for bankruptcy protection during the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, according to BishopAccountability.
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"It's coming out piecemeal," said Father Mark Padrez, president of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, an association of religious orders in the United States.
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As in many countries, the collapse in the prestige of the priesthood and of religious orders has been much more dramatic than the decline of belief itself.
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Details: "Instead of the perpetrators, the victims were regulated and silence imposed on them," Marx told an audience of 190 cardinals, bishops and heads of religious orders.
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At least 15 other U.S. Catholic districts and religious orders have been driven to seek Chapter 11 protection by a sex abuse scandal that erupted in 2002.
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Pope Francis has summoned the heads of some 110 national Catholic bishops' conferences and dozens of experts and leaders of religious orders to the Vatican on Feb.
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The country's legal code offers a notably narrow selection of divorce-worthy faults, among them cruelty, incurable leprosy and renunciation of the world by entering religious orders.
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The Catholic Church has paid over $22 billion to victims across the United States, and 2000 dioceses and religious orders have filed for bankruptcy as a result.
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The new government also expelled most foreigners from China, decapitating the Catholic Church, which had relied on foreigners to run its schools, orphanages, seminaries and religious orders.
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At a conference in Pakistan recently, Sister Rose Pacatte, who is based in Los Angeles, spoke to leaders of women's religious orders on how to prevent abuse.
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The meeting itself included the presidents of many of the world's bishops' conferences, men's and women's religious orders and powerful cardinals from Francis' committee of top advisers.
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The unprecedented four-day meeting, starting on Thursday, brings together presidents of national Roman Catholic bishops conferences, Vatican officials, experts and heads of male and female religious orders.
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More than half of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics are women and the membership of female religious orders is about three times larger than that of male orders.
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In November, the International Union of Superiors General, the organization representing the world's Catholic women's religious orders, said a "culture of silence and secrecy" was partly to blame.
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These programs did not offer compensation to victims abused by priests working for religious orders, so many more victims may reach out to report abuse through the hotline.
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After much wrangling, some 18 Catholic religious orders agreed to contribute $138 million to the compensation fund, then estimated at $270 million, in return for indemnification against lawsuits.
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It was one of more than a dozen homes throughout Ireland that were often run by Catholic religious orders, but were funded and supposedly regulated by the government.
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" Viganò, who called for "homosexual behavior" to be denounced, blamed the church's sexual abuse crisis on "homosexual networks which are now widespread in many dioceses, seminaries, religious orders, etc.
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The charges against Pell come after a special police task-force was created in 2013 to investigate complaints of abuse by Catholic clergy and other religious orders and institutions.
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Two "brothers" - lay men who are not ordained - voted in their capacity as superiors general of their religious orders but an American nun with the same rank could not.
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The group documented cases of abuse by members of religious orders that have a global presence in 172 countries; it did not document cases of abuse in 172 countries.
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More than 20 Catholic dioceses and religious orders in the United States, including the San Diego diocese, have filed for bankruptcy over the past 15 years, according to BishopAccountability.org.
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The charges against Pell came after a special police task-force was created in 2013 to investigate complaints of abuse by Catholic clergy and other religious orders and institutions.
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And under Francis' predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, he had helped lead the Vatican office that oversees the roughly one million men and women in religious orders around the world.
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At its peak in the 1930s, the American orphanage system included more than 1,600 institutions, partly supported with public funding but usually run by religious orders, including the Catholic Church.
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The New York list did not include the assignment histories of the priests, the number of victims or names of clergy from other religious orders who worked in the archdiocese.
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Why it matters: The rare statement from the leaders of Major Superiors of Religious Orders and Congregations comes ahead of a Vatican summit on clerical sex abuse that begins Thursday.
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"Cantor" and "rabbi" are perhaps de rigueur, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that "sister" was offered as well, implying some ecumenism among the members of women's religious orders.
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But as we see the journey of some of the novitiates and nuns who leave, we get a deeper understanding of why women join religious orders, and why they leave.
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Barbara Dorris, a director at SNAP, criticized aspects of both New York programs, however, for not covering Catholic clergy in the city who belong to religious orders, such as Jesuits.
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More than 85033 clergy members who have been accused of child sexual abuse were not included on lists released by their dioceses and religious orders, The Associated Press reported Friday.
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"There is corruption in the Vatican but I am at peace," he told leaders of religious orders he met last November in the Vatican, according to a transcript published on Thursday.
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They cite figures showing that more than half of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics are women and that membership of female religious orders is about three times larger than male orders.
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The disclosure is just the latest reported in recent weeks by dioceses and religious orders across the country as law enforcement officials examine the church's response to an epidemic of abuse.
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The group had its beginnings in the 153s during South Africa's apartheid, when churches and religious orders called for the companies they invested in to stop doing business with the racist regime.
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"Faced with the scourge of sexual abuse committed by men of the Church against minors, I wanted to reach out to you," Francis told the assembled bishops and heads of religious orders.
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He and eight others, mostly in religious orders, one his priest-brother Philip, made a blaze there of 378 stolen files of young men about to be drafted to fight in Vietnam.
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Francis is a Jesuit, and like many members of Catholic religious orders, he tends to view the institutional church, with its parishes and dioceses and settled ways, as an obstacle to reform.
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More than 140 religious orders and Roman Catholic dioceses have released similar lists, and more than 100 of those have been updated since Pennsylvania's, according to the AP. View the discussion thread.
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New legislation in 1810 decreed that the collections of male religious orders, which had been recently dissolved, be stored in Seville's Alcázar (the royal palace), which is where the Murillo canvases went.
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The disclosures joined a flood of lists released in recent months by Catholic dioceses and religious orders across the country in response to the sex abuse scandal that has engulfed the church.
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The pope's comments were made during an assembly of leaders of women's religious orders and were consistent with his style: a seemingly off-the-cuff remark that opened a broad horizon of possibilities.
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"I will make absolutely certain religious orders like the Little Sisters of Poor are not bullied by the federal government because of their religious beliefs," he said a month before the 2016 election.
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" As a candidate, Mr. Trump promised that he would "make absolutely certain religious orders like the Little Sisters of the Poor are not bullied by the federal government because of their religious beliefs.
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Originally associated with different religious orders (the Augustinians, the Dominicans and the Oratorians), these three libraries, now run by the state, retain some of the unique spirit of the clerics who established them.
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In the 1990s, as the child sex abuse crisis was starting to emerge in the United States, leaders of women's religious orders wrote several reports calling attention to cases of priests abusing nuns.
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Alazraki, who was applauded at the end of her speech, also spoke of cases of corruption where religious orders and Church officials hid abuse because "money, compensation, gifts" or other illegal or unethical activity.
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Their report exposed a scandal implicating several religious orders as well as evidence that the Chilean church hierarchy systematically covered up or minimized abuse, including pressuring church investigators to discredit those making abuse accusations.
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Other bankruptcies across the country The Buffalo filing brings to about two dozen the number of US Catholic dioceses and religious orders that have filed for bankruptcy in the face of sexual abuse lawsuits.
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The report, by the Minnesota-based law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates, names priests, deacons, nuns, and other religious figures associated with the five Roman Catholic dioceses in New Jersey — including members of religious orders.
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Mr. Schmitt also issued "concrete recommendations" for the church, including that dioceses maintain records for priests in religious orders and that the church's independent review boards, which assess sex abuse allegations, comprise only lay people.
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The reason: The priest in question happened to be an Augustinian — one of dozens of religious orders that are overseen not by bishops, but by religious superiors in regions around the country and in Rome.
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In many cases, the nuns, who take vows of poverty, receive no pay because they are members of female religious orders and are sent to the residences of male Church officials as part of their assignments.
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The list of clergy members joins a flood of names that have poured from dioceses and religious orders across the country in recent months as the church grapples with a scandal over its handling of abuse.
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Word of the Day adjective: of or associated with a church (especially a Christian church) noun: a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders _________ The word ecclesiastic has appeared in one article on nytimes.
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Attention was drawn to the issue of women's rights by the synod's own rules, under which two non-ordained monks who lead religious orders were permitted to vote, while a nun with a similar role was not.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland pleaded with religious orders on Wednesday to reveal where decades-old remains of all babies who died in their care are buried, after an official inquiry found they provided remarkably little evidence about their deaths.
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Second, President Trump is no Henry II. Thomas Becket had been King Henry II's lord chancellor, but was technically in religious orders, so Henry got him promoted as archbishop of Canterbury, the highest church office in the land.
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She filed a complaint relating to the 12 years she had spent in an Irish "industrial school," one of a now-defunct network of state-funded orphanages and reformatories run by religious orders on behalf of the state.
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"I will make absolutely certain religious orders like the Little Sisters of Poor are not bullied by the federal government because of their religious beliefs," he said in October in a letter to leaders of Roman Catholic organizations.
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He spoke two months before a summit on the sexual abuse crisis that will be attended by the heads of some 110 national Catholic bishops' conferences and dozens of experts and leaders of religious orders in the Vatican.
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In November, the organization representing the world's Catholic women's religious orders, the International Union of Superiors General, publicly denounced the "culture of silence and secrecy" that contributed to abuse, and urged nuns to report abuse to law enforcement.
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Victims and advocacy groups say their accusations are often mishandled because they are caught between separate institutions within the church: The dioceses say it is not their responsibility to investigate, and religious orders fail to handle the claims.
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Magistrates in both the Vatican and Italy found that the bank, which is supposed to serve Vatican employees, Church officials and religious orders of priests and nuns, had been used by outsiders to either launder money or evade taxes.
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While Scicluna was sent to Chile to hear testimony in the Barros case, during his visit Catholics who say they were abused by members of other religious orders came forward and asked him to investigate their cases as well.
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This era was one of religious ferment, led by the so-called Observants (also known as the Zealots), who advocated a return to the strict observance of the rules of religious orders and their vows of austerity and poverty.
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Ending Clerical Abuse, which documented cases of abuse by members of religious orders that have a global presence in 21969 countries, also called on the church to publicly identify abusive clerics, and to prosecute complicit bishops in church tribunals.
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He was serving as the second-highest official in the Vatican office that dealt with priests, brothers and nuns in religious orders as the Vatican conducted two investigations of American nuns over accusations that they had strayed from doctrine.
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The archdiocese, one of 260 U.S. Catholic districts and religious orders driven to seek Chapter 13 protection by the church's sex abuse scandal, said its plan would mark the second-largest such bankruptcy settlement of pedophile priest claims in America.
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This time, the question came from the heads of women's religious orders, who met with Francis at the Vatican on Thursday and pressed him for concrete ways in which women might play a larger role in leading the Catholic Church.
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But as we witness the journey of some of the novices and nuns who leave, we also get a deeper understanding of why women join religious orders in the first place, and what ultimately motivates them to stay or go.
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But with a location inspired by Ireland's infamous Magdalene laundries — where, for more than two centuries, religious orders imprisoned so-called fallen women and used them as virtual slaves — this smart but uneven horror movie has little interest in fun.
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A Vatican statement said the congregation for religious orders had issued a decree naming a commissioner to take over the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a conservative movement that has about 20,000 members and chapters throughout South America and the United States.
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The San Jose Diocese said on Wednesday most of the discrepancies it identified were priests who were in Santa Clara County on assignments from religious orders or dioceses other than the bishop of San Jose or the Archbishop of San Francisco.
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In an interview, William Kunkel, the Archdiocese of Chicago's general counsel, and Leah McCluskey, its director of child abuse investigations, said the archdiocese reports every accusation to state attorney's offices and follows up on allegations against priests from religious orders.
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Multiple non-profits, including the Boy Scouts and USA Gymnastics as well as more than 20 Catholic dioceses and religious orders, have either filed for bankruptcy or are considering doing so in order to head off lawsuits alleging sexual abuse within their organizations.
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"The exemption does not just apply to churches, it applies to religious orders, and if my clients just stuck to their knitting and not help the elderly poor, they could qualify," Noel Francisco, one of the lawyers representing the petitioners, said Wednesday.
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In November, the International Union of Superiors General, or U.I.S.G., the organization representing the world's female Catholic religious orders, published an extraordinary statement that called on women religious who have suffered abuse to come forward and report it to church and state authorities.
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Three of these allegations were substantiated, seven were unsubstantiated, three were unable to be proven, six were still under investigation, two were referred to religious orders, two involved unknown clerics, and three were incidents of boundary violations but not sexual abuse, according to the report.
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A letter from the Vatican&aposs office of religious orders acknowledged it had instructed Luis Figari to stay away from the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae community and required him to seek permission before leaving Rome, but said it never impeded his return to face charges.
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For many who served in religious orders — and Maura is a shining example — this new understanding of the Gospel meant siding with revolution against dictatorship, even at the risk of sharing the fate of a God of the poor who had died on the cross.
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The four-day meeting, which begins on Thursday, will bring together 190 participants, including 114 presidents of bishops' conferences or their delegates, representatives from 14 Eastern churches in communion with Rome, female and male leaders of religious orders and the chiefs of several Vatican congregations.
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At an audience in May 2016, Francis was asked by one of the 900 leaders of female religious orders and congregations who form part of the International Union of Superiors General why the organization was not given a bigger say in the operation of the church.
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Through countless lectures and more than 50 books, she has developed a worldwide following for highlighting the role of women in religious orders, for calling on the church to change and reconnect with the faithful, and for providing a model of spiritual leadership focused on social justice.
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To date, according to the Global Catholic Climate Movement, dozens of Catholic institutions have divested from fossil fuels, including Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of relief organizations; Catholic banks with more than 7 billion euros, or $8.3 billion, on their balance sheets; archdioceses; religious orders; and lay movements.
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On October 6th he will invite a gathering of bishops, men and women from religious orders, indigenous people and secular experts to think boldly about a remote but ecologically sensitive corner of the Earth: the endangered rain-forests which cover swathes of Brazil and eight other countries.
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The umbrella organization of Catholic religious orders in the U.S. is suggesting its members consider voluntarily identifying priests accused of sexual abuse, opening up what could be a major new chapter in the Catholic Church's long-running abuse and cover-up saga, The Associated Press has learned.
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How the money was spent Called the "Report on the Implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People," the 74-page document is based on statistics provided by religious orders, the country's 197 Catholic dioceses and information obtained by an outside auditor, StoneBridge BusinessPartners.
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VATICAN CITY – A new survey has found that the majority of U.S. Catholic religious orders believe women should be allowed to serve as ordained deacons, lending support to an issue currently under study at the Vatican amid pressure for women to be given greater roles in the church.
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Francis did, however, authorize the creation of a commission to study the role of women deacons in the early church in 2016, responding to a request from the International Union of Superior&aposs General, the Rome-based association representing the leadership of the world&aposs women&aposs religious orders.
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Other groups opposed to the SEC moves — ranging from consumer groups to pension funds to religious orders of nuns managing funds to pay for their older members — spoke out against changes affecting proxy advisory firms they use to make decisions on how to vote at annual shareholder meetings.
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With amusement or pathos, engaging in any aspect of this sort of introspection serves as a memento mori: an exercise in remembering one's own death undertaken less flamboyantly than in the practices inaugurated by ancient religious orders — sleeping in coffins or displaying skulls on the mantel — yet still highly effective.
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The list of religious objectors includes churches and religious orders (which from the beginning have been completely exempt from the mandate anyway); nonprofit organizations; a "closely held for-profit entity;" a "for-profit entity that is not closely held" (including publicly traded companies); and "any other nongovernmental employer" along with institutions of higher education.
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But when a priest or brother in a religious order is accused of abuse, victims and advocacy groups say their accusations are often mishandled because they are caught between separate institutions within the church: the dioceses that say it is not their responsibility to investigate, and religious orders that then fail to handle the claims.
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