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WikiLeaks film shifts focus after Julian Assange won't share info
When director Alex Gibney began work on his documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," he thought he would be telling the story of a charismatic, silver-haired free speech advocate named Julian Assange, who had exposed dark corners of...
Tags: Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (movie), Arts and Culture, Parties and Movements, Movies, WikiLeaks
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Uganda priest ostracized for publicizing sexual abuse
KAMPALA, Uganda — He is a celebrity across eastern and central Africa, a gospel music star known to many as the "Dancing Priest." But for years he also was a keeper of painful secrets — his own and many others'. In going public, Anthony...
Tags: BBC, Christianity, Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Africa, Entertainment
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Love to attend your wedding, but God said no
It's not surprising that the leading Roman Catholic churchman in Rhode Island is disappointed that the state has legalized same-sex marriage. But in reacting to what he called “this immoral and unnecessary proposition,” Bishop Thomas J....
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Christianity, Family, Gays and Lesbians, Weddings
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Pope wants church to 'act decisively' on abuse
ROME -- Pope Francis has called on the Roman Catholic Church to "act decisively" to end the sexual abuse of minors by priests, the Vatican said Friday. At a meeting with the head of the Vatican's doctrinal department, Archbishop Gerhard Mueller, Francis...
Tags: John Paul II, Francis I, Flu, Christianity, Vatican City
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Victim of priest molestation urges Pope Francis to defrock Mahony
L.A. NOWA man who will receive part of a $10-million settlement from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for abuse by a former priest on Thursday called on the new pope to punish church leaders who had covered up molestation of children....... -
Pope Francis delivers stern message to cardinals at Sistine Chapel
VATICAN CITY -- In his first mass as head of the Roman Catholic church, Pope Francis delivered a stern homily in the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals had elected him as the 266th pope a day earlier. Stressing the power of prayer, Francis told the...
Tags: Benedict XVI, Christianity, Jesus Christ, Argentina, College of Cardinals
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Letters: The next pope
Re "What we need in a pope," Opinion, March 3 The several different opinions by Roman Catholics collected and published by The Times on the hoped-for qualities of the next pope encompass a wide spectrum. But reading these short Op-Ed pieces, one...
Tags: Benedict XVI, AIDS, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism
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Vatican murmurs about Mahony's attendance at papal conclave
ROME -- A senior Vatican official called Cardinal Roger Mahony's participation in the selection of the next pope "troubling," but said there was no formal procedure to stop the retired Los Angeles archbishop from attending the conclave next month. The...
Tags: Benedict XVI, Vatican City, Religion and Belief, Roger M. Mahony, Rome (Italy)
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Letters: What the pope knew, and did
Re "Pope steps down," and "After Benedict XVI," Editorial, Feb. 12 My guess, or hope, is that underlying the numerous circumstances prompting Pope Benedict XVI's decision to step down is the crushing moral and spiritual weight of presiding over a church...Tags: Christianity, HIV, Religion and Belief, Abusive Behavior, Roman Catholicism
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After Benedict XVI
In nearly eight years as pope, Benedict XVI embraced a traditionalist — and to many critics, authoritarian — view of both the papacy and of church teaching. So it's ironic that he will be remembered for his revolutionary decision to relinquish...
Tags: Benedict XVI, Same-Sex Marriage, Christianity, Religious Leaders, Vatican City
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A priest's confession, a man's relief
There is something about me that is happier when accompanied by a small boy.... Perhaps besides the sexual element, the child in me wants a playmate. — Father Robert Van Handel :: Damian Eckert turned on the computer in his in-laws' home...
Tags: Rentals, Seminaries, Crime, Law and Justice, Religious Education, Religion and Belief
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We can do more to protect children
In middle school, my daughter had a friend who'd spent most of her life in foster care. During the next few years, the girl would pass through almost a dozen foster families, group homes and probation camps. She had a habit of running away when she felt...
Tags: Social Services, Robert Pimentel, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning, Religion and Belief
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