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Families of clergy abuse victims' new legal precedent paves way for litigation

A Melbourne lawyer says "secondary abuse victims" should seek legal advice as a lawsuit continues in the Victorian Supreme Court.

ABC News

Unsanctioned Saints to help with love and crime grow in popularity in Mexico and the U.S.

Some alienated Latinos are turning to unsanctioned Saints for spiritual guidance around love, crime, and money.

Axios

Catholic Church suffers setback as court rules lawsuit brought by Pell accuser's father can continue

Victoria's Supreme Court rules a civil case brought by the father of former choirboy against the Catholic Church and Cardinal George Pell can continue.

ABC News

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Families of child abuse victims can sue Catholic Church, court rules

The father's case is believed to be the first to test the whether the Legal Identity of Defendants Act, brought in to abolish the defence, applies to secondary victims including family members.

Newcastle Herald

Analysis-Pope visit to Italian city spotlights need for rules on ex-pontiffs

Pope Francis has quashed rumours that he plans to resign anytime soon but his planned visit next weekend to the Italian city of L'Aquila will underscore the Catholic Church's need to regulate the status of pontiffs who step down instead of ruling for life.

Reuters

Nicaraguan police detained a bishop and other priests in a pre-dawn raid

President Daniel Ortega's government has moved systematically against voices of dissent, arresting many opposition leaders last year.

WEKU

Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet denies sexual assault allegations

Ouellet, a prominent figure in the Catholic Church, ‘firmly’ denies accusation he sexually assaulted a woman in Quebec.

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Catholic Church slams Margaret Ferrier after former SNP MP attended Glasgow mass with Covid-19

The former SNP Rutherglen and Hamilton West representative sat through an entire mass and even gave a reading. Around 45 people were in attendance at the time. She went to a bar in Prestwick, South Ayrshire after attending the mass.

Glasgow Live

Papua New Guinea fails to end ‘evil’ of sorcery-related violence

Brutal torture and assault of women accused of witchcraft go unpunished while policies to tackle issue falter.

Al Jazeera

Nicaragua´s Catholic Church says priest detained as crackdown intensifies

A Nicaraguan Catholic priest from a northern parish was detained after celebrating Mass, the Church said, amid rising tensions between the church and the government of President Daniel Ortega.

Reuters

Commentary: Sunshine in the heartland

On Aug. 2, staid, conservative Kansas gave the United States one of the biggest jolts in an election season in which Democratic disaster and Republican ascension had been such an accepted fact that left-wing media’s denial of inevitability sounded more like prayer. President Joe Biden’s approval rating was lower than…

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EXPLAINER: Tension between Nicaragua and the Catholic Church

Nicaragua’s government recently shuttered seven radio stations belonging to the Catholic Church

The Independent UK

Nicaraguan police prohibit religious procession in capital

Nicaragua’s police are prohibiting a religious procession scheduled for Saturday in the capital, the latest sign of tensions between the government and the Roman Catholic Church

The Independent UK

Witnessing Pope Francis’s apology for abuses against my people

Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin reflects on the papal apology tour in Canada – and what ‘sorry’ means to survivors.

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Church says choirboy's father cannot sue

Lawyers for the Catholic Church have claimed an ex-choirboy's father cannot sue as he was not the primary victim of Cardinal George Pell's alleged sexual abuse.

ABC News

Catholic Church to rely on 'Ellis defence' in civil damages claim involving Cardinal George Pell

The Catholic Church is using a controversial legal tactic in a bid to be excused from a civil damages claim lodged in the Victorian Supreme Court involving Cardinal George Pell.

The Independent UK

Britney Spears criticises Catholic Church for not allowing her to have wedding there

“Isn’t church supposed to be open to all?,” the singer wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post.

Reuters

Hearing pain of Canada school survivors felt like slaps, pope says

Pope Francis said on Wednesday he felt the pain of survivors of Canada's residential school system "like slaps" and that the Catholic Church has to face up to its responsibility for institutions that abused children and tried to erase indigenous cultures.

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The Conversation

Pope Francis's visit to Canada was full of tensions — both from what was said and what wasn’t

Reactions to Pope Francis’s apology in Canada for harm perpetrated by members of the Catholic Church on children at Indian Residential Schools were far from unanimous.

Daily Record

Secular group slams Lanarkshire council over religious representative search

The National Secular Society says the role is outdated and 'runs counter to principles of equality'.

The Independent UK

Families attend memorial service 50 years on from Claudy bombings

Three car bombs detonated in the village on July 31, 1972, killing nine people.

The Independent UK

Service to mark 50 years since Claudy massacre

The attack in the Co Londonderry village was blamed on the Provisional IRA, although the group never claimed responsibility.

Benzinga

Holy Smokes! Meet The Nuns Who Grow Weed

Article by Marian Venini, originally published on El Planteo.

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: Pope makes a penitential pilgrimage to Canada

Pope Francis crisscrossed Canada this week delivering long overdue apologies to the country’s Indigenous groups for the decades of abuses and cultural destruction they suffered at Catholic Church-run residential schools.

WEKU

The pope visited Nunavut for the final apology of his Canadian tour

Pope Francis traveled to the edge of the Arctic to deliver an apology to the Inuit people for the "evil" of Canada's residential schools, wrapping up his week-long "penitential pilgrimage" to Canada.

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