Category: Newswatch

CATHOLIC NEWSWATCH: “U.S. bishops punt resolution encouraging Holy See to release McCarrick documents” – CNA

Abuse Scandals, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic News, Headlines, McCarrick Scandal, Newswatch, Pope Francis, USCCB, Vatican
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“On the last day of their fall meeting, the U.S. bishops’ conference voted down a resolution that would have ‘encouraged’ the Holy See to release all documents on the allegations of sexual misconduct against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. … Cardinal William Levada, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said he did not support the resolution because it would only further the divide between the USCCB and the Vatican. He seconded Cardinal Tobin’s suggestion that the bishops instead release a statement of support of the Vatican investigation. …”

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CATHOLIC NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Congressional Report Documents ‘Dire Human Rights Situation’ in China” – CNA

Catholic, Catholic News, China, Headlines, International, Newswatch
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The Catholic News Agency (CNA) reports on a new congressional report raising the alarm over a dire, and worsening, human rights situation in mainland China under the domination of the Communist Party of China (CCP):

“A new congressional report slams China’s Communist Party [CCP] for increasing its repressive control over many aspects of Chinese society, and … numerous extreme and unprecedented human rights violations that may constitute crimes against humanity. The report … ‘highlights the dire human rights situation inside China and the continued downward trajectory by virtually China Mapevery measure, since Xi Jinping’ came to power, first as the Communist Party’s general secretary and now as its president. … the report was … by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China … created in 2000 to monitor human rights and rule of law developments in China.  … “

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CATHOLIC NEWSWATCH: “New sexual abuse allegations leveled against Cardinal McCarrick” – CNA

Abuse Scandals, Catholic, Catholic News, Headlines, Homosexuals, McCarrick Scandal, Newswatch, Sex Abuse
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“… [It was]  reported July 19 … [that a Virginia man] alleg[es in a police report that] … [now-Cardinal Theodore] McCarrick began sexually abusing him in 1969, when the priest was 39[, a friend of the family,] and the man, “James,” … was 11 …. [A month earlier,] the Archdiocese of New York announced … an investigation into a different allegation that McCarrick had sexually abused a teenager [finding] the claim ‘credible and substantiated.’ The Vatican … prohibited McCarrick, 88, from public ministry. … [M]edia reports have detailed additional allegations … that McCarrick sexually abused, assaulted, or coerced seminarians and young priests … as a bishop. The Diocese of Metuchen and Archdiocese of Newark disclosed … reports that McCarrick engaged in sexual misconduct with adults, and reached legal and financial settlements in two cases. The cardinal is prohibited from contact with minors in the Archdiocese of Washington …”

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NEWSLINK: “NO #abortion extremist #PaulEhrlich at the #Vatican”

Abortion, Catholic, Catholic News, Human Rights, Newswatch, Respect Life
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“The Vatican has invited Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the undisputed father of the modern, pro-abortion population control movement to present a paper at an upcoming Vatican-run conference. … The Stanford biologist champions sex-selective abortion as well as mass forced sterilization as legitimate methods to curb population growth. Ehrlich has also openly defended forced abortion for population control, writing that ‘compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.’ …”

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NEWSWATCH: “Pope Francis visits 20 women rescued from prostitution” – NewsVa

Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Newswatch, Prositution, Slavery
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Pope Francis visited a refugee centre … as part of his ‘Friday of Mercy’ gestures during this Jubilee Year of Mercy. … Pope Francis met 20 women rescued from the sex trade … trafficked from … Romania, Albania, Nigeria, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Italy. … victims of severe physical abuse … another reminder of the need to fight against human trafficking, which the Pope has described as ‘a crime against humanity’ …. ‘an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ.’

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