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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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