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Voice of the Faithful marks 20 years of keeping the faith, changing the Church with commemoration event
BOSTON, Mass., July 15, 2022―Voice of the Faithful commemorates 20 years of keeping the faith, changing the church on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, for an event aptly named “VOTF’s 20th Year Commemoration: 20 Years of Keeping the Faith, Changing the Church.” VOTF’s friends and supporters will gather to pray, learn, plan, and socialize as a […]
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Report: Catholic clergy's unquestioned -- and uneducated -- power spurs abuse / Religion News Service
(Paul J.) Schutz (of Santa Clara University) told Religion News Service that their aim was to understand how ‘structural clericalism operates in the church,’ comparing clericalism to the way structural racism shapes the lives of people of color. By Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service “A new report based on interviews with some 300 Catholic priests, […]
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In synod reports, U.S. Catholics call for women’s leadership, LGBTQ welcoming / National Catholic Reporter
Still, the estimated 650,000 synod participants represent a little more than 1% of the roughly 51 million Catholic adults in the United States. The diocesan reports indicate that about two-thirds of those who attended listening sessions were 55 or older, and that most of those participants were women. An overwhelming majority of synodal participants were also […]
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In the Vineyard: August 15, 2022
In the Vineyard :: August 15, 2022 :: Volume 22, Issue 15 National News VOTF Synod Report The culmination of our many Synod sessions January through May, distilled to the 10 pages the General Secretariat required, went to the Vatican last week. As promised, we sent it directly to the Secretariat to ensure that your voices would […]
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Voice of the Faithful Focus, Aug. 12, 2022
TOP STORIES Detroit Catholic bishop halts public ministry after accusation he sexually assaulted boy“A lawsuit filed this week alleges a Catholic bishop in Detroit who previously was a Vatican ambassador sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy 25 times decades ago in Massachusetts. According to the suit filed Monday (Aug. 1) in Boston, Archbishop Paul Fitzpatrick Russell, […]