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Jul 24

Pope Francis visits Canada to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses

By Nicole Winfield, Rob Gillies, Peter Smith, Associated Press

Aboard the papal plane, Francis told reporters this was a “penitential voyage” and he urged prayers in particular for elderly people and grandparents.

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Jun 29

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News Wrap: Death toll rises to 53 in Texas after migrants were found in abandoned truck

In our news wrap Wednesday, the death toll rose to 53 in San Antonio, Texas, after migrants were found in an abandoned truck, the Supreme Court allows an Army veteran to sue Texas over claim that burn pits in Iraq…

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Jun 07

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Vatican documents show secret back channel between Pope Pius XII and Hitler

A series of recently opened Vatican archives are shedding new light on the relationship between Pope Pius XII and Hitler as he led Nazi Germany during World War II. A new book takes a deeper look at these revelations. Historian…

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Apr 19

New Jersey Catholic diocese agrees to $87.5 million deal to settle sex abuse suits

By Mike Catalini, Associated Press

A Catholic diocese in New Jersey has agreed to pay $87.5 million to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements involving the Catholic church in the United States.

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Feb 17

The Vatican trial exposes the Holy See’s inner workings as a new spy story takes center stage

By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

The Vatican’s big fraud and extortion trial is exposing some unseemly realities of how the Holy See operates.

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Feb 15

How Galileo’s groundbreaking works got banned

By Dr. Howard Markel

Born on this day 458 years ago, Galileo refused to be silent about how the solar system worked.

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Feb 08

Pope Benedict XVI denies wrongdoing after clergy sex abuse report, but expresses ‘profound shame’

By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

Retired Pope Benedict XVI is asking forgiveness for any “grievous faults” in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases.

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Jan 20

Pope Benedict XVI implicated in report on sexual abuse in German diocese

By Geir Moulson, Associated Press

A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany's Munich diocese has faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI's handling of cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Oct 05

330,000 children victims of church sex abuse, French report finds

By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, according to a report released Tuesday that represents the country's first major accounting of the worldwide phenomenon.

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Sep 07

Vatican won’t say if women can vote in 2023 church meeting

By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

For years, women activists and even nuns have pressed to be able to vote at Synod of Bishops meetings, which gather the Catholic hierarchy to Rome to discuss pressing issues facing the 1.3-billion strong Catholic Church.

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