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Second Irish bishop offers resignation
Catholic Priests are Predators DC9T.jpg A second Irish bishop has offered ... Moriarty, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, was auxiliary bishop in Dublin between 1991 and 2002. Last month ... , the resignation of Donal Murray, Bishop of Limerick, was accepted by the Pope. Murray was auxiliary Bishop ...
Two more bishops resign over child sex abuse
Catholic bishops have resigned in connection with the child sex abuse scandal that has severely damaged the Catholic Church in Ireland. On Christmas Eve, auxiliary Bishops of Dublin Eamon Walsh and Raymond Field announced that they had offered their resignations to Pope Benedict XVI. Four Irish bishops have ...
Bishop: fish on Friday helps fight climate change
fish.jpg A Dutch Roman Catholic bishop has called for the Catholic ... . Speaking on a Catholic current affairs programme on public service TV, Bishop Gerard de Korte said a meat-free day a week would make a huge contribution to cutting CO2 emissions. The Bishop of Groningen made ...
First Irish bishop goes after child abuse probe
kathedraal%20limerick.jpg The first bishop has resigned as a result of the child abuse scandal involving the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Limerick's Bishop Donal ... cases of child abuse by the Irish clergy for 30 years. Since 1982, Bishop Murray has been one ...
Sweden ordains first lesbian bishop
kerk stockholm.jpg Sweden has ordained its first lesbian bishop. Eva Brunne was ordained bishop of Stockholm by the archbishop of the Lutheran Church of Sweden ... and is in a registered partnership with another woman. (gay and lesbian marriage, lesbian bishops, Lutheran ...
British bishop bans holy water due to flu risk
holy water by jetheriot.jpg Britain's Bishop of Chelmsford has advised ... ". In a set of directives sent to priests in Essex County, the Bishop advised sending churchgoers with flu ... infections and 17 deaths, Europe's highest number of H1N1 fatalities. (british bishop bans holy water ...
Pope's decision is "disastrous", says Dutch bishop
, but 300,000 at most. Following his opposition to modernising the Roman Catholic church, Bishop Williamson was excommunicated in 1988, together with three other traditionalist bishops who had turned against reforms. The Pope ... of the guilt towards the Jews that rests on the shoulders of the German people. Bishop Van Luyn has called ...
Vatican urges corrupt African leaders to quit
060309-mugabe-zimbabwe-ANP-7272110.jpg Roman Catholic bishops have called ... African bishops, along with dozens of other bishops, also accused multinational companies in Africa of "crimes against humanity" and polluting the environment. The bishops say that & ...
Bishop Musabyimana declares himself innocent
became Bishop of the diocese of Shyogwe, had difficulty concealing his emotion when the registrar read out the passage of the indictment alleging the Bishop declared that the Tutsis were finished while ... for Christian solidarity, quoting the example of Bishop Misago, tried for genocide in Rwanda and finally ...
Pope deplores child abuse within Catholic Church
Catholics who have violated children's rights, a week before a meeting with Irish bishops over a sex abuse ... in the mainly Catholic country for three decades. Four Irish bishops have resigned and Pope Benedict has summoned Irish bishops to the Vatican for a meeting 15 – 16 February. Last month, an elite Jesuit ...
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