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Episcopal Church Lifts
Ban on Gay Bishops

Deeper rift with conservatives looms

Jul 15, 09 5:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Leaders of the Episcopal Church voted overwhelmingly yesterday to allow the ordination of gay and lesbian bishops, risking further fissures with conservative parishes and the Anglican Communion. The new policy reverses a 2006 compromise that prohibited the consecration of homosexual clergy, in line with other Anglican churches. Episcopalians will vote... More »

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Episcopal Church • Anglican Church • Gene Robinson • Christian conservatives • Episcopalian • clergy • bishop • homosexual clergy • gay

OPINION

Anti-Abortion
'Extremists' Got
Nothing on Prez

Zealous Notre Dame protests will further
hurt their cause

May 17, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Randall Terry and other “Catholic extremists” will lead protests against President Obama’s speech at Notre Dame today—but their anti-abortion zealotry will only continue to hurt their cause, writes Frances Kissling in Salon. “The idea that anything goes in fighting abortion died” in the ‘90s when... More »

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ANALYSIS

Bishops Scorn Obama, but Pope Is a Fan

The Vatican takes
softer stance on
Notre Dame debate

May 16, 09 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - While conservative Catholics rage over President Obama's upcoming commencement speech at Notre Dame, one man has remained silent: the Holy Father. Indeed, American Catholic leaders and the Pope have staked out dramatically different positions from the Obama administration's, Amy Sullivan observes in Time. Yet the Vatican’s response to the... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • Notre Dame • bishop • Roman Catholic Church

 Third Woman: 
 Paraguay Prez 
 Fathered My Kid 

Paternity scandal grows, but so far no political fallout

Apr 23, 09 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The paternity scandal surrounding Paraguay’s president, a former bishop, has reached new heights: A third woman says he fathered her child, McClatchy reports. Fernando Lugo recently acknowledged paternity of a 2-year-old; soon after, another woman said he was her 6-year-old’s dad. She filed an official paternity claim yesterday,... More »

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children • president • Paraguay • father • abstinence • bishop • scandal • Fernando Lugo • paternity

(Newser) - The president of Paraguay admitted today to fathering a child with a 26-year-old woman while he was still a Roman Catholic bishop, the Daily Telegraph reports. Fernando Lugo, 57, left the church to pursue political office in December 2006; a son was born five months later, according to the paternity... More »

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sex scandal • Paraguay • bishop • Fernando Lugo • illegitimate child

Pope May Reshape US Church as Bishops Age Out

Many bishops nearing retirement as church faces big changes

Apr 5, 09 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - With many bishops nearing the age of required retirement, the Vatican has a chance to reinvent the US Catholic Church, moving beyond church sex scandals and adapting to a growing immigrant presence, reports the Los Angeles Times. Almost a third of 265 current US bishops must step down in the... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • United States • Vatican • retirement • resignation • Catholicism • bishop

(AP) - The Roman Catholic bishop whose diocese includes the University of Notre Dame says he will boycott President Obama's May 17 commencement speech at the school because of Obama's support for abortion rights and embryonic stem-cell research. John D'Arcy said today that Obama's recent decision to fund embryonic stem-cell research brought... More »

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abortion • stem cells • Vatican • Notre Dame • archdiocese • bishop • commencement speech • Roman Catholic Church • President Obama

 Holocaust Bishop Apologizes 


Feb 26, 09 3:59 PM CST
(AP) - A British bishop apologized today for remarks in which he denied the scale of the Holocaust and asserted that no Jews were gassed in concentration camps. "I can truthfully say that I regret having made such remarks," said Bishop Richard Williamson. He did not, however, say that his... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Holocaust • Vatican • Catholic • bishop • Richard Williamson

 Holocaust- 
 Denying Bish 
 Makes Fightin' Exit 

Bishop scuffles with newsman while complying with order to leave Argentina in Airport Face-Off

Feb 25, 09 6:55 AM CST
(Newser) - Holocaust-denying British bishop Richard Williamson made an angry exit from Argentina today, the BBC reports. The bishop brandished a fist at a reporter and briefly scuffled with him as he passed through the airport. Williamson, who was ordered to leave Argentina when officials there learned of his views, arrived in... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Holocaust • Argentina • airport • bishop • Society of St. Pius X • Richard Williamson

Pope's Bro to Merkel: Chill Out

Ratzinger says German leader's call for pontiff to clarify Holocaust stance is 'irrational'

Feb 4, 09 1:13 PM CST
(Newser) - The pope’s brother today criticized Angela Merkel for demanding that Benedict XVI restate his views on the Holocaust amid the controversy over a reinstated priest, the Times of London reports. “I always saw her as a rational woman,” Georg Ratzinger—himself a Catholic priest—said of the... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Angela Merkel • Holocaust • Vatican • racism • Nazi • Holy See • bishop • Richard Williamson • Georg Ratzinger

Pope Names Bishop Who Lauded 'Punishing' Katrina

Hurricane destroyed nightclubs, abortion clinic, notes pleased Austrian

Feb 2, 09 5:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Days after welcoming back to the church a bishop who denies the Holocaust existed, Pope Benedict has sparked controversy again for promoting a controversial Austrian ultra-conservative cleric. Gerhard Maria Wagner claims the Harry Potter series spreads satanism and that Hurricane Katrina was punishment for New Orleans' lax morals. More »

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Pope to Reinstate Bishop Who Denies Holocaust

Hardliner rejected Vatican reforms for being too tolerant of other faiths

Jan 23, 09 4:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI is planning to welcome four rebel bishops excommunicated by his predecessor back to the Catholic Church, reports the Times of London. The ultra-conservative bishops reject the liberal reforms of the Second Vatican Council. One of them, Richard Williamson, openly endorses the anti-semitic tract Protocols of the Elders ... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Holocaust • Judaism • excommunication • Catholic • bishop • anti-Semitism • Society of St. Pius X

Anglicans Open Path for
First Women Bishops

But deal provides loophole for traditionalists

Dec 30, 08 8:21 AM CST
(Newser) - The Church of England has drafted a plan to allow the first women bishops within 3 years, the Times of London reports. But there’s a catch—to appease traditionalists, parishes that won’t tolerate a woman can have their own “complementary” bishops. Still, members of this special class... More »

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Pressured Priest: We'll Have Nun
of Catwalks

'Miss Sister' beauty contest canceled

Aug 27, 08 4:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Italian priest's plans for a nun beauty pageant have been nixed by his higher-ups, the BBC reports. Father Antonio Rungi, who said the idea was to highlight the inner beauty of nuns and smash stereotypes of the sisters as old and dour, decided to draw a veil over the... More »

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Heckler Halts Gay Bishop's London Sermon

Episcopal rift over homosexuality roils upcoming conference

Jul 14, 08 10:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - He was uninvited to the Anglican Church's big, once-a-decade Lambeth Conference next week, but New Hampshire’s gay Episcopal bishop decided cheerfully to go anyway, to be a “constant and friendly reminder” of gays in the sect. Not so cheerful was the heckler who interrupted his sermon in London... More »

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US Clergy Tell Aussie Critic to Go Home

Bishop vows to keep slamming Vatican for sex abuse, celibacy

Jun 7, 08 6:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - On orders from the Vatican, a dozen top US bishops have asked their Australian colleague to cancel his American book tour, the Los Angeles Times reports. But Geoffrey Robinson, former auxiliary bishop of Sydney, vows to keep on promoting Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church, which blames... More »

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Australia • Catholic Church • Cardinal Roger M. Mahony • priest sex abuse • bishop • Roman Catholicism

Ex-Bishop Wins Paraguay's Presidency in Historic Vote

Ends 61 years of single-party rule

Apr 21, 08 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Opposition leader Fernando Lugo won Paraguay’s presidential election yesterday, ending 61 years of one-party rule, Reuters reports. With nearly all votes counted, the former bishop beat Paraguay’s first female presidential contender by 41% of the vote to 10%. “We've made history,” the center-leftist Lugo told a... More »

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Pope to Church: Pedophilia Was 'Badly Handled'

He urges bishops to 'foster healing' and work to improve trust

Apr 16, 08 7:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI had strong words for America's Roman Catholic bishops today, asserting that the clerical sexual molestation scandal had been "very badly handled" in many cases, the AP reports. "It is your God-given responsibility as pastors to bind up the wounds caused by every breach of trust,... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • religion • child molestation • pedophile • culture • clergy abuse scandal • clergy • Catholics • bishop • Roman Catholicism • Pope Benedict's US visit

Televangelist's Husband Admits Attacking Her

Founder of Global Destiny churches pleads guilty to assault

Mar 12, 08 2:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The husband of Pentecostal televangelist Juanita Bynum pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting her and was sentenced to three years probation. Thomas W. Weeks III, the founder of Global Destiny churches, admitted grabbing Bynum, throwing her down and kicking her in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel in August, the... More »

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Atlanta • probation • assault • bishop • Pentecostals • Thomas W. Weeks III • Juanita Bynum • Global Destiny • televangelist • pastor • Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

Ritual Daggers Bar Sikhs From Meeting Pope

Religion, Secret Service at impasse for April interfaith US gathering

Mar 6, 08 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Sikh leaders won’t attend a US interfaith meeting with Pope Benedict XVI next month because the Secret Service won’t let them wear ceremonial daggers, the AP reports. Kirpaans are required attire for the Eastern religion. “We cannot undermine the rights and freedoms of religion in the name... More »

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