Tag: Priests

Seeking Visibility, Pope’s Commission on Sex Abuse Gets a New Home

In moving from cramped offices to a palazzo, the organization is aiming for more visibility, and to be better able to welcome victims.

Vatican Repudiates ‘Doctrine of Discovery,’ Used as Justification for Colonization

Indigenous communities have long called on the Vatican rescind the concept, which had been used over the centuries to seize land from people in the Americas, Africa and elsewhere.

10 Years On, Pope Francis Faces Challenges From the Right and the Left

In an ideologically divided Roman Catholic Church, the right has accused him of going too far and the left of not going far enough.

Man Arrested in Killing of Auxiliary Bishop Had Worked at His House

David G. O’Connell, a Roman Catholic bishop, was shot in his home in Hacienda Heights, Calif., on Saturday. The authorities said the man in custody was the husband of the bishop’s housekeeper.