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Sr. Carol Zinn addresses the Leadership Conference of Women Religious during its annual assembly in Orlando, Fla., last August Zinn was one of four LCWR leaders who recently met with Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Vatican’s doctrine chief blasts U.S. nuns for disobedience

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Catholic nuns in the United States have been thumbing their nose at Rome’s demands to toe the doctrinal line and they need to obey or face serious consequences, the Vatican’s enforcer of orthodoxy said in a surprisingly tough talk to women representing most American sisters.

Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See representative to U.N. agencies in Geneva, told the Committee Against Torture May 6 that the sexual abuse of children "is a worldwide plague and scourge" that the Vatican, national bishops' conferences, religious orders and individual dioceses have worked seriously to eliminate within the Catholic Church.

Vatican official says church making progress in stopping sexual abuse

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VATICAN CITY - Appearing before a U.N. committee monitoring adherence to an international treaty designed to fight torture, a Vatican official insisted that, over the past 10 years, the Catholic Church has "in a systematic, constructive and effective way," worked to prevent clerical sexual abuse of minors and assist victims.

Vatican statistics report Church growth remains steady worldwide

Vatican statistics report Church growth remains steady worldwide

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VATICAN CITY - The number of Catholics in the world and the number of priests, permanent deacons and religious men all increased in 2012, while the number of women in religious orders continued to decline, according to Vatican statistics.

Orthodox Metropolitan Emmanuel of France is the coordinator of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the meetings with Pope Francis May 25. Metropolitan Emmanuel is pictured in a March 18 photo.

Hopes rise that Pope, patriarch meeting renews Christian unity effort

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ROME - The Orthodox bishop who is co-ordinating the upcoming pilgrimage to Jerusalem by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople said he hopes the patriarch's May 25 meeting with Pope Francis will give new impetus to efforts for Christian unity.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley said the Catholic Church has failed to recognize the worldwide reach of clerical abuse.

‘So much denial’ on sexual abuse crisis, says Cardinal O'Malley

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VATICAN CITY - The Roman Catholic Church has failed to recognize the worldwide reach of clerical sexual abuse, said Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley.

Social climbers should head for hills, not the Church, for ambitions

Social climbers should head for hills, not the Church, for ambitions

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VATICAN CITY - The Catholic Church is no place for "climbers" who want to reach the heights of prestige, power and profit, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis

Pope: New attitude of 'evangelical service' must take hold at Vatican

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis told his new economic oversight council that it must be "courageous and determined" in its critical role of helping the Church not waver from its real mission of bringing the Gospel to the world and helping those most in need.

Members of the U.S.-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP hold portraits of themselves as youths as they address the media during a protest outside St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland in this picture dated Sept. 15 2010. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which represents 18,000 victims, said that hundreds of children and adults were still being “sexually violated, tortured and assaulted” by Catholic priests.

Don’t equate sexual abuse of minors with torture, Vatican tells UN

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VATICAN CITY - As Vatican representatives prepare to testify before a United Nations inquiry into torture next week, a senior official warned investigators that it would be “deceptive” to link torture with the pedophilia scandals that have swept the Catholic Church.

Youths take part in a soccer clinic on the field. Pope Francis urged professional athletes to always be sportsmanlike on and off the field because so many people, especially kids, look up to them

Fun, not money should rule sports, says Pope Francis

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VATICAN CITY - Soccer-fan Pope Francis urged professional athletes to always be sportsmanlike on and off the field because so many people, especially kids, look up to them.

Cardinal Gerald Lacroix of Quebec is one of three cardinals appointed by Pope Francis to try to resolve a long-standing dispute with a Peruvian university and see if it would be possible to restore the university's designation as "pontifical" and "Catholic."

Pope asks cardinals to try to resolve conflict with Peruvian university

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has appointed three cardinals, including Cardinal Gerald Lacroix of Quebec, to try to resolve a long-standing dispute with a Peruvian university and see if it would be possible to restore the university's designation as "pontifical" and "Catholic."

Vatican says bureaucratic reforms won’t happen until 2015

Vatican says bureaucratic reforms won’t happen until 2015

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis and his council of eight cardinals are unlikely to complete a radical shakeup of the Holy See’s administration, or Curia, before 2015, the Vatican said Tuesday (April 29).

Rome official: Retired pope to attend canonizations; spokesman cautious

Rome official: Retired pope to attend canonizations; spokesman cautious

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VATICAN CITY - Retired Pope Benedict XVI is expected to attend the canonization of Blesseds John XXIII and John Paul II April 27, said Msgr. Liberio Andreatta, head of the Vatican-related pilgrim agency, Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi.

Vatican: Pope didn't change church teaching in call to Argentine woman

Vatican: Pope didn't change church teaching in call to Argentine woman

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VATICAN CITY - Reports that Pope Francis told an Argentine woman civilly married to a divorced man that she can receive Communion "cannot be confirmed as reliable," said Jesuit Father Federico, the Vatican spokesman.

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