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Convicted bishop is Catholic hierarchy’s elephant in the room
(RNS) As the nation's Catholic bishops gather in Baltimore next week, they will be facing questions about how they will cope with the re-election of President Obama. But also looming is the question of how they will deal with Bishop Robert Finn of Missouri, who in September became the first bishop found guilty of covering up for a priest suspected of child abuse. By David Gibson.
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Is the Catholic hierarchy moving toward the GOP?
(RNS) A series of recent developments are renewing concerns that the Catholic bishops are tilting toward the Republican Party, with much of the attention focusing on comments by a leading prelate, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, who said he “certainly can’t vote for somebody who’s either pro-choice or pro-abortion.” By David Gibson.
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Cardinal Dolan - and Sister Simone Campbell - to bless the Democratic convention
NEW YORK (RNS) In a move that could recast the reigning political narrative about the bishops and the election, Cardinal Timothy Dolan has accepted an invitation to deliver the closing benediction at the Democratic National Convention, a week after he gives a similar blessing to the Republicans in Tampa. By David Gibson.
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Spike Lee sits on the set of his film "Red Hook Summer" with actors Toni Lysaith and Jules Brown.
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Humanae Vitae inspires Bethany Meola, 27, who works in Washington, D.C., for the USCCB committee headed by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades. Married a little more than a year ago, Meola and her husband practice natural family planning and are open about their hopes that it will help them conceive.
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Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana and Sister Kathleen Kneuven speak with students in the parking lot of St. Jude Catholic Church in Fort Wayne. Bishop Rhoades is chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which is sponsoring Natural Family Planning Awareness Week.
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U.S. bishops gather for their annual mid-year meeting June 13 in Atlanta. Pictured from right are Bishop Peter F. Christensen of Superior, Wis.; Auxiliary Bishop Donald J. Hying of Milwaukee; and Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix.
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Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni of Baghdad, right, and Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, take questions from U.S. bishops during the bishops' mid-year meeting in Atlanta June 13, 2012. Bishop Warduni discussed the issues facing Christians in Iraq and other places in the Middle East.
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New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, addresses the bishops at their annual mid-year meeting June 13, 2012 in Atlanta. At left is Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., vice president of the conference.
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Catholic bishops told to follow their own policies against sexual abuse
(RNS) Assessing a decade of efforts by the Catholic hierarchy to defuse the clergy abuse scandal, the leader of a lay review board on Wednesday (June 13) warned the bishops that they must start to follow their own policies against child sexual abuse if they are to have any hope of restoring their fragile credibility. By David Gibson.
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