The pandemic was especially challenging for Orthodox churches, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons and crosses, and receiving Communion from a shared spoon and chalice. A new study reveals that Orthodox ...
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Sixty people have filed lawsuits in St. Louis and surrounding counties alleging they were abused as children by dozens of Catholic priests, nuns and others, the Catholic News Agency and Associated Press ...
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As the CDC and media herald the arrival of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, bioethics groups say it has ethical issues. The National Catholic Bioethics Center and the United States Conference ...
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Bishop James V. Johnston Jr. of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese is under fire for a letter he wrote encouraging Catholics to vote for pro-life candidates. The letter does not explicitly tell ...
Read More »Pregnant teacher loses lawsuit against local Catholic diocese
A jury on Sept. 18 ruled in favor of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in the case of a schoolteacher who said she had been fired for being single and pregnant, ...
Read More »Wyoming sexual abuse allegations have Missouri connection
Sexual abuse allegations within the Catholic Church of Wyoming have a Kansas City connection. The Diocese of Cheyenne says it has substantiated three more allegations of sexual abuse against former Bishop Joseph ...
Read More »Three Missouri Catholic dioceses ask Hawley to investigate
The Catholic dioceses Kansas City-St. Joseph, of St. Louis, and Jefferson City have asked the Missouri Attorney General’s office to investigate whether their clergy members have committed sexual abuse. Attorney General Josh ...
Read More »Jury rocks Catholic Church with abuse indictments
More than 1,000 children — and possibly many more — were molested by hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses, while senior church officials took steps to cover up the ...
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