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‘Sinning in the Rain’: New study finds crimes go up when it rains on Sundays
By Bob Smietana — December 2, 2021
(RNS) — A new study shows rain can interrupt church-going and may lead to more of certain kinds of crime.
Korean pastor David Yonggi Cho, founder of one of the world’s largest churches, has died
By Bob Smietana — September 14, 2021
(RNS) — Cho, who preached a Korean version of the prosperity gospel, remained a beloved figure even after being convicted of embezzlement.
Vatican court convicts ex-hospital chief in housing scandal
By Nicole Winfield — October 14, 2017
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican court on Saturday (Oct. 14) convicted the former president of the pope’s children’s hospital of diverting some $500,000 in donations to renovate a cardinal’s flat and gave him a one-year suspended sentence. RELATED: Vatican acknowledges past problems at ‘pope’s hospital’ The original charges against ex-hospital president Giuseppe Profiti had […]
Vatican trial dawns for alleged misuse of hospital donations
By Jerome Socolovsky — July 17, 2017
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Tuesday will put its past hospital president, Giuseppe Profiti, and former hospital treasurer, Massimo Spina, on trial on charges they diverted hospital donations to renovate Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone's retirement fixer-upper.
Embezzling priest gets 27 months: ‘It’s … my destiny’
By Patricia Montemurri — December 2, 2015
DETROIT -- Despite the revelations, friends and parishioners continued to reach out to the priest, letting him live in their homes and asking for private counseling even when he was banned from performing public church services.
Not just theology: Catholic seminarians go to summer school to learn management skills
By David Gibson — July 7, 2014
RADNOR, Pa. (RNS) Newly minted Catholic priests often find themselves running a parish just two or three years after ordination. A new summer course aims to give them the business skills to make it work.
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