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Family loses appeal in lawsuit over priest’s funeral remarks
By Associated Press — July 12, 2021
TEMPERANCE, Mich. (AP) — A priest who criticized a teenager's suicide during his funeral is protected by the First Amendment.
Did an Italian priest really give up his respirator for a younger patient?
By Claire Giangravé — March 24, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Rev. Giuseppe Berardelli was known as someone who gave of himself for others.
Pope laments ‘hemorrhaging’ of priests and nuns in Europe
By Paul O'Donnell — May 21, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis voiced alarm Monday at the 'hemorrhaging' of nuns and priests in Europe, saying many monasteries, convents and churches will close as fewer people are called to lives of religious service.
Another Catholic priest killed in Central African Republic
By Fredrick Nzwili — May 4, 2018
(RNS) — The Rev. Albert Toungoumale–Baba is the second Catholic priest to be killed in about a month in the CAR.
Mexican priest stabbed to death in church
By Associated Press — April 19, 2018
(AP) — A Roman Catholic priest has been stabbed to death in his church on the outskirts of Mexico City.
After priest is killed in Congo, clerics say they won’t be intimidated
By Lauren Markoe — April 13, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The killing of a parish priest in the Goma Diocese was the second murder of a Catholic priest by militias in the last three years.
Spending Lent with Alexa
By Thomas Reese — February 5, 2018
(RNS) — A Catholic priest should not have a woman in his bedroom at night, but the Rev. Thomas Reese confesses he has become quite dependent on this "smart lady" and is not planning to give her up.
Unrelenting killing of Coptic Christians intensifies debate over martyrdom
By guest — October 13, 2017
CAIRO (RNS) — 'We need to stop viewing this harassment toward us with pride and saying terrorism gives us a chance to play the same role our ancestors did like in those Sunday school stories about the torture of martyrs,' said Bassem Al-Janoubie, an Egyptian Coptic Christian.
Q&A: Rev. James Martin contemplates reaction to his book on LGBT Catholics
By Charles C. Camosy — September 13, 2017
(RNS) — 'What most LGBT Catholics want first is simply to feel at home in their parishes, and not be treated like dirt, which many of them are,' said the Rev. James Martin, author of a new book on the Roman Catholic Church and LGBT people.
Pennsylvania monsignor to plead guilty to embezzling $500,000
By David DeKok — April 6, 2017
(RNS) “He is ashamed and remorseful, and hopes he can someday redeem himself in the eyes of the archdiocese and parishioners,” said his lawyer.
90 seconds of clergy swapping: UCC video preaches interfaith harmony
By Lauren Markoe — January 24, 2017
(RNS) Most people who have seen it find it moving, though some question preaching in the garb of another faith.
Indonesian priest attack inspired by murder of French Catholic cleric
By Tom Heneghan — August 31, 2016
Police say the attacker was self-radicalized, but also working with an associate in the so-called Islamic State.
Last Catholic priest to survive Dachau camp dies
By Yonat Shimron — June 15, 2016
(RNS) The priest was one of around 2,800 clergy interned during World War II at Dachau.
Hindu priest in Bangladesh hacked to death by suspected Islamists
By RNS staff — June 8, 2016
DHAKA -- Since February last year, militants have killed more than 30 people in Bangladesh, including members of religious minorities, liberal bloggers and academics.
UK Catholic priest who fled sex abuse allegations arrested in Kosovo
By Yonat Shimron — May 16, 2016
(RNS) He fled in 2010 after a man in his 40s accused the priest of abusing him as a child.
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