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US bishops set collision course with Vatican over plan to press Biden not to take Communion
By Steven P. Millies — June 16, 2021
(The Conversation) — A debate over whether President Biden's views on abortion disqualify him from taking Communion serves to expose a rift between US bishops and the pope, and is a threat to the church itself.
Eric Talley, ‘a faithful and heroic officer’ killed in Boulder shooting, honored in Catholic funeral Mass
By Alejandra Molina — March 30, 2021
(RNS) — Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila offered his condolences to Talley’s family and offered prayers for law enforcement officers, who he said are too often 'taken for granted.’
9 new Catholic priests named in Colorado sex abuse report
By Colleen Slevin — December 2, 2020
(AP) — Nine more Catholic priests, including one well known for helping Denver’s homeless, were found to have sexually abused children in an updated report on sex abuse in Colorado’s Catholic churches.
Colorado releases new report on Catholic sex abuse in state
By Jack Jenkins — October 23, 2019
(RNS) — The report states that 97 of the victims were sexually abused 'after the Colorado Dioceses were on notice that the priests were child sex abusers.'
Catholic hospital under fire for saying fetuses aren’t ‘people’
By Bob Smietana — January 25, 2013
(RNS) A Catholic hospital in Colorado has argued in court documents that it is not liable for the deaths of two 7-month-old fetuses because those fetuses are not people.
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