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Pope Francis says in a newly released documentary that homosexuals should be protected by civil union laws, in some of the clearest language he has used on the rights of gay people.
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A Vatican court has heard graphic descriptions of sexual abuse as two priests went on trial, one charged with repeatedly raping an altar boy in a youth seminary and the other of covering up the attacks.
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Pope Francis tweeted about the persecution of Jesus and those suffering from an “unjust sentence because someone had it in for them” soon after the High Court overturned child sex abuse convictions of former Vatican treasurer, Cardinal George Pell.
Cardinal George Pell has left Geelong’s Barwon Prison after the High Court today set him free, saying that “justice prevailed” and he felt no ill will towards the man who accused him of child sexual abuse.
Pope Francis, in one of the most significant decisions of his papacy, has dismissed a proposal to allow some married men to be ordained in the Amazon region to ease an acute scarcity of priests.
The Vatican women’s magazine is blaming the drastic drop in the number of nuns worldwide in part on their wretched working conditions and the sexual abuse and abuses of power they suffer at the hands of priests and their own superiors.
