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After three days of meetings, nine major speeches and heartbreaking testimony from survivors of clerical sexual abuse, participants at the Vatican summit on child protection and the abuse crisis gathered in the Sala Regia (literally, "royal room") of the Apostolic Palace Feb. 23 for a penitential liturgy.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and more than 900 guests attended the 37th Annual Catholic Charities Ball to celebrate charity at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner in McLean Feb. 22.
For the Catholic Church, there is a "line in the sand," which can never be crossed, and that is to not allow anyone who harms or would harm a child to exercise public ministry, said Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston.
Sally O'Dwyer, director of volunteers for Catholic Charities, is moving to Boulder, Colo. Her last day is Feb. 26.
The Catholic Church needs "new legal structures of accountability" for bishops accused of sexual abuse or of negligence in handling abuse allegations, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago told the Vatican summit on safeguarding.
The fact-based story of a tight-knit British family obsessed with the sport of wrestling makes for an entertaining comedy-drama, written and directed by Stephen Merchant.
Only together, by humbly sharing their experiences, encouragement and corrective advice, can the bishops and leaders in the Catholic Church work to prevent the abuse of minors and help bring healing to survivors, said the head of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India.
Immediately after asking bishops and religious superiors to be concrete in confronting the clerical sexual abuse crisis and the need to protect children in the church, Pope Francis handed them a list of 21 action items to consider.
Pro-lifers lobbied against the measure, saying it could have increased abortion rights in the commonwealth.
More than 500 parishioners of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna gathered in DeSales Hall for the annual Spaghetti Supper Feb. 10.
