Boston Archdiocese Asks Outside Panel Help
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The Boston archdiocese is asking a panel of community leaders to review its ongoing reconfiguration, though the committee won't revisit the sometimes bitter parish closings that have already occurred.
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In a dramatic plea for understanding, Archbishop Sean P. O&#39;Malley yesterday described his effort to close parishes as &#39;&#39;personally repulsive to me,&quot; but
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The Roman Catholic diocese of Palm Beach, Fla., and national sex abuse victims' groups called today for former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to give police the name of the clergyman who allegedly abused him as a teenager.
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By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY  DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans spent Thursday locked in discussion about the church's American wing, whose leader is under increasing pressure to reconsider her support for ordaining gays and blessing same-sex couples.
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The top legislator in Lithuania has sent a letter to Boston Archbishop Sean O&#39;Malley, asking him to reconsider his decision to close St.
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Emotions have boiled up at Mount Carmel and the seven other churches where around-the-clock protest vigils have forestalled parish closures planned by the Archdiocese of Boston.
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CHARLESTON, SC - The report of an Anglican commission criticizing the Episcopal Church for consecrating a gay bishop may not be a strong enough prescription for the illness, the Rev.
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An Anglican church panel studying the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire sharply criticized the US Episcopal Church church Monday and called on its leaders to apologize for the turmoil their actions have caused.
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News that the largest nonprofit hospital chain in the United States plans to absorb six hospitals operated by the Archdiocese of Boston triggered a debate yesterday about the future of Catholic healthcare in the region.
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Victims in child abuse cases involving Church of England officials call for fresh inquiries into possible similar cases.
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A hearing into whether Catholic Church files can be handed over to an inquiry into child abuse is delayed.
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By Liz F. Kay, The Baltimore Sun  May 26--Local United Methodist clergy are asking for a judicial opinion from the denomination's highest legal authority on Bishop John R. Schol's decision to reappoint a transgender pastor to a Charles Village congregation.
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A senior Anglican Church commission Monday urged US church leaders to apologize for consecrating a gay priest as bishop and called for a moratorium on the blessing of same-sex marriages.
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The sexual abuse scandal in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church that rocked Boston six years ago and rippled across the country before the latest after-shock in Los Angeles does not appear to have markedly thinned the church's ranks or the money it takes in.
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ALBANY, New York  - Some are Catholics who see   their church as stuck in the past. Others are believers who   happen to be divorced, pregnant before marriage or gay. A few   just can't find a priest when they need one.
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Pope John Paul II asks US bishops to give more guidance to Catholic priests, to avoid a repetition of the child sex abuse scandal.
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The Church of England is to consider possible rules for settling Anglican disputes, amid the row over gay priests.