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Then, in May 2023, Gerlach and the Diocese of Fort Worth’s six acting nuns and two in training sued the church and its bishop for $1 million, per Chron.
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Charna Flam, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Ironically, if Trump does start deporting migrants and cutting public funding for Catholic charities, the US bishops could end up much more closely aligned with Francis’ agenda.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
The bishops have recommended that the Department of Homeland Security shorten the length of time clergy must remain abroad while reapplying for a temporary visa, from 12 months to 30 days.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
The commission expressed a desire for greater collaboration with the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, noting a willingness on the office's part to explore ways to assist bishops and religious leaders in addressing victims' needs.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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Charna Flam, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Ironically, if Trump does start deporting migrants and cutting public funding for Catholic charities, the US bishops could end up much more closely aligned with Francis’ agenda.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
The bishops have recommended that the Department of Homeland Security shorten the length of time clergy must remain abroad while reapplying for a temporary visa, from 12 months to 30 days.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
The commission expressed a desire for greater collaboration with the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, noting a willingness on the office's part to explore ways to assist bishops and religious leaders in addressing victims' needs.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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Accusations that emerged earlier against McCarrick, who served as the archbishop of Newark and Washington, D.C., helped fuel the latest wave of the abuse crisis in 2018, along with disclosures from a Pennsylvania grand jury showing hundreds of abusive clerics in that state.Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
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The cathedral’s thunderous organ, its 8,000-pipes painstakingly restored and cleaned of toxic dust, will also respond to the archbishop’s invocation, with four organists playing a variety of melodies.Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Or, how the Catholic Church elects a pope (sort of).Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024
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Inside the pope’s compound, he’s got a theater that was built in 900 AD.Denise Quan, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024
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King Sverre of Norway personally provided information to the writer, Icelandic abbot Karl Jónsson, and instructed him on the details of the saga, Brink added.Hannah Peart, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
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The abbot told him to begin every morning by performing exactly 108 bows, a meditation exercise in Korean Buddhism.Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
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The diocesan website includes a statement from Dallas Bishop Edward Burns connecting the need for social distancing with the story of the Good Samaritan.David Tarrant, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
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In the Catholic Church, this is generally a time of the year when dioceses ask their members to donate to annual bishops’ Lenten appeals, which fund diocesan operations.Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2020
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Allegation #3: Former Penn admissions dean airs frustrations Monday’s court filing also says the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school in Philadelphia, gave the children of donors preferential treatment.Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Instead, CEOs and deans are letting right-wing activists bully them into junking the whole project.The Week UK, theweek, 15 Dec. 2024
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This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
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The Rev. Allen D. Timm, executive presbyter of the Presbytery Church in Detroit, said the church is waiting to hear from the general assembly as to when volunteers will be dispatched to Houston.Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2017
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The prelate suggested that any rush toward legalizing civil divorce could undermine Filipino families – the foundational aspect of society, according to the country’s constitution.Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2024
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Archbishop José Gomez, the soft-spoken, hard-line prelate.Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
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In the 1920s, at the tail end of World War I, Dr. William Goodwin–then pastor of Virginia’s historic Bruton Parish Church–wrote to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. with a petition to restore his hometown of Colonial Williamsburg.Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.Fox News Staff, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Bishop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bishop. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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