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Cross-burning victims to priest who was once a member of KKK: Apology is not enough

Aug 23, 2017

The couple who was terrorized 40 years ago by a member of the Ku Klux Klan who later became a Catholic priest is calling for him to give the authorities any information he might have on other white supremacists who participated in his crimes. Father William Aitcheson said his actions at the time were “despicable.”

By Associated Press

Philippine churches to ring bells to protest drug killings

Aug 20, 2017

Archbishop Socrates Villegas asks his countrymen, “Why are we no longer horrified by the sound of the gun and blood flowing on the sidewalks?” He said church bells will be rung to rouse the citizens against the evils of Duterte’s extrajudicial killings of people suspected of being involved in the drug trade.

By Associated Press

Evangelical advisers stay with Trump as others criticize him
- Aug 19, 2017
In the midst of the criticism of President Trump from his fellow Republicans and the resignations of his advisory councils in the wake of his response to the violence in Charlottesville last week, there is one group that has stood by him. His group of evangelical advisers has lost only one member. The rest are steadfast in their support and defense.

By Associated Press
Statue of first Catholic Supreme Court justice removed because he wrote Dred Scott decision
- Aug 18, 2017
A statue of Roger B. Taney, the first Catholic to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, was removed from the Maryland Statehouse, after objections were made to honoring the author of the Dred Scott decision, which upheld slavery. The removal came after the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, with clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters which left one person dead.

By Associated Press
Marist Brothers: School director in Buenos Aires admits abusing student
- Aug 18, 2017
The head of a Marist high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has admitted to abusing a student nearly 40 years ago. The order said the victim has not filed a lawsuit and that Brother Angel Duples has not been charged. The case is the latest in a series of church sex-abuse scandals in Pope Francis’s native Argentina.

By Almudena Calatrava