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Survivors demand US investigation of Mississippi abuse deals

Aug 30, 2019

Catholic sex abuse survivors in Mississippi and Wisconsin on Thursday demanded that federal authorities investigate allegations from three black Mississippi men who say they were molested by Franciscan friars during the mid-1990s, when they were as young as 9 years old.

By Michael Rezendes and Emily Wagster Pettus

In Mississippi Delta, Catholic abuse cases settled on cheap

Aug 27, 2019

A famed Catholic religious order settled sex abuse cases in recent months by secretly paying two black Mississippi men $15,000 each and requiring them to keep silent about their claims, The Associated Press has found.

By Michael Rezendes

Franciscans’ Denver meeting first phase of making six provinces into one

Aug 13, 2019

History was made when close to 400 Franciscan friars — from 25 states as well as Canada, Italy Jamaica, Mexico and the Philippines — gathered in unity and fraternity in Denver for the religious order’s “Chapter of Mats.”

By Catholic News Service

Monastery connects U.S. Catholics to Holy Land, events in Christ’s life

Jul 14, 2019

Father James Gardiner, a Franciscan Friar of the Atonement, who is director of special projects at the monastery, said the gardens and the replicas are meant to “whet your appetite” for seeing the real things in the Holy Land.

By Elizabeth Bachmann

Simple act of providing jugs of water in desert prevents migrant deaths

Jul 22, 2018

The Tucson Samaritans is a humanitarian aid organization founded in 2002 as a mission of Southside Presbyterian Church to prevent death and suffering along the U.S.-Mexico border. Its volunteers drop off food and water in various locations in the desert.

By Peter Tran