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Irish bishops tell priests who father children to “face up” to responsibilities
- Global Church
- August 21, 2017
The bishops of Ireland say that in the case of a child fathered by a Catholic priest, the priest should not walk away from his responsibilities – legal, moral and financial. The guidelines written by the Irish Bishops’ Conference were written as the Vatican faces a deadline to respond to UN recommendations to “assess the number of children fathered by Catholic priests, find out who they are and take all necessary measures to ensure that the rights of those children to know and to be cared for by their fathers is respected.”
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Bishop in violence-torn Congo appeals to youth: ‘Keep your priests alive’
- Global Church
- August 7, 2017
In a dramatic appeal on August 5, Bishop Melchisédech Sikuli Paluku of Butembo in eastern Congo called on Catholic youth to protect the lives and physical safety of their priests, two of whom were kidnapped at gunpoint in July. It’s a largely lawless region where power belongs to whichever faction is heavily armed enough to grab it, and Catholic personnel are often at special risk.
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Vatican article says ‘main obstacle’ for Pope Francis is bishops, priests
- Vatican
- July 23, 2017
Shortly after one Vatican article stirred debate by asserting there’s an “ecumenism of hate” in the U.S. between conservative Evangelicals and Catholics, another over the weekend asserted that the “main obstacle” to implementing Pope Francis’s vision for the Church is “closure, if not hostility” from “a good part of the clergy, at levels both high and low.”
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Indian politician suggests ransom fund for kidnapped priest
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- June 1, 2017
Since Father Tom Uzhunnalil was kidnapped while serving in Yemen, the Church has not done enough to secure his safe return according to a member of India’s Legislative Assembly who suggested that the kidnappers are only interested in money and not prayers.
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In Iraq, necessity makes priests become engineers
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- May 29, 2017
Fr. Georges Jahola, a Syrian Catholic priest, said that “here in Iraq if the Church doesn’t do these things, who’s going to do them? We have the capacity to act and do the talking, and also the contacts.” Therefore, they are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work.
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Pope tells Egypt religious never to fear or flee from the cross
- Pope Francis in Egypt
- April 29, 2017
Pope Francis met with Egypt’s priests, religious, and seminarians at Cairo’s Al-Maadi Seminary on the final day of his April 28-29 visit to the country, intended to both offer support to local Christians and strengthen interfaith and ecumenical ties in the region. Given Egypt’s rich monastic history, the pontiff told the religious to draw from the example of figures such as Saint Paul the Hermit, Saint Anthony and the Desert Fathers.
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