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Italian nun murdered in Somalia to be beatified in Italy
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- May 25, 2018
An Italian Consolata sister murdered in Somalia in 2006 will be beatified in Piacenza, Italy, May 26.
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George Weigel weathering turbulent times with stouthearted friends
- Book Review
- Apr 15, 2018
In George Weigel’s latest book, he’s not reflecting on the Pope Francis era, but the entire global situation over the last quarter-century.
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Nun killed in backlash over Regensburg declared a martyr
- Vatican
- Nov 9, 2017
Beyond that of Pope John Paul I, the “Smiling Pope,” other sainthood causes were also advanced this week by Pope Francis, including that of Sister Leonella Sgorbati, an Italian missionary nun shot to death in Somalia in 2006 along with her Muslim driver and bodyguard, Mohamed Osman Mahamud, in the backlash over Pope Benedict XVI’s famous Regensburg speech.
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Critic: German Catholicism is rich – but in the wrong ways
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- Aug 13, 2017
The editor of Catholic News Agency’s German edition wrote an opinion article for The Catholic Herald in the U.K. summarizing his view of what has gone wrong for the Catholic Church in his country of Germany. While it is a church rich in terms of money, it is losing members quickly, and those who stay aren’t going to Mass.
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Ex-Vatican doctrine chief says Church did what it could on German abuse scandal
- Global Church
- Jul 20, 2017
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, until recently the head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, spoke about a recent report that found 547 former members of the Regensburg Domspatzen boys choir were abused, including 67 cases of sexual violence. As former diocesan archbishop, he began the investigations into the allegations, which first surfaced in 2010.
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Hundreds of boys abused in choir once run by Georg Ratzinger
- Associated Press, Global Church
- Jul 18, 2017
Allegations involving the Domspatzen choir in Regensburg, which was run for 30 years by Benedict’s elder brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, were among a spate of revelations of abuse by Catholic clergy in Germany that emerged in 2010. A new report investigating the abuse counted 500 cases of physical violence and 67 of sexual violence, committed by a total of 49 perpetrators.
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