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Mental competency hearing delayed for US priest charged with raping teen
Lawrence Hecker is charged with raping teenager after strangling him in 1975 in a New Orleans...
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Insider art: Vatican sets up Biennale pavilion at Venice women’s jail
Pope Francis to attend installation that includes short film featuring Zoë Saldaña and Giudecca inmatesOriginally a...
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Doctor to say if New Orleans priest with rape charges is competent to stand trial
Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker, 92, was evaluated by psychiatrist after defense attorneys said he’s too sick...
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Dismay as Louisiana lookback law for child sexual abuse victims struck down
Court rules 4-3 to overturn law that had allowed victims to file civil suits over sexual...
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Priest accused of abusing Inuit children in Canada will not be dismissed by church
Senior church officials in Rome decline to act, citing worsening health of French clergyman known as...
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New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist at cathedral ‘scandalous’
Pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral condemns service for Cecilia Gentili after she was celebrated as being...
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Catholic church loses high court bid to prevent father of George Pell accuser suing for damages
Father’s lawyers label high court of Australia decision a ‘monumental outcome’ for families of clergy sexual...
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Child abuse detectives reportedly search home of former Broome bishop Christopher Saunders
Saunders has not been charged with any offence and denies allegations he sexually assaulted and groomed...
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‘Meloni’s response left me stunned’: the Italian priest taking on the mafia
Maurizio Patriciello has had police protection since a bombing near his church in Caivano, Naples, but...
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Vatican: same-sex couples ruling is not endorsement of homosexuality
New practice does not endorse homosexuality but is not heretical, Catholic church says amid opposition from...