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• Pope seeks historic easing of rigid Catholic doctrine
• Vatican removes deputy bishop in Peru after sex abuse allegations
• Pope message heralds change of tone on gays, abortion
• Arrested cleric in Vatican scandal to go on trial on December 3
• End of day of rest in Saskatchewan labour law worries Regina's archbishop
• How the pope's statements on abortion, gays reflect his Latin American roots
• Pope blasts abortion after decrying focus on rules
• Christian hostel helped by Syria rebels
• What the GOP could learn from Pope Francis
• Pope Francis signals remarkable shift in priorities for Catholics

Pope seeks historic easing of rigid Catholic doctrine Posted: 20 Sep 2013 04:09 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Pope Francis has urged a break with the Catholic Church's harsh "obsession" with divorce, gays, contraception and abortion, in an interview signalling a dramatic shift in the Vatican's tone.The Argentine pope has brought a series of fresh perspectives to the notoriously rigid Church since his election in March, and his latest remarks on some of its key doctrines sent shock waves around the world. ...

Vatican removes deputy bishop in Peru after sex abuse allegations Posted: 20 Sep 2013 04:01 PM PDT LIMA (Reuters) - The Vatican, under Pope Francis' "zero-tolerance" policy for pedophile priests, removed an auxiliary bishop from his post in a Peruvian province because of allegations he sexually abused children, a bishop said on Friday. Luis Bambaren, the former president of Peru's bishops' conference and bishop emeritus of Chimbote, told local media that Gabino Miranda was dismissed as auxiliary bishop in the dioceses of Ayacucho, a poor Andean region in southern Peru, after he was accused of having sexual relations with minors. ...

Pope message heralds change of tone on gays, abortion Posted: 20 Sep 2013 10:47 AM PDT By Philip Pullella and Tom Heneghan VATICAN CITY/PARIS (Reuters) - A landmark interview by Pope Francis will force conservative members of the Catholic Church to re-calibrate how they deal with gays, abortion and contraception but is not expected to be the precursor to seismic changes in doctrine, papal experts say. Pope Francis sent a clear message to officials from the highest reaches of the hierarchy down to the most remote parish that they should not be obsessed with structures, rules and regulations and not put people in moral ghettos. ...

Arrested cleric in Vatican scandal to go on trial on December 3 Posted: 20 Sep 2013 09:59 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - A prelate and former Vatican finance official at the center of a money-laundering investigation will appear in court on December 3, judicial sources said on Friday. Monsignor Nunzio Scarano is accused along with a secret service agent and a financial broker of conspiring to smuggle millions of euros out of Switzerland for rich shipbuilder friends in his home town of Salerno, near Naples, in southern Italy. The case has added to the clouds over the Vatican Bank, formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR). ...

End of day of rest in Saskatchewan labour law worries Regina's archbishop Posted: 20 Sep 2013 09:37 AM PDT REGINA - The Catholic archbishop of Regina is raising concerns about changes to Saskatchewan's labour law that eliminate a reference to Sunday as a day of rest.

How the pope's statements on abortion, gays reflect his Latin American roots Posted: 20 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT Six months into his papacy, Pope Francis delivered a blunt message to the church: Stop obsessively preaching about the ills of abortion, contraception, and gay marriage.

Pope blasts abortion after decrying focus on rules Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:50 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis offered an olive branch of sorts to the doctrine-minded, conservative wing of the Catholic Church on Friday as he denounced abortions as a symptom of today's "throw-away culture" and encouraged Catholic doctors to refuse to perform them.

Christian hostel helped by Syria rebels Posted: 20 Sep 2013 04:44 AM PDT As social media abound with horror stories of jihadists murdering minorities in Syria, a group of elderly Christians in Aleppo and the rebels who care for them portray a different reality.

What the GOP could learn from Pope Francis Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:05 PM PDT Pope Francis is a hit. In July, he drew three million people to Mass at Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach. A Pew Research Center poll released this month shows that 79 percent of Catholics have a favorable view of him, compared to only four percent who view him unfavorably.

Pope Francis signals remarkable shift in priorities for Catholics Posted: 19 Sep 2013 05:54 PM PDT Pope Francis again signaled a remarkable shift of priorities for the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, saying in an interview released Thursday that the church's moral edifice would "fall like a house of cards" if it did not prioritize the proclamation of the saving love of God over its current emphasis on dogmatic and moral teachings.

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