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• White House fights Catholic Church subpoena on birth control
• Pope seeks decisive action against sex abuse
• Victims' groups cool to Pope Francis's first comments on abuse scandal
• Pope Francis Calls for 'Decisive Action' on Sexual Abuse, but Can He Really Act?
• Good Reads: Christian Middle East exodus, online ed, drone strikes, and Japan's prisons
• Pope Francis urges decisive action against sex abuse
• Pope Francis says he will act "with determination" against sex abuse cases in church

White House fights Catholic Church subpoena on birth control Posted: 05 Apr 2013 05:15 PM PDT By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has gone to court to try to block a subpoena from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York seeking White House documents about the government's requirement of insurance coverage for birth control. The subpoena requesting documents from President Barack Obama and his senior advisers would be burdensome to fulfill, the administration said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Citing U.S. ...

Pope seeks decisive action against sex abuse Posted: 05 Apr 2013 01:10 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis directed the Vatican on Friday to act decisively on clergy sex abuse cases and punish pedophile priests, saying the Catholic Church's "credibility" was on the line. The announcement was quickly dismissed by some victims' advocates as just more talk, while others lobbying for reform in the church held out hope the new pontiff might challenge the Vatican's bureaucratic culture seen as fostering a cover-up mentality.

Victims' groups cool to Pope Francis's first comments on abuse scandal Posted: 05 Apr 2013 11:22 AM PDT Pope Francis called on the Catholic Church to take decisive action against sexually abusive priests, to bring offenders to justice, and to protect children, in his first remarks on an issue that dominated the papacy of his predecessor and is likely to loom large in his own reign.

Pope Francis Calls for 'Decisive Action' on Sexual Abuse, but Can He Really Act? Posted: 05 Apr 2013 09:29 AM PDT Pope Francis has finally offered his first official thoughts about what he plans to do about the Cathloic Church's sexual abuse problem. On Friday, the Vatican released a statement calling for the Church to "continue the line desired by Benedict XVI of decisive action," including support for abuse victims and punishment for those who have committed crimes.

Good Reads: Christian Middle East exodus, online ed, drone strikes, and Japan's prisons Posted: 05 Apr 2013 09:01 AM PDT The post-Arab Spring climate in the Middle East has accelerated a "Christian exodus" from the region, says Hassan Mneimneh of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in a piece on RealClearWorld.com. He sees "[t]he fate of the Christians in the Middle East" as "inseparable from the region's transformation into a viable, prosperous, and progressive home for all of its inhabitants."

Pope Francis urges decisive action against sex abuse Posted: 05 Apr 2013 07:30 AM PDT By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis wants the Catholic Church to "act decisively" to root out sexual abuse of children by priests and ensure the perpetrators are punished, the Vatican said on Friday. Francis, in a meeting with the Holy See's doctrinal chief, Archbishop Gerhard Mueller, had declared that combating sexual abuse was important "for the Church and its credibility", a statement said. Francis inherited a Church mired in problems and a major scandal over priestly abuse of children. ...

Pope Francis says he will act "with determination" against sex abuse cases in church Posted: 05 Apr 2013 05:28 AM PDT VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has indicated that he will act against sex abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church.

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