2013年9月21日星期六

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Pope's blunt remarks pose challenge for bishops

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 12:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2013 photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis is greeted by Cardinal Timothy Dolan as he meets the Cardinals for the first time after his election at the Vatican. In an interview published Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 in 16 Jesuit journals worldwide, Pope Francis called the church's focus on abortion, marriage and contraception narrow and said it was driving people away. Now, the U.S. bishops face a challenge to rethink a strategy many considered essential for preserving the faith. Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he thought the pope was telling everyone - inside and outside the church - to focus less on divisive social issues. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)NEW YORK (AP) — In recent years, many American bishops have drawn a harder line with parishioners on what could be considered truly Roman Catholic, adopting a more aggressive style of correction and telling abortion rights supporters to stay away from the sacrament of Communion.

Pope keeps cleric who leads nun crackdown in job

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 09:03 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2010 file photo, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza walks past Pope Benedict XVI after receiving Cardinal's ring during a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. Pope Francis on Saturday effectively demoted a highly conservative Italian cardinal who led the Vatican's department on clergy, while keeping in place a German prelate who wages the Catholic church's crackdown on liberal U.S. nuns and helps craft its sex-abuse response. Francis removed Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, with a reputation for being highly traditional on matters of liturgy and the question of priestly celibacy, from the important post of prefect of the congregation for clergy. Piacenza had only held that post since 2010, when he was appointed by Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, whose retro tastes in papal vestments and preference for traditional ceremonies found a supporter in the Italian prelate. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, Files)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday effectively demoted a highly conservative Italian cardinal who led the Vatican's department on clergy, while keeping in place a German prelate who wages the Catholic church's crackdown on liberal U.S. nuns and helps craft its sex-abuse response.

American Catholics like what they're hearing from Pope Francis

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 06:10 AM PDT

Pope Francis shook up the Roman Catholic world this week with his comments about abortion, contraception, and gay marriage, saying such moral and doctrinal issues should not be overemphasized at the cost of "losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel."

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