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Pope: killing of bishop won’t cloud Cyprus trip (AP)

June 4th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he boards a plane for Cyprus at Rome's Fiumicino airport, on Friday, June 4, 2010. Benedict XVI departed Friday on a sensitive three-day trip to Cyprus, a visit likely to be colored by shock over the killing in Turkey of a bishop who had been scheduled to meet with the pontiff. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Pope Benedict XVI says he is “deeply saddened” by the killing of a Catholic bishop in Turkey but adds that the killing is not political and would not…

Roman Catholic bishop stabbed to death in Turkey (AP)

June 3rd, 2010

AP - A Roman Catholic bishop was stabbed to death in southern Turkey on Thursday, a day before he was scheduled to leave for Cyprus to meet with the pope,…

Bishop: 100 cases in 10 yrs for Italy priest abuse (AP)

May 25th, 2010

AP - Italy’s bishops’ conference provided the first ever statistics of clerical sex abuse in the country Tuesday, saying there had been about 100 cases over the past 10 years…

Austrian bishop questions celibacy (AP)

May 12th, 2010

AP - An Austrian bishop who has disagreed with the Vatican in the past about needed reforms said in an interview published Wednesday that the Catholic church should drop its…

Pope accepts resignation of German bishop (AP)

May 8th, 2010

FILE - In this March 2, 2009 file picture Walter Mixa, Catholic Bishop of Augsburg, waits for the beginning of the Spring Assembly of the German Bishop's Conference in Hamburg, northern Germany. The leading bishop from Pope Benedict's XVI's German homeland who is being investigated by prosecutors for alleged sex abuse of his post Saturday May 8, 2010, the latest casualty of the pontiff's housecleaning of prelates stained by accusations of molesting minors. Benedict formally accepted the resignation offer made April 21 by Bishop Walter Mixa, an outspoken conservative voice in the German church and a military chaplain for Germany, as well as head of the Augsburg diocese. Mixa is also under probe for alleged financial misconduct at a children's home under his direction. He had admitted slapping children decades ago when he was a priest, but his lawyer has denied press reports prosecutors are investigating him on a sexual abuse complaint. (AP Photo/Focke Strangmann,File)AP - A leading German bishop who has acknowledged slapping children and is being investigated for sexual abuse of minors and financial misconduct lost his job Saturday as Pope Benedict…

Ex-priest says he reported Belgian bishop abuse (AP)

April 24th, 2010

A man walks past the Papal Cross in Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Vatican said the Roman Catholic Church -- embroiled in scandal over waves of paedophile priest scandals -- must show it has AP - A retired priest said Saturday that he told church authorities years ago about allegations that Belgium’s longest-serving bishop had abused a boy but he was stonewalled until the…

2 ex-priests: we reported Belgian bishop sex abuse (AP)

April 24th, 2010

A man walks past the Papal Cross in Dublin's Phoenix Park. A Belgian Catholic bishop quit his post on Friday after admitting sexually abusing a child, the first such high-level resignation as more paedophilia revelations from the church come to light.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AP - Two former priests say they told church authorities years ago about allegations that Belgium’s longest-serving bishop abused a boy but were stonewalled until he was forced to resign…

Irish bishop resigns in Vatican move against abuse (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

This Jan. 22, 2010 photo shows Bishop James Moriarty of Kildare, Ireland. Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation Thursday, April 22, 2010 of Bishop Moriarty who admitted he didn't challenge the Dublin church's policy of covering up the sexual abuse of children by priests. (AP Photo/PA, Julien Behal) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - PHOTOGRAPH CAN NOT BE STORED OR USED FOR MORE THAN 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSIONAP - Heads are starting to roll in the Catholic Church’s child abuse scandal.


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Irish bishop resigns, says he didn’t report abuse (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful at the end of a general audience he held in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI promised Wednesday that the Catholic Church would take action to confront the clerical sex abuse scandal, making his first public comments on the crisis days after meeting with victims. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - The pope has accepted the resignation of an Irish bishop who admitted he didn’t challenge the Dublin church’s policy of covering up clerical sex abuse.


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German bishop offers to resign over abuse (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

FILE - The March 2, 2009 file photo shows Augsburg's Bishop Walter Mixa during the bishops conference in Hamburg, northern Germany. Mixa is offering his resignation after a flap over allegations of physical abuse and financial misconduct, his hometown newspaper reported Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday evening offering to resign as bishop and as Germany's Roman Catholic military chaplain, the daily Augsburger Allgemeine reported, without citing sources. ,(AP Photo/Focke Strangmann, file)AP - A leading conservative Roman Catholic bishop in Germany has written to Pope Benedict XVI offering to resign amid persistent allegations of physical abuse and financial misconduct, the Augsburg…

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