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Catholics in England suffered long repression (AP)

September 11th, 2010

AP - For nearly three centuries after the Reformation, Catholics in England were outlaws.

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Catholics sent predator priest to remote village (AP)

May 8th, 2010

In this May 2, 2010 photo, worshippers arrive for Sunday mass at St. Peter's Church in Kamakwie, Sierra Leone, where priest Rev. James Tully used to preach. This faraway corner of West Africa, where there is no electricity, no piped water and wretched poverty, is where the Roman Catholic Church sent Tully, twice. A 40-year-old schoolteacher now charges that Tully abused him and other boys repeatedly during his first stint in Sierra Leone, from 1979 to 1985. After a conviction in the U.S. for giving minors alcohol and groping them, the church sent Tully back to Sierra Leone for a second stint from 1994 to 1998. (AP Photo/Nazia Parvez)AP - A rutted red dirt track leads to the “bar,” a couple of homemade wood benches in the shade of an old tree dripping with wild mangoes. Within easy…

Catholics find ties to the church tested by crisis (AP)

March 30th, 2010

AP - An Austrian priest avoids mention of Pope Benedict XVI in his Masses. A Philadelphia woman stops going to confession, saying she now sees priests as more flawed than…

German Catholics to investigate abuse charges (AP)

March 10th, 2010

The spokesman of the diocese Regensburg Clemens Neck is seen in front of a painting showing Pope John Paul II in Regensburg, southern Germany, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The Roman Catholic diocese of Regensburg in southern Germany said it appointed an independent investigator to examine the allegations of physical and sexual abuse that have engulfed the prestigious Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir, which was led by the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the pope's older brother, from 1964 until 1994. So far, the sexual abuse allegations predate Ratzinger's term. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)AP - Catholic authorities in Germany announced two major abuse investigations Wednesday — one into the renowned choir once led by Pope Benedict XVI’s brother and another more general look…

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