The Vatican rarely if ever, however, imposes such a penalty on elderly prelates.
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Some prelates have made it plain that they will now observe that injunction quite strictly.
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"They know each other very well," said Ms. Lucente of the prelates and Mr. Conte.
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Under Francis, those prelates now stay out of sight in the front section of the plane.
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Will Francis listen to the prelates, and start sending tough messages, public or private, to Mr Maduro?
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It was the latest of many instances when Francis has taken the side of his fellow prelates.
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This would give Rome at least a semblance of control and allow it to recognise these prelates.
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There are about 100 bishops and prelates in China, including underground and approved, and a dozen vacant positions.
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"Many prelates don't want to hear these things, because it is easier to have nuns" who play subservient roles.
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The new appointees among the cardinals will include prelates from Morocco, Indonesia, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Its constituent parts were told to place themselves under the authority of the main Orthodox prelates in their respective countries.
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It's why many conservative Catholics unwisely defended John Paul II-appointed prelates like Boston's Bernard Law in the early 2000s.
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The prelates who organized the summit argued that any papal edicts might fall flat or fade away with Francis' papacy.
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The prelates said they were focusing solely on sex abuse of minors to avoid distraction by adding too many subjects.
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TWICE in the past few days, Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of senior prelates who were embroiled in abuse scandals.
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Now a new Church law says prelates should "strip themselves of desires of power and of the pretence of being indispensable".
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Amid all these squabbles, there is something mysterious about any gathering of mitred, bearded prelates from different corners of the world.
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But popes often keep favored prelates in office past 75, and Francis has kept Cardinal Wuerl in the pivotal Washington seat.
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But other conservative prelates in the American hierarchy have not been shy to criticize Francis on a broad variety of issues.
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And I object to comfortable prelates in a higher realm, penning panegyrics for the doyens of a culture that destroys my children.
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And there will be children of priests, including Mr. Doyle, who is scheduled to meet privately in Rome with several prominent prelates.
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He blames the local prelates for the stalling of a political "dialogue" which he wants to conduct on his own self-interested terms.
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A Vatican official said after resignations of three Chilean bishops in June that the pope was considering the positions of the other prelates.
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Unlike the prelates, however, farmers are already grappling with the adverse consequences of the referendum vote last June to leave the European Union.
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Bishop Lei is one of several Catholic prelates who have been appointed by China's state religious authorities without the blessing of the pope.
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He was one of the earliest and most senior prelates in Ireland to express concern about the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers.
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The new cardinals who pledged loyalty to the pope on Saturday included prelates from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America.
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The heads of all the world's Catholic bishops' conferences—more than a hundred prelates—will be expected to attend, from February 21st to 24th.
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Conservative parts of the church peeled off to form the Anglican Communion of North America, which sought allies among the traditionalist prelates of Africa.
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"Created by indigenous hands with traditional techniques, they were destined for European prelates and princes," art historian Pascal Mongne writes in Images Take Flight.
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Italian media at the time reported that a faction of prelates who wanted to discredit Benedict and pressure him to resign was behind the leaks.
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Cardinals are the highest-ranking Catholic prelates below the pope and those under 80 years old can vote in a conclave to elect his successor.
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The Catholic prelates of Germany, and of England and Wales, considered the matter and decided to let their existing ("lead us not into...") versions stand.
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Although different prelates take different views, the church has in the last few years resisted proposals for a compromise solution between Greek- and Turkish-Cypriots.
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In the United States, where the crisis has exploded in the past few months, he has also accepted the resignations of prelates, though sometimes reluctantly.
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Amid a spiraling sexual abuse crisis that has threatened the pontificate of Pope Francis, America's top Roman Catholic prelates met with the pontiff on Thursday.
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It&aposs the latest in a series of cases of high-profile prelates being brought down because of inappropriate sexual relations with adults under their authority.
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Then, Catholic prelates donated the church and its grounds to the town of Monterchi in the 18th century, so that the town could build a cemetery.
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The first Catholic bishop was ordained in China under a new arrangement between the state and the Vatican which gives both a say in appointing prelates.
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The four prelates insisted that they were not "adversaries" of the pope, but merely concerned with helping him do his job according to established principles and rules.
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From the mid-15th century there was a period when two different prelates (one based in Moscow, other further west) claimed the title of Metropolitan of Kiev.
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The division pits bishops who are appointed by the Chinese state but unrecognised by the Vatican, against "underground" prelates who see themselves as answerable only to Rome.
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To prepare the way for a deal, some of those old-guard bishops are being asked to step aside in favour of prelates who enjoy Beijing's approval.
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Pope Francis on Sunday named 17 new cardinals, including three Americans, adding prelates from developing countries to give them a greater voice in selecting the next pope.
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An American delegation of prelates met with Francis at Vatican City to ask for an investigation into former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is accused of abusing seminarians.
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For example, in 2015 he investigated and dismissed two American prelates, Bishop Robert Finn and Archbishop John Nienstedt, who had been accused of covering up for abusive priests.
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Only in the extreme west of Europe is the piece linked with Christian prelates; the other languages which call the piece a "bishop" are Icelandic, Faroese, Irish and Portuguese.
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My journey, and the journey for victims everywhere in the church, will be made easier when actions are taken that condemn those, especially prelates, who took our innocence away.
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Some 6,000 miles away in Rome, bishops, indigenous leaders and NGO representatives from the Amazon basin, together with Vatican prelates, are discussing how the Catholic church can do just that.
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Many Catholics question whether their leader understands the degree of public outrage over clerical sex abuse, and particularly over the efforts of some high-ranking prelates to protect predatory priests.
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But to enable such a pact the Vatican is rumoured to have already granted forgiveness to Bishop Lei and the six other government-approved prelates it had refused to recognise.
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One of Iraq's leading Christian prelates, Chaldean Cardinal Louis Sako, publicly criticized the United States in October for failing to meet its promise to aid persecuted religious minorities in Iraq.
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Scrutiny of the church has increased in the last year as some of its top prelates, including cardinals in the United States and Australia, have been publicly disgraced as abusers.
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There is a sizable faction of traditionalist prelates who have resisted the pope's moves to liberalize the church to accommodate modern attitudes — which they see as a weakening of doctrine.
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After lunch, the production crew led a procession of pretend prelates, Swiss Guards, nuns and Vatican gendarmes under the arches of the Passetto di Borgo and across Via dei Corridori.
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On last month's African tour, he was encouraged by the warm response of ordinary people in Mozambique and Madagascar, counterbalancing the unhappiness over his liberal stance among some African prelates.
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The incumbent is one of three prelates with an automatic seat in the Privy Council, an inner circle of advisers to the Queen that also includes political leaders and top judges.
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Madonna is famed for her hits, "Like A Virgin" and "Material Girl", but some of her music videos used religious symbols in ways the Roman Catholic prelates found offensive and disrespectful.
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Burke: Yes, it's clear to me that the corruption goes back several decades: It has to, when we have these notorious cases of prelates who abused minors back into the 1940s.
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With nine candidates in the running — including some prominent prelates — it was the day's most closely watched vote, especially since the vice president is traditionally elevated to president in three years.
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Conservative prelates who have fought those changes have accused the pope of covering up accusations that the previous archbishop of Washington, the former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, sexually harassed and abused seminarians.
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Among the most powerful of African-born prelates is Cardinal Robert Sarah, who grew up in Guinea under a harsh Marxist dictatorship and developed a strong antipathy to left-wing authoritarianism.
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It was his review board that substantiated decades-old abuse allegations against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick last summer, leading to the downfall of one of the nation's most powerful prelates.
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But for what is sure to be a defining struggle of his papacy, he will need to look beyond the cardinals, prelates and priests — indeed beyond himself — for answers and solutions.
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The ranks of papal skeptics are filled with Africans and Latin Americans as well as North Americans and Europeans, with prelates and theologians and laypeople of diverse economic and political perspectives.
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The bank had been caught in previous years in cases of corruption, tax evasion, embezzlement, money laundering and real estate fraud, some involving top officials and prelates, damaging the Vatican's ethical credentials.
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If the conference produces radical action to deal with the misdeeds, not just of priests but of the prelates who covered up for them, then the pope can perhaps turn the tide.
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The prelates joined Venezuela's legislators in demanding that January 23rd should be a starting-point for democratic change in the country, just as it was in 1958 when a dictatorship was overthrown.
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Bishop Farrell is among the few prelates in the United States to issue emphatic pleas for gun control, a surprising move for a bishop based in the open-carry state of Texas.
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At the news conference, Bishop John Hsane Hgyi of Pathein, Myanmar, was asked whether the pope had requested that he and other prelates concern themselves with the crisis in western Rakhine State.
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Church law requires every bishop to tender his resignation at that age, but the pope can choose not to accept it, often allowing prelates to remain in office for several more years.
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Church law requires every bishop to tender his resignation at that age, but the pope can choose not to accept it, often allowing prelates to remain in office for several more years.
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Criticism reached a fever pitch last summer, when the Pennsylvania attorney general released a scathing grand jury report and prelates in Francis' own hierarchy also accused him of covering up for abusers.
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Mr Ivereigh believes that in future, bishops from the United States will be invited to join any important deliberation of prelates from Latin America, as happened at a gathering in Colombia this year.
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The Russian government and Moscow Patriarchate have lamented loudly that Moscow-aligned prelates, clergy and monastics are coming under pressure from the state authorities in Ukraine to switch sides in this escalating contest.
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A Vatican official said Monday's move represented a first step toward re-ordering the battered Roman Catholic Church in Chile and that the pope was still considering the positions of the other prelates.
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In addition to hailing one another as Christian shepherds, the two prelates duly issued a joint statement which had been carefully prepared by their respective diplomatic services, both of which are pretty slick.
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" Mr. Bermúdez said the pope was promoting prelates from many smaller dioceses — not only in the United States, but also in Venezuela and Mexico — who are "the classic Pope Francis-type of bishops.
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Frequently called "Law and Order" by the secular press, the two politically savvy prelates denounced Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro, a Catholic and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1984, for supporting abortion rights.
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The rupture of 1054 was between Rome and the Patriarchate of Constantinople, modern Istanbul, an ancient see whose incumbent is still considered the "first among equals" among the prelates of the Orthodox Christian world.
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Italians have traditionally provided the Church with the majority of its cardinals, but Francis has tended to look further afield for his top prelates, passing Italy over altogether in his consistory a year ago.
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The secretary of the Congregation for Saints brings together six or seven experts from different fields, as well as three prelates who represent the Roman curia—the secretary, the undersecretary, and someone taking notes.
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Standing next to the de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and before military officials, prelates, and diplomats, he avoided directly addressing the situation of the persecuted Rohingya minority, or even mentioning their name.
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Catholic Whistleblowers, a group of priests, nuns and other advocates for victims of abuse, said it had sent the Vatican documentation on three particularly egregious prelates among dozens under suspicion, and heard nothing back.
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Pope Francis wrote to Milan's outgoing Archbishop Angelo Scola and his successor Mario Delpini to express his condolences over the departure of one of "the most loveable and beloved" prelates of the Milanese diocese.
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Regaining credibility among the church laity requires clear and timely investigation and punishment of prelates who covered up the rape of children with hush money and rotated abusers to new parishes to commit fresh crimes.
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Francis has not inspired much more confidence on that score: he has tended to be dismissive of, and sometimes even hostile toward, the critics of bishops and other prelates who enabled decades of wicked behavior.
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Civil investigations into abuse by Catholic clerics in the United States, Australia, Chile, France and other countries had exposed once again the systemic problem of abusive priests exploiting their office and prelates covering up misconduct.
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Francis seems to have finally begun enacting zero tolerance toward prelates accused of sexual abuse of minors, a policy that he had long promised but that his critics had said he had failed to impose.
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Sister Veronica Openibo, a Nigerian who has worked in Africa, Europe and the United States, spoke with a soft voice but delivered a strong message, telling the prelates sitting before her: "This storm will not pass".
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The decision announced in Istanbul stops short of recognising the existence of a Kiev Patriarchate, but it restores the two breakaway prelates to their full priestly rank and their followers to full communion with the church.
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The offer of mass resignations on Friday by the bishops summoned to Rome marks the first time that all the senior Roman Catholic prelates of a country have taken such a step, a Vatican official said.
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One Nigerian woman told the audience of Catholic prelates, Muslim imams and royals that she hoped the knowledge she gained at the institute would enable her to turn more people away from violent extremism at home.
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After Pope John Paul died in 21986, Cardinal Law was one of nine prelates who presided at the funeral Masses and among the 21989 cardinals who elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
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It means that the inspiring words of prelates, priests and patriarchs are filtering down to a place where finite resources have to be allocated and hard choices have to be made: the terrain where we all live.
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But that will meet a cautious response from prelates from the poor world, who say law-enforcement systems in their countries are cruel or corrupt and that the church must also protect itself from an abusive state.
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Vigano is part of a small, vocal group of conservative prelates, most of them retired or sidelined by Francis, who have balked at his calls for the Church to be more welcoming to homosexuals and divorced Catholics.
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Archbishop Viganò has aligned himself with a conservative group of powerful prelates, in both the Vatican and the United States, who have seized on the clerical sex abuse scandal to try to damage Francis and his agenda.
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Earlier this year, Francis himself first strongly defended a bishop in Chile who had been accused of covering up abuse, only later to launch an inquiry and accept the resignation of that bishop and other prelates there.
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Since only cardinals aged under 80 can enter a secret conclave to choose a new pope from their own ranks after Francis dies or resigns, the new members will join the ranks of prelates known as "cardinal electors".
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday named 216 Roman Catholic prelates from around the world to the high rank of cardinal, including 217 who are under 80 years old and thus eligible to succeed him one day.
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In its boldest move, the Istanbul-based synod formally rehabilitated two Ukrainian prelates who had been excommunicated by the Patriarchate of Moscow and are seen as key figures in the establishment of a legitimate national church in Kiev.
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Christians in Iraq and Pakistan have faced death and discrimination in recent years, something Francis has repeatedly railed against, and by elevating prelates from those two nations he is sending a strong message of support to local churches.
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If they get that far into the communiqué, and can read its subtext, ordinary Christian believers may be dismayed at the way in which earthly disputes cast such a shadow over prelates who are supposed to look heavenward.
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In Western countries, Christian prelates certainly do enter public debates, but whether from the right or the left, their contribution is often self-consciously secular; it focuses on matters of law and economics rather than morals or metaphysics.
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Archbishop Viganò's letter, while especially inconvenient for the pope, who spent Sunday morning praying for abuse victims at a shrine in Knock, Ireland, also goes after a broad array of current and past Vatican officials and American prelates.
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In the most extreme scenario, traditionalist prelates might formally declare that Francis had lost all moral authority and start consecrating like-minded bishops without papal approval, as Marcel Lefebvre, an ultra-conservative French archbishop, did in the 1980s.
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"How do you get to be a bishop if you have to be given an education about the rape of a child?" he said, after he met on Wednesday with Father Zollner and the prelates organizing the conference.
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Despite justifiably high expectations of the laity that the abuse nightmare would finally be reined in, the focus was inexplicably modest, limited to sensitizing developing-world prelates to the suffering the scandal generates and best practices for responding.
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Although he could "totally respect" the authority of Catholic bishops when they speak on issues of religious doctrine, he has said he feels free to disagree with the prelates about practical matters that have nothing to do with doctrine.
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Australians have been alarmed by revelations of sexual abuse in recent years, including a scandal in Ballarat, the hometown of Cardinal George Pell, one of the highest-ranking Catholic prelates to face trial for charges of historic sexual offenses.
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Cardinal Burke and his fellow ultraconservative prelates are working to extend ecclesiastical cover to nationalist politicians by hailing them as champions for Western Christianity and traditional values in the face of what they suggest is a Muslim migrant invasion.
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In responding to a longstanding concern about the dearth of priests in a region where competition from evangelical Protestants is increasingly strong, 181 voting bishops and other prelates recommended that the church ordain to the priesthood older men of proven character.
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" The story of Francis's papacy is in part a regional story: prelates from wealthier European countries, where ancient cathedrals increasingly sit empty, have, in their eagerness to encourage congregants to return, been more likely to support the liberal interpretations of "Amoris.
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Aggressive prosecutions of prelates in Australia, police raids on the offices of an American diocese, and a large-scale investigation in England have led some experts to note that civil authorities no longer appear to see church leaders as untouchable.
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At the news conference, the prelates tasked by the pope with organizing the meeting spoke of the need to hold bishops accountable for addressing the problem, and stated that homosexuality was not a cause of the abuse of minors by priests.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis is to elevate five Roman Catholic prelates from outside Italy and the Vatican to the rank of cardinal, the elite group of churchmen who are his closest advisers and can enter a conclave to choose his successor.
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Two weeks after one of the country's best-known prelates handed in his cardinal's hat, amid allegations of molesting young men, a report has documented in sickening detail the sexual crimes that were perpetrated by over 503 priests in Pennsylvania over 70 years.
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Earlier this week, one of the most eminent scholar-prelates in the Christian world, and one of Britain's leading Muslim scholars, held a kind of public debate in London on the role of religion in society, and they agreed on almost everything.
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The report implicates some prelates: Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who served as the bishop of Pittsburgh before becoming archbishop of Washington, D.C., repeatedly allowed accused priests to remain in ministry, usually at the recommendation of the church's own treatment centers for abusive priests.
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Archbishop Tobin, whose formal title is now cardinal-designate, is replacing Archbishop John J. Myers, a conservative who is among a small minority of American prelates who announced long ago that Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should not receive Holy Communion.
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Not three weeks later, Ms. Alazraki was again sharing the stage with the pope, this time during a Vatican meeting on the clerical abuse of minors, where she delivered a stern dressing-down to the 200 or so prelates in the audience.
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The newish cardinal is described as a combative, in-the-trenches character by people who know him, and his rapport with Francis, going back to Latin American bishops' conferences over many years, creates a useful channel of communication between Francis and the country's unhappy prelates.
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He offered guidelines for discerning an apparition: that the messages "conform to faith and good morals"; that the seer be "credible, disinterested, balanced"; that the message not deviate from church teachings or the instructions of prelates; and that conversions or healings result from the experience.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. For decades, Archbishop Romero's legacy was obstructed because several powerful prelates saw him as a proponent of liberation theology, a movement focused on the poor that had been spawned by the church's discussions on social justice in the 1960s.
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On the eve of the synod, the pope will raise to the rank of cardinal 13 prelates who broadly share his vision of the church, one that eschews confrontation with other cultures and religions but challenges the perceived arrogance of the historically Christian world.
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Whether he had in mind priests who have sexually abused children was not clear, but his message might not be welcomed by victims and other critics who say the church has been far too forgiving of those priests and the prelates who have protected them.
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In other signs of rising contention, posters attacking the pope appeared on walls in the centre of Rome on February 4th; and on February 13th, a group of senior prelates who are advising the pope on reforming the Vatican administration issued a statement of unconditional backing.
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On Sunday, he put three on his list, but, in what is becoming something of a hallmark, he ignored some prelates based in major cities which traditionally have cardinals, like Turin and Venice, turning instead to smaller hubs - in this case the central city of L'Aquila.
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"I want to again express my closeness to those suffering from the coronavirus and the health care workers who are treating them," Francis said Wednesday after shaking hands with prelates and the faithful in the front rows of a crowd in which few people wore masks.
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He is the first active bishop to be accused of abusing a minor in the wave of abuse allegations that began in June with the news that one of the nation's top prelates, retired Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, had been accused of assaulting an altar boy in the 1970s.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he had chosen 14 men to be the newest cardinals in the Catholic Church, among them his chief aide for helping Rome's homeless and poor, as well as prelates based in Iraq and Pakistan, where Christians are a vulnerable minority.
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Greeting Francis on behalf of all 17 prelates, Archbishop Zenari recalled places where "the unlucky" were left for dead on the streets of their villages and neighborhoods "or under the rubble of their homes and schools because of the brutal violence and bloody, inhuman and inextricable conflicts there."
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Victims and faithful Catholics alike must then hope and trust that the church's current procedures are enough to prevent future outbreaks of abuse—that the Vatican takes the problem seriously, though its prelates and even the pope either contribute to the problem or respond tepidly to its moral and criminal outrages.
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And this argument has been, relatively speaking, a success, in the sense that it persuaded a great many prelates to effectively oppose the will of the pope himself at the last two synods, which limited Francis's ability to make the kind of explicit changes that Cardinal Walter Kasper urged, with a papal blessing, on the church.
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Speaking in somber tones, he spoke of "shame because so many people, even some of your (God's) ministers, have let themselves be deceived by ambition and vainglory, thereby losing their worthiness .. " Since his election in 2013, Francis has often urged Catholic priests and prelates to live simply, to serve others, and not to seek careers and status in the Church or in society at large.
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But other prelates and advocates of survivors of sexual abuse believe that this visit, coinciding as it does with new and explosive revelations of sexual abuse and cover-ups in the United States, Chile and Ireland, presents Francis with a providential opportunity to acknowledge the systematic sins of the church hierarchy and Vatican bureaucracy in keeping abuses secret, and actually introduce measures to do something about it.
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Liberals got a permission slip to experiment, conservatives got to keep the letter of the law, and the world's bishops were left to essentially choose their own teaching on marriage, adultery and the sacraments – which indeed many have done in the last year, tilting conservative in Philadelphia and Poland, liberal in Chicago or Germany or Argentina, with inevitable dust-ups between prelates who follow different interpretations of Amoris.
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For all his professions of horror at the revelations about predatory priests whose activities were covered up by the hierarchy — and for all his other admirably enlightened and pastoral actions — it seems the pope has yet to fully appreciate that the abuse of minors is not simply a matter of a few deviant priests protected by overzealous prelates but of his church's acceptance of a horrible violation of a most sacred trust: that of a devout and questioning youth and a spiritual guide.
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