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Pope Elevates 13 New Cardinals Then Puts Them in Their Place
Pope Francis has raised 13 new cardinals to the highest rank in the Catholic hierarchy during a formal ceremony marked from beginning to end by the coronavirus pandemic
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DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory Becomes First African American Cardinal
Pope Francis elevated Archbishop of Washington Wilton Gregory to cardinal. Gregory is the first African American in Catholic history to hold the rank. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.
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Pope Names Washington Archbishop as First Black American Cardinal
Pope Francis will elevate Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory to a cardinal, making Gregory the first Black cardinal in the U.S. News4’s Derrick Ward explains the significance of the appointment, and has reaction from Washington Catholics.
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Survey Gives Insight on Social Issues Facing Catholic Church
An NBC survey tackles questions Catholics have grappled with for years. Investigative Reporter Jodie Fleischer reports on the answers and reaction to them.
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Church Envoy Begs McCarrick to Repent as Abuse Verdict Nears
The retired Vatican diplomat who accused Pope Francis of turning a blind eye to the alleged sexual misconduct of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is begging the American to publicly repent for his crimes for the good of the Catholic Church.
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Italy Declares State of Emergency in Venice After High Tides
Italy’s government declared a state of emergency Thursday in flood-ravaged Venice, seeking to release funds to repair the historic lagoon city after it was damaged by the highest tide in 50 years. A cabinet meeting approved a special decree that included 20 million euros ($21.7 million) in immediate financial aid aimed at helping the city recover. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte...
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Most Overrated? Mattis Laughs Off Trump Barb at Charity Gala
Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is laughing off an insult hurled at him by President Donald Trump. Speaking at a New York charity event Thursday the day after Trump demeaned him as “the world’s most overrated general,” Mattis joked that he took it as a compliment. “I’m not just an overrated general. I’m the greatest, the world’s most overrated,”...
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Baby Archie Makes Rare Public Appearance in South Africa
Baby Archie made a rare public appearance on Wednesday as his parents, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, continued their first official tour as a family in South Africa. Meghan held Archie as the royal couple met with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town. The youngest member of Britain’s royal family had been...
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Unity Walk Highlights DC's Different Faiths
Hundreds of people of different religions came together in D.C. Sunday for a Unity Walk. News4’s Darcy Spencer explains what organizers hoped they would take away from the experience.
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Australian Court Upholds Sex Abuse Verdict of Cardinal Pell
An Australian appeals court Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children, in a decision cheered by scores of abuse survivors and victims’ advocates demonstrating outside the court. A unanimous jury in December found Pope Francis’ former finance minister guilty of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s...
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Indiana School Firing Gay Teacher to Keep Archdiocese Ties
The Indianapolis archbishop has forced a Catholic high school to fire a gay teacher, just days after another school in the city defied a similar order despite church officials saying they would no longer recognize it as Catholic.
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Greek Orthodox Church in US Gets 1st New Leader in 20 Years
The Greek Orthodox church of the United States, a far-flung denomination of 1.5-million members, on Saturday installed its first new leader in 20 years — a lifelong European whose top priority is completing construction of a shrine in New York City linked to the Sept. 11 attacks. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, 51, a native of Istanbul and a longtime theology professor in...
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Prosecutors Crack Down on Clergy Abuse as Bishops Gather
Hundreds of boxes. Millions of records. From Michigan to New Mexico this month, attorneys general are sifting through files on clergy sex abuse, seized through search warrants and subpoenas at dozens of archdioceses. They’re looking to prosecute, and not just priests. If the boxes lining the hallways of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s offices contain enough evidence, she said, she...
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New Washington Archbishop Celebrates First Sunday Mass
After formally being installed on Tuesday, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated his first Sunday Mass as the first African-American leader of Washington, D.C.’s Catholic community.
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Washington's New Archbishop Celebrates His First Mass
Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has become the first African-American leader of the capital’s Catholics. He celebrated his first Mass on Sunday. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.
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Archdiocese of Washington Installs First African-American Archbishop
The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., installed its first African-American archbishop on Tuesday.
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Archbishop Wilton Gregory Formally Installed
Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory officially became the first ever African-American Archbishop of Washington. News4’s David Culver reports.
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Archdiocese of Washington to Install First African-American
Archbishop Wilton Gregory will be installed as the first African-American leader for the archdiocese of Washington on Tuesday. The Church hopes he can help the archdiocese move past some recent sex abuse cover-up scandals.
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Lawsuit Seeks to Hold Vatican at Fault for Abuse by US Priests
Three brothers who were sexually abused by a priest from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Vatican, claiming the Holy See bears responsibility because the case was mishandled by former Archbishop John Nienstedt and the Vatican’s former ambassador to the United States. The lawsuit attempts to trace a direct line from clergy...