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While much attention has been focused on the Vatican’s new norms to cover clerical sex abuse — norms that are due out any day now — Catholic News Service reports that another item may also be covered: The Vatican is preparing to update the 2001 norms that deal with priestly sex abuse of minors, in…

Days after a teacher in India was brutally attacked, his family is offering words of forgiveness: The family of a professor in southern India whose hand was cut off by suspected Islamic extremists have told the BBC they forgive his attackers. Professor TJ Joseph was attacked by eight people on Sunday as he was returning…

He may be the most unusual priest in all of Mexico — but he speaks to his flock in a language they understand. His story, from the New York Times: Frederick Loos was cussing like a sailor the other night, which was surprising given that he is a Roman Catholic priest and his foul-mouthed discourse…

It happened in India: Suspected Islamic militants have chopped off a Catholic professor’s hand in Kerala for allegedly insulting Islam in an exam question paper. Professor T.J. Joseph was attacked on July 4 in while returning home from Sunday mass with his mother and sister, a Catholic nun. Kochi inspector-general of police, B. Sandya, told…
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