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in Colombia Throughout Colombia’s 40-year-old conflict, the church has often been the only channel of communication between warring factions. In isolated regions, priests fill a void left by the absence of state authority. “The church is the only institution that all sides respect,” said the Rev. Luis Ritmel, whose parish is in the jungles of…

Rod sometimes mentions his early days on AOL, experiencing the Catholic message boards there, and how contentious the whole scene was. I was around then too, intially thinking, “how great is this! Catholics from around the world conversing…” only to discover what Rod did…it took about a day for any single conversation to degenerate into…

More from the Dallas Morning News The Mexican bishop had trouble on his hands. An attacker had nearly killed one of his priests, whose sexual misconduct was well known to the bishop. And now villagers were telling police about a stream of young male visitors to the priest’s parish residence. The U.S. bishop had a…

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