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Mourners call Australian Cardinal Pell victim of injustice

Archbishop Anthony Fisher, left, performs as principal celebrant of the requiem mass for Cardinal George Pell at St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Pell, who died last month at age 81, spent more than a year in prison before his sex abuse convictions were overturned in 2020. (Giovanni Portelli/Pool via AP)

Sydney, Australia AP Mourners at the Sydney funeral for Australian Cardinal George Pell, who was once the most senior Catholic convicted of sex abuse, remembered him Thursday as a victim of campaign to punish him regardless of his guilt. Meanwhile, a few hundred protesters yelled slogans from the street denouncing Pell, a staunch conservative who […]

Australia marks 25 years since worst mass shooting

Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia marked the 25th anniversary of the country’s worst mass shooting on Wednesday in which a lone gunman killed 35 people and forced authorities to implement some of the world’s toughest gun laws. Martin Bryant went on a shooting spree on 28th April, 1996 at a cafe and tourist site at the former […]

US Episcopal convention approves a ‘pastoral solution’ on same-sex marriage

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RNS Same-sex couples will now be able to marry in their home parish even if their local bishop has moral objections to gay marriage, Episcopal Church leaders decided on Friday. Meeting in Austin at their triennial convention, the House of Bishops and House of Deputies, the bicameral governing body of the church, approved the controversial […]