Association Of Catholic Priests

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  Irish Gay Marriage Vote Reflects Church in Decline

  Friday's vote on legalising same-sex marriage in Ireland is a further sign of the waning influence of the once-dominant Catholic Church, experts said.

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  Latin America's First Women Priests Challenge the Church

  Olga Lucia Alvarez, a Colombian septuagenarian, says it is her vocation to be a Catholic priest, and she is not going to let gender or excommunication stop her from preaching the gospel.

• South Korea: Catholicism's Unlikely Asian Pillar

  When Pope Francis visits South Korea this week, he will find a thriving Catholic community with a social and political influence that belies its minority status in one of Christianity's most muscular Asian strongholds.

• Polish Church Apologises for Child Sex Abuse

  Leaders of Poland's Catholic Church have apologised to the victims of child sex abuse by priests and admitted they have long ignored the problem.

• Seven Priests Suspended in Mexico Pending Abuse Probe

  The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico confirmed on Friday that it has suspended seven priests, including one accused of abuse while serving in Los Angeles, from its diocese in the border city of Tijuana pending an investigation into alleged sexual harassment and abuse.

• Arrest Made in Priest Attacks at US Church

  Police say they've made an arrest in the killing of a Roman Catholic priest and the beating of a second priest at a church in downtown Phoenix.

• 30 Killed at Central African Republic Church: Priest

  Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, killing as many as 30 people in a hail of gunfire and grenades, witnesses said.

• Puerto Rico Priest Faces Charges for Sexual Trafficking of Children

  U.S. authorities in Puerto Rico on Tuesday arrested a Roman Catholic priest and former school director on charges including sexual trafficking of children in the first federal case of its kind in the U.S. territory.

• US priest in abuse case to be released from prison

  A Roman Catholic Church official in the U.S. is set to leave prison after winning an appeal of his landmark conviction in a priest-abuse scandal.

• Spain police arrest Irish priest for child abuse

  Spanish police have arrested an 85-year-old Irish Roman Catholic priest suspected of sexually abusing three altar boys in Britain over many years.

• Pope is asked to make priestly celibacy optional

  She uses a wheelchair and carries the weight of her 87 years, but Clelia Luro feels powerful enough to make the Roman Catholic Church pay attention to her campaign to end priestly celibacy.

• Australia arrests priest on child abuse charges

  Australian police arrested a Roman Catholic priest on child abuse charges on Monday, following months of negotiations to have him returned from the Vatican.

• Pope Benedict XVI marks 50th anniversary of Vatican II

  Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council; the church meetings he attended as a young priest that brought the Catholic Church into the modern world but whose true meaning is still hotly debated.

• Anatomy of Vatican scandal: How the butler did it

  He had the trust of Pope Benedict XVI and the cardinals, monsignors and priests who run the Roman Catholic Church. And because of his privileged position as papal butler, he had access to their deepest secrets: confidential letters, memos, financial reports.

• 21 Catholic priests named in sex report suspended

  The Philadelphia archdiocese suspended 21 Roman Catholic priests on Tuesday who were named as child molestation suspects in a scathing grand jury report last month. It is a decision that comes more than eight years after US bishops pledged swift action to keep potential abusers away from young people.The priests have been removed from ministry whil...