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By most accounts, Pope Francis was elected with a mandate to reform the Roman Curia, the complex network of dicasteries, commissions and councils charged with the central administrative work of the Catholic Church — a network that, even to insiders and experts, more often resembles a rabbit warren than a well-defined system of governable offices with clear responsibilities.From the beginning Read More
The sexual abuse of nuns and religious women by Catholic priests and bishops — and the abortions that have sometimes resulted — has for years been overshadowed by other scandals in the Roman Catholic Church.That seemed to change this week when Pope Francis publicly acknowledged the problem for the first time."I was so happy," said Lucetta Scaraffia, the author of an ar Read More
