Religion
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Why critics distrust the archdiocese processJan 04, 2015 6:30 am - What makes an allegation of sexual abuse against a priest credible is the heart of the disagreement between the Chicago Archdiocese and victims' advocates. Victims' atto...
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Priests, employees and volunteers subject to archdiocese compliance standardsJan 04, 2015 6:30 am - Clergy, full- and part-time employees, and volunteers who work with children within the Archdiocese of Chicago are subject to these compliance standards, overseen by the...
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How the archdiocese is working to prevent abuseJan 04, 2015 6:00 am - It was 25 years after he was abused by a Catholic priest that Mike Hoffman finally decided to tell someone. In 2006, he was reading a newspaper article about victims of ...
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Illness can be reminder of our mortalityJan 04, 2015 12:01 am - I don't do "sick" well. Probably part of it is that I enjoy living life as fully as I can and being sick gets in the way of all the things I like to do. Of course, it m...
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Pope picks 15 new cardinals to reflect diversityJan 04, 2015 12:01 am - VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis named 15 new cardinals Sunday, selecting them from 14 nations, including far-flung corners of the world such as Tonga, New Zealand, Cape Verd...
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Expansion plans announced for Bald Knob CrossJan 02, 2015 12:01 am - ALTO PASS, Ill. - Members of the board in charge of the Bald Knob Cross of Peace plan to expand the site and hire an executive director for the 11-story cross atop the t...
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Cardinal George taken off experimental cancer treatmentDec 31, 2014 12:01 am - Cardinal Francis George, who retired last month after Archbishop Blase Cupich was installed as his successor, has been dropped from the clinical trial group that was bei...
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'Today is a good day for a good day'Dec 30, 2014 12:01 am - "Taking paths which he prepared ahead of time, that we should walk in them living the good life which he prearranged and made ready for us to live." - Ephesians 2:10 (...
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John Paul II gunman lays flowers at Vatican tombDec 27, 2014 12:01 am - VATICAN CITY - The Turkish gunman who shot and wounded John Paul II in 1981 laid white flowers Saturday on the saint's tomb in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican officials sa...
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Church that served blacks off endangered listDec 26, 2014 12:01 am - WEST BADEN SPRING, Ind. - A nearly century-old church in southern Indiana that served blacks who migrated north for jobs at the area's resort hotels has been taken off t...