Vatican News
Vatican News
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Tagle: Confront the 'stench of filth' caused by abuse
Vatican City, Feb 21, 2019 / 05:30 pm (CNA).- An expert on abuse prevention offered “practical suggestions” to participants at a Vatican summit on child sexual abuse on
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Polish sex abuse victims meet Pope Francis, release abuse report
Vatican City, Feb 21, 2019 / 02:16 pm (CNA).- A Polish delegation of sex abuse victims and advocates met Pope Francis Wednesday, and presented the pope with a report documenting
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Pope proposes 21 'reflection points' for discussion at abuse summit
Vatican City, Feb 21, 2019 / 11:56 am (CNA).- Pope Francis on Thursday gave participants in a Vatican summit on protection of minors in the Church a list of nearly two dozen
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Francis opens abuse summit with call for 'concrete measures'
Vatican City, Feb 21, 2019 / 04:20 am (CNA).- At the start of the Vatican’s sex abuse summit Thursday, Pope Francis pointed to expectations for the meeting to produce
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Review: Not much substance 'In the Closet of the Vatican'
Vatican City, Feb 21, 2019 / 04:00 am (CNA).- “In the closet of the Vatican,” a newly released book by the French author and LGBT activist Frederic Martel, is generating
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Victims from Africa, Asia at Vatican to call for 'zero tolerance' of abuse cover-up
Vatican City, Feb 20, 2019 / 04:40 pm (CNA).- While studying at an African minor seminary at the age of 14, Benjamin Kitobo says he was abused by a Belgian priest, who had been sent
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Dubia cardinals ask bishops to confront ‘conspiracy of silence’
Vatican City, Feb 20, 2019 / 03:30 pm (CNA).- Catholic bishops around the world need to combat the homosexual agenda in the Church, two cardinals said in an open letter addressed to
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In private meeting, victims tell leaders of abuse summit: 'We want action'
Vatican City, Feb 20, 2019 / 03:10 pm (CNA).- About a dozen victims of clergy sexual abuse met Wednesday with the organizing committee of the Vatican sex abuse summit, expressing
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Vatican spokesman shifts focus to summit follow-up before abuse meeting begins
Vatican City, Feb 20, 2019 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- The Vatican has continued to downplay expectations ahead of a summit meeting of bishops in Rome to discuss the ongoing sexual abuse
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Only God loves perfectly, Pope Francis says
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We, at St Simon Peter Parish, are a Catholic family
called through Baptism
to know, love and serve God and neighbour.
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We strive to witness the Kingdom of God
through proclaiming the Good News of Jesus,
celebrating the Sacraments, and serving the wider community,
especially the disconnected from our Parish.
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