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Cardinal Blase Cupich, seen cradling a cross during a march against violence last year in Chicago, expressed "sorrow, disgust, outrage" last week in the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury investigation, which implicated priests with connections to the Ch

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'Moral Obligation': Illinois Attorney General To Meet With Dioceses On Alleged Abuse

11:07am August 24, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Lisa Madigan says a Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sex abuse "identifies at least seven priests with connections to Illinois." She says the Chicago Archdiocese has agreed to speak with her.

Pope Francis addresses the International Pilgrimage of the Ministrants last month in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican.

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Pope Francis On Clergy Sex Abuse: 'We Showed No Care For The Little Ones'

2:43pm August 20, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The pontiff's comments were in a letter penned nearly a week after a Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed decades of alleged child abuse and cover-ups. "We abandoned them," Francis wrote.

In his resignation letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, the Rev. Patrick Conroy noted that he was stepping down "as you have requested" and has since made it clear that he had no interest in leaving Capitol Hill.

Politics & Government
Religion

Ryan's Dismissal Of House Chaplain Sparks Outrage And Suspicion

4:58pm April 27, 2018

Speaker Paul Ryan's quiet firing of the House chaplain, the Rev. Patrick J. Conroy, has erupted into a partisan fight on Capitol Hill.

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