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The judges of the Vatican City State criminal court—Venerando Marano, Giuseppe Pignatone and Carlo Bonzano—sit at a long table with a brown tablecloth in a makeshift court room.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The high-profile Vatican trial was put on hold after Vatican prosecutors failed to present their evidence to the defendants before submitting it in court.
FaithShort Take
J.D. Long García
While criticism can go too far, veering into open partisanship and misinformation, calling criticism of the church “the work of the devil” is not an avenue for dialogue.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
A Vatican tribunal absolved a former altar boy of charges that he molested a younger boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary, ruling Wednesday in the first clergy sexual abuse trial to be heard by the pope’s criminal court.
FaithIdeas
Jim McDermott
We are at a point where people of good will need to stop engaging with the MCU for a minute.
FaithFaith in Focus
Valerie Pavilonis
You would think that “sex abuse” could not become commonplace, but in our petitions, it has—until something like France happens.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis prayed for the tens of thousands of victims of clerical sexual abuse in France and urged the Catholic Church in the country to “undertake a path of redemption.”