Catholic Church
Sweeney, prominent bishop challenge Catholic Church on action for workers
May 4, 2011Retired AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, one of the Catholic Church's most prominent laymen, and a bishop are challenging their church to live up to its own ideals on workers' rights.
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Bishops support collective bargaining
March 7, 2011Ohio's bishops are calling for their state's governor and legislature not to remove the right to collective bargaining for public workers, adding " the economy exists for the person, not the person for the economy."
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Celibacy, sexual abuse and the Catholic Church
April 20, 2010Getting married is a big deal.
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Satan, child abuse and the pope: an Irish view
April 7, 2010To say that the revelations concerning child abuse in the Catholic Church has rocked it to its very foundations would be an understatement.
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The Catholic sex abuse scandal: a victim’s view
December 11, 2009When we think of Ireland we often think of green fields, but recent reports, commissioned by the government and running thousands of pages, of the behavior of the Catholic Church paint a much darker picture.
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