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Focus of Summit turns to accountability, bishops, and footnotes

February 22, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 8

(ROME – February 22nd, 2019) The participants in the Vatican’s meeting on child protection are serious and determined. Just what it is, about which they are serious and determined is a different question, with objects […]

Day 1 of Vatican summit features peremptory points, harrowing testimonies

February 21, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 15

(February 21st, 2019 — Rome) The highest-level Catholic meeting on the most terrible ecclesiastical crisis in 500 years opened in Rome on Thursday in the almost surreal conditions created by a heady atmosphere of intense […]