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The Vatican announced on Saturday that Pope Francis has reduced two Chilean bishops to the lay state. One of the defrocked is an 85-year-old man reported now to be suffering senile dementia, Francisco José Cox […]

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Some liberal liturgists have suggested that the new English translation of the Mass will cause widespread anger amongst the laity. That hasn’t happened in Australia, according to Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, where the new translation was introduced […]

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