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By NEW YORK (CNS) -- New YorkCardinal Timothy M. Dolan said Oct. 6 he hopes a new archdiocesan program toprovide compensation to survivors of clergy sexual abuse will "help bring ameasure of peace and healing" to those victims.He announced the new voluntaryIndependent Reconciliation and Compensation Program for those who have survivedabuse by priests or deacons of the archdiocese.At a news conference, he saidthat while the Catholic Church, and the New York Archdiocese in particular, "hasmade great strides" in addressing abuse, "we continue to hear fromvictim-survivors that more needs to be done to reach out to those who have beenhurt in the past."Cardinal Dolan noted that NewYork church officials have been working with 10 district attorneys who serve inthe area covered by the archdiocese, which has dismissed clergy found guilty ofabuse and put in place safe environment programs to prevent abuse.The new program is "another step"in efforts "to respond to the past scourge of sexual abu...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new study finds that great apes show some key abilities to see the world from someone else's point of view - a trait that once was considered uniquely human....
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Three-quarters of a century after he was killed during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the remains of a young Navy sailor finally are heading home to Kansas....
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) -- The man who stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall had become interested in Islam in the last several months, withdrew from his friends and encouraged female relatives to be more religious, the FBI said Thursday....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Despite objections from religious hard-liners, lawmakers Thursday took the first significant move to curb mounting numbers of "honor" killings in Pakistan, stiffening the penalties and closing a loophole that allowed such killers to go free....
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) -- Haitian officials on Thursday dramatically raised the known death toll from Hurricane Matthew as they finally began to reach corners of the country that had been cut off by the rampaging storm....
MIAMI (AP) -- The Latest on Hurricane Matthew and Tropical Storm Nicole (all times local):...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Leaving more than 100 dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew steamed toward heavily populated Florida with terrifying winds of 140 mph Thursday, and 2 million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland....
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican Museums has installed 18 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and trained 300 staff in their use to become the first museum in Italy to be “Heart Friendly,” in order to provide greater protection to the 6 million people who visit the Museums every year.The programme – explained on Wednesday – was created in collaboration with the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital and the Department of Health and Welfare of the Governorate of Vatican City State, with training supervised by the American Heart Association.“For us, it is an honour and a duty to make available to the Vatican Museums our years of expertise to help protect the lives of the thousands of people who each day admire the masterpieces preserved in this place,” said Mariella Enoc, the President of the Bambino Gesù.This video from the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital demonstrates the use of the AED in the Vatican MuseumsThe AED ...
(Vatican Radio) Children across Syria have signed a petition calling for peace in their homeland that will be delivered to the EU headquarters in Brussels and the United Nations headquarters in Geneva. Called “Peace for Syria,” the petition has been signed by young Catholics and Orthodox Christians from 6 Syrian cities and will be delivered to the EU and the UN buildings by three Patriarchs.Aleppo divided into 2 halves like a new BerlinMeanwhile, daily life in the fiercely contested Syrian city of Aleppo becomes worse by the day. In an interview with Vatican Radio, the Maronite Archbishop of Aleppo, Joseph Tobji said nowhere is safe in the war-torn Syrian city which he called a “new Berlin” on account of being divided into two opposing halves. The archbishop described how the residents of Aleppo are living with death on a daily basis as a result of the frequent bombardments and shelling, saying they celebrate at least 10 funerals every day for those k...
