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Catholic Leaders Promised Transparency About Child Abuse. In Florida and Elsewhere, They Haven’t Delivered.

February 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Where's the transparency? (Ian Sane)

After decades of shielding the identities of accused child abusers from the public, many Catholic leaders are now releasing lists of their names. But the lists are inconsistent, incomplete and omit key details.

Attorney General Launches Investigation of Catholic Priests’ Child Sex Abuse in All 7 Florida Dioceses

October 7, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is leaving office in January due to term limits, said it is too early to know how many Floridians, former residents or visitors may have been molested.

Don’t Tell Rick Scott: Pope Francis Wants Action on Global Warming, Steaming Conservatives

May 7, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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Pope Francis’s call for action against global warming has many conservatives in the US up in arms, but his message is a matter of morality, argues Jeffrey Sachs.

Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio is Francis I, Church’s First Non-European Pope, Post-Columbus

March 13, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

76-year-old Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires is the first-ever South American pope, the first non-European pope in a millennium, and the first-ever pope to name himself Francis (Francis I), after St. Francis, patron saint of the poor.

Another Catholic Ban for “The Laramie Project”

March 26, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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A Catholic school in New Jersey is banning a student production of “The Laramie Project,” the play about a town’s psychology following the murder of a gay student in Wyoming in 1998.

The Pill, the President, the Policy: a Primer

February 12, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

The Obama administration is revising contraceptive-pill insurance regulations so that religious-affiliated groups don’t have to pay for the coverage. A primer on the controversy and the policy.

Florida Senate Approves School Prayer Bill, 31-8

February 2, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The school prayer bill’s approval overrides objections of senators who said the measure will lead to prayers at school events that students can’t get out of, including possibly in classes, and that some students will have to listen to prayers or risk being ostracized because they come from a different religious tradition.

Co-Pay Interruptus: Catholic Bishops Will Sue Feds Over Contraception and Insurance Rules

January 22, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is promising a legal challenge to federal rules requiring health insurers to provide women with a range of preventive health services, including birth control, without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or deductible.

Flouting the First:
Florida’s Slouch Back To Religious Favoritism

January 16, 2012 | Pierre Tristam | 6 Comments

Florida’s proposed “Religious Freedom” amendment and a bill that would enable prayer at public school events project the false impression that religious expression in the public sphere is under siege, when the reverse is closer to the mark–as a bias particularly favoring Christianity.

What’s the State of Ecumenism in Flagler (And What on Earth is Ecumenism Anyway)?

June 4, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Saturday evening’s music and fellowship program at Santa Maria del Mar brings together six churches and five denominations in a historic display of unity in Flagler County.

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