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Deacon Drake A. McCalister poses with Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton of Steubenville, Ohio, at Holy Family Church following his ordination as a transitional deacon June 29, 2018. Deacon McCalister has been given approval by the Vatican to be ordained to the priesthood for the Steubenville Diocese. Bishop Monforton will ordain his Dec. 19, 2019.

Former Pentecostal minister to be ordained priest

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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- Deacon Drake McCalister, a former Pentecostal minister, has been given approval by the Vatican to be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Steubenville.

Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., speaks during a news conference at the chancery Nov. 26, 2019, in Wheeling, W.Va.

Bishop asks predecessor to repay $792,000 to diocese

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WASHINGTON -- Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, has asked the former bishop of the diocese to pay back more than $792,000 to cover the "inappropriate expenditure of diocesan funds to support a luxurious lifestyle."

Activists in Mendoza, Argentina, embrace in a courthouse Nov. 25, 2019, after two priests were sentenced to more than 40 years in prison for abusing children at a school for the deaf.

Argentine priests sentenced for sexually abusing deaf schoolchildren

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MEXICO CITY -- An Argentine court has convicted a pair of priests of sexual abuse on charges of corrupting minors in a case involving crimes committed against 10 children in the care of a Catholic school for the deaf.

The Domus Sanctae Marthae guest house of Vatican City, where bishop Zanchetta had been residing, as seen from the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.

Bishop accused of abuse headed back to Argentina for court appearance

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VATICAN CITY -- Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta was set to leave Vatican City to present himself before judicial authorities in Argentina before a Nov. 28 deadline that, if ignored, could result in an arrest warrant.

Protesters block the entrance of the Central American University during a Nov. 19, 2019, protest against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, the capital. Supporters of Ortega Nov. 21 tried to enter St. John the Baptist Parish in Masaya, just south of Managua, forcing churchgoers to barricade the doors with pews.

Another Nicaraguan church besieged by pro-government mob

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MEXICO CITY -- Pro-government mobs besieged another Nicaraguan parish, further inflaming tensions between the Catholic Church and President Daniel Ortega, whose Sandinista regime is targeting dissidents and attempting to stamp out dissent.

Archbishop Charles Scicluna.

Abuse crisis far from over, says archbishop

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Catholics in the United States “have to be prepared for another wave of traumatic narrative” regarding the clergy sex abuse crisis, Archbishop Charles Scicluna said Nov. 13 at the University of Notre Dame.

Tzeltal women participate in their community’s assembly in Chiapas.

Mexican Indigenous seek a new path

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When the Zapatista Army rose up in Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas and captured the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas on New Year’s Day 1994, the Jesuits understood their frustrations and their hopes. But they had their doubts, too.

A group of people wait to receive news outside St. Francis Church in El Alto, Bolivia, Nov. 20, 2019. The church, located on the outskirts of Bolivia's capital city, became an improvised morgue Nov. 20, following another deadly day of protests in the South American country.

Church turned into morgue after violence in Bolivia

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A church located on the outskirts of Bolivia's capital city became an improvised morgue Nov. 20, following another deadly day of protests in the South American country.

Thousands of young people have participated in the excavation of a Byzantine church complex in Beit Shemesh, Israel, over the past three years.

Unearthed church sites show local Christians as pilgrims in Holy Land

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JERUSALEM -- Two unearthed Byzantine church complexes shed light on the tradition of Christian pilgrimage in the Holy Land.

Then-Pope John Paul II is seen in an undated photo embracing Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Archbishop Sheen, the famed media evangelist, mission promoter and author, who will be beatified Dec. 21, 2019, at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria, Ill.

Fulton Sheen upcoming beatification greeted with joy, thanksgiving

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PEORIA, Ill. -- With joy and thanksgiving, officials and faithful throughout the Diocese of Peoria and around the globe welcomed the announcement Nov. 18 that Pope Francis has called for the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in Peoria Dec. 21.

A statue of Mary is seen in 2017 atop the Cathedral of Managua in Nicaragua. On Nov. 18, 2019, a pro-government mob entered the cathedral, damaging property, attacking hunger strikers inside the building and jostling a priest and nun, the Archdiocese of Managua said.

Pro-government mob storms Managua cathedral, attacks hunger strikers

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MEXICO CITY -- Nicaraguan church authorities have reclaimed control of Immaculate Conception Cathedral in the national capital, Managua, after a pro-government mob burst into the building, which was hosting a group of mothers holding a hunger strike to demand the release of the political-prisoner children.

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