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Transgender rights supporters protest in favour of Scottish gender reform bill outside Downing Street in London Jan. 17, 2023. A spokesman for Scotland's Catholic Church has welcomed the British government's veto of legislation allowing teenagers to change their sex in legal documentation via a simple self-declaration, and criticized Scottish politicians' "obsession with gender politics."

Scottish church condemns government's 'gender obsession' after rare reform veto

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A spokesman for Scotland's Catholic Church has welcomed the British government's veto of legislation allowing teenagers to change their legally documented sex via a simple self-declaration, and criticized Scottish politicians' "obsession with gender politics."

Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick arrives at Dedham District Court in Dedham, Mass., Sept. 3, 2021, after being charged with molesting a 16-year-old boy during a 1974 wedding reception. McCarrick's lawyers argue in a new court filing that the former Catholic archbishop is no longer mentally competent to stand trial.

McCarrick’s lawyers seek to prove disgraced former cardinal not competent to stand tria

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As Theodore McCarrick faces criminal charges for alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy, the disgraced former cardinal's legal defense team is now claiming he is in steep mental and physical decline and therefore not able to stand trial.

Sister André, a French Daughter of Charity who was the world's oldest known person, is pictured in an undated photo. Sister André died Jan. 17, 2023, at age 118 in a nursing home in Toulon, France.

Sister André, oldest known person in world, dies in France at age 118

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Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and the world's oldest known person, died at age 118, a spokesman of the nursing home where she died told AFP agency on Tuesday.

Demonstrators march during a protest by the Democratic Republic of Congo's Catholic and Protestant churches, against escalating violence in Kinshasa Dec. 4, 2022. Deadly violence hit Christians in Africa Jan. 15, 2023, with a Catholic priest in northern Nigeria burned to death and as many as 17 Christians killed in a blast in eastern DRC.

Catholic priest burned to death in Nigeria; other Christians in Congo killed

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Deadly violence hit Christians in Africa Jan. 15, with a Catholic priest in northern Nigeria burned to death and as many as 17 Christians killed in a blast in eastern Congo.

A poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping hangs next to a crucifix on the wall of the house of a Tibetan Catholic on Christmas Eve in Niuren village, in China's Yunnan province, in this Dec. 24, 2018, file photo.

U.S. religious liberty expert 'disappointed' in Vatican-China deal

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The United States' chief advocate for religious freedom expressed his "disappointment" in the Vatican over its provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops in the country.

Empty shelves in the shadow of a Christmas tree in a shop in the heavily-Armenian area of Artsakh.

Armenia struggles in Ukraine’s shadow

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It’s Jan. 5 — Christmas eve for Armenians — most of whom are members of the Armenian Apostolic Church, an Orthodox Christian denomination that celebrates Christmas on Jan. 6.

German Archbishop Georg Gänswein, private secretary of retired Pope Benedict XVI, is pictured in Bonn, Germany, March 16, 2019.

Aide’s book insists Benedict’s resignation one of free will

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Soon after Pope Benedict XVI was laid to rest in the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica, an Italian publisher released early copies of a book by the late pope’s secretary.

Australian Cardinal George Pell is pictured during the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican in this Oct. 6, 2014, file photo. The Spectator, a British magazine, published an article they said was submitted by Cardinal Pell shortly before he died criticizing the current synod on synodality as a "catastrophe."

Francis pontificate ‘a catastrophe,’ synod ‘toxic nightmare,’ Pell wrote

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Australian Cardinal George Pell, who died in Rome Jan. 10, never made a secret of his staunch adherence to established Catholic moral teaching and his concern about fellow cardinals and bishops he saw as willing to abandon that teaching.

Church needs to be in crypto conversation

Church needs to be in crypto conversation

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The recent collapse of a major cryptocurrency exchange proves the Catholic Church must “begin a conversation” on such technologies, a Catholic author and entrepreneur told OSV News.

Australian Cardinal George Pell celebrates the opening Mass of World Youth Day in Sydney July 15, 2008. Cardinal Pell, former prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy and archbishop of Sydney, died Jan. 10, 2023. He was 81.

Australian Cardinal Pell dies at 81

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Australian Cardinal George Pell, former prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy and archbishop of Sydney and of Melbourne, died Jan. 10 in Rome. He was 81. 

Father Jacques Mourad is pictured in a reception room at Our Lady of the Annunciation Church in Beirut in this Nov. 11, 2015, file photo. Members of the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch elected Msgr. Mourad as archbishop of Homs, Syria, and Pope Francis gave his assent to the election, the Vatican announced Jan. 7. The Syriac Catholic priest was held captive by the Islamic State group for nearly five months in 2015.

New Syriac Catholic archbishop of Homs survived ISIS kidnapping

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The new Syriac Catholic archbishop of Homs, Syria, had spent almost five months as a prisoner of Islamic State rebels in 2015.

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