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Sharonell Fulton, a foster parent in Philadelphia, is pictured with a young woman and child in a May 23, 2018, photo. Fulton joined in a lawsuit challenging the city of Philadelphia for barring Catholic Social Services of the Philadelphia Archdiocese from placing children in foster families. The Catholic agency supports traditional marriage and does not place children with same-sex couples. A federal appeals court April 22 upheld the city's policy. (CNS photo/courtesy Becket Religious Liberty for All)

Court says Philadelphia can end faith-based agencies’ foster placements

Catholic News Service
April 25, 2019
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled April 22 that the city of Philadelphia can bar Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from placing children in foster care with any family because the Catholic agency upholds traditional marriage.

A man mourns in front of a relative's grave at Sellakanda Catholic cemetery in Negombo, Sri Lanka, April 23, 2019, two days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island. (CNS photo/Athit Perawongmetha, Reuters)

Cardinal Ranjith criticizes Sri Lankan government for not taking precautions

Catholic News Service
April 24, 2019
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Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said he is struggling following the Easter bombings in his country “because there are no words with which I can console my people.”

Retired Pope Benedict XVI attends a consistory for the creation of new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Feb. 22, 2014, file photo. Pope Benedict has released an article addressing the roots of the clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church and how the church should respond now. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

The Ratzinger Diagnosis 

George Weigel
April 24, 2019
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The Pope Emeritus did the Church a service by offering a diagnosis of the abuse crisis that should be taken seriously by anyone serious about healing the wounds inflicted on the Body of Christ by the abuse of Holy Orders for wicked, self-indulgent purposes.

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