Mes: septiembre 2019

Leaders of the Catholic Church in Australia have released its response to a roster of recommendations by a royal commission in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal that has roiled the church. A press release out Friday morning from Australia’s Catholic leaders vows “that the church’s shameful history will never be repeated” and expresses “deep sorrow that vulnerable children were abused, weren’t believed and weren’t supported when seeking justice.” The royal commission — Australia’s highest form of inquiry — laid out 26 recommendations on how the Catholic Church could reform. Leaders say they accept 98 percent of the recommendations, according to the press release. The report was completed after consultation with the Vatican. However, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) — the country’s top Catholic body — isn’t accepting a recommendation that would require priests by law to report abuse to the police when it’s revealed during confession. “The Council … continues to support retention of the civil law protection for the seal of the confessional,” the ACBC said in its response. ACBC president Archbishop Mark Coleridge told reporters Friday the seal of confession was “a non-negotiable element of our religious life and embodies an understanding of the believer and God.”  According to the Reuters news agency, one of Australia’s eight states and a territory have introduced laws making it a crime for priests to fail to report abuse...

(AP) PAMPLONA, Spain – Two Britons and an American were gored Monday on the third day of Spain’s famed running of the bulls through the cobblestoned streets of Pamplona in northern Spain. Thousands of daredevil runners charged ahead of six fighting bulls let loose for the annual San Fermin festival, and the three were gored by one that broke free from the pack just before entering the city’s bullring, a Navarre regional government statement said. Aryeh Deutsch, a 38-year-old who has participated in dozens of bull runs at Pamplona, said he tripped and fell amid a crowd of runners as he dashed ahead of the black bull and saw the animal heading toward him as he lay on the ground. “The next thing I know I am underneath him, I can see his belly and I was trying to roll out of the way to get under the fence and yeah he got me, he got me in the right calf,” said Deutsch, an engineer from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Deutsch didn’t realize at first that he had been gored but got behind the fence when he saw the bull turn around instead of heading toward the ring. It then charged other runners huddled on the ground near the fence, trying to protect themselves from the beast. That’s when the two Britons were gored. After several tense moments, the...