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Man charged in 2019 homicide of woman in Indianapolis church

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FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2016, file photo, a New Orleans Saints helmet rests on the playing field before an NFL football game in Kansas City, Mo. An Associated Press review of public tax documents found that the Bensons' foundation has given at least $62 million to the Archdiocese of New Orleans and other Catholic causes over the past dozen years, including gifts to schools, universities, charities and individual parishes. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

NFL Saints backed by church in effort to keep emails secret

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

Pope Francis reads his message during the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis avoids question of married priests in Amazon document

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Funeral homes adapt to changing death practices

By BILL DOYLE - Associated Press

In this picture taken Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, a Christ statue overlooks El Alto, a city adjoining the capital city La Paz, Bolivia. Ancestral indigenous practices became more visible during the presidency of Evo Morales, who recognized the Andean earth deity Pachamama. While Bolivians are divided on former President Morales' legacy, the interim President Jeanine Añez wants to make the Bible front and center in public life. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Bolivia religious debate: The Bible vs Andean earth deity

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Mexico bishops urge no statute of limitations for sex abuse

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Legion of Christ accused abuser removed from priesthood

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Retired Pope Benedict XVI (left) has broken his silence to reaffirm the value of priestly celibacy, co-authoring a bombshell book at the precise moment that Pope Francis is weighing whether to allow married men to be ordained to address the Catholic priest shortage. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Pope Benedict XVI reaffirms priestly celibacy value in book

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this June 28, 2017, file photo, Pope Francis, left, and Pope Benedict XVI, meet each other on the occasion of the elevation of five new cardinals at the Vatican. Retired Pope Benedict XVI has broken his silence to reaffirm the value of priestly celibacy, co-authoring a bombshell book at the precise moment that Pope Francis is weighing whether to allow married men to be ordained to address the Catholic priest shortage. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool photo via AP, File) **FILE**

Vatican tamps down clamor over Benedict’s new celibacy book

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2018 file photo, Attorney General Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania speaks at a news conference in the state Capitol after legislation to respond to a landmark grand jury report accusing hundreds of Roman Catholic priests of sexually abusing children over decades stalled in the Legislature in Harrisburg, Pa. A Pennsylvania judge has ruled, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, that parents of children in the Roman Catholic Church and survivors of sexual abuse by clergy members can move forward with a lawsuit against the Diocese of Pittsburgh alleging that it has not fulfilled its obligations under state law to report child sexual abusers. The lawsuit was filed in 2018, a month after Shapiro released the state's landmark grand jury report. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Judge says parents can sue diocese over abuse reporting

By CLAUDIA LAUER - Associated Press

Terrence Sample poses for a portrait in Baton Rouge, La., on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. Sample, now 58, was a middle school student at St. Procopius Catholic school, when Father Terence Fitzmaurice took an interest in him. He was groomed, isolated and assaulted for several years. For survivors of color, who often face additional social and cultural barriers to coming forward on their own, the lack of concerted outreach on behalf of the church means less public exposure — and potentially, more opportunities for abuse to go on, undetected. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Church offers little outreach to minority victims of priests

By GARY FIELDS and JULIET LINDERMAN and WONG MAYE-E - Associated Press

"Noah," starring Russell Crowe, was supposed to be Hollywood's chance to prove it could pay fealty to biblical material while grabbing a larger audience, but most Christian news outlets called the film a missed opportunity. (Associated Press/File)

Hollywood reluctant to make faith-based movies

By James Varney - The Washington Times

Pope Francis presides over a Mass for the solemnity of St. Mary at the beginning of the new year, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis equates violence against women to profaning God

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

This undated photo obtained from the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in December 2019 shows Richard J. Poster. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children, admitted masturbating in the bushes near a church school and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry. And yet the former Catholic priest was only just in December 2019 added to a list of clergy members credibly accused of child sexual abuse -- after The Associated Press asked why he was not included. (Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services via AP)

Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists

By CLAUDIA LAUER and MEGHAN HOYER - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, file photo, Monsignor John Kennedy, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith discipline section, speaks during an interview on the terrace of the section's offices at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

‘Tsunami of cases’: Clergy abuse strains secretive tribunal

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

$This combination of photos made from individual Polaroid emulsion transfers shows, from left, Dorothy Small, 65; Patrick Shepard, 48, and Jacob Olivas, 50. They were believers_before their trust was tested, fractured or blown apart entirely by sexual abuse at the hands of a priest. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)$

SUNDAYS AFTER: Portraits of resilience after clergy abuse

By WONG MAYE-E and JULIET LINDERMAN - Associated Press

Catholic church on Montana reservation destroyed by fire

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Man charged with attacking guards at National Shrine in DC

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Priest accused of having child pornography

Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, photo, attorney Adam Slater takes a phone call on a patio outside his high-rise Manhattan office overlooking St. Patrick's Cathedral, in New York. Slater's firm is representing clients accusing the Roman Catholic Church of sexual abuse, a clientele that is rapidly growing after New York state opened its one-year window allowing sex abuse suits with no statute of limitations. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) ** FILE **

New abuse suits could cost the Catholic Church more than $4B

By Bernard Condon and Jim Mustian - Associated Press