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25 years later, Legion of Christ victims seek reparations

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Connecticut newspaper exposed one of the Catholic Church’s biggest sexual abuse scandals by reporting 25 years ago Wednesday that eight men had accused the revered founder of the Legion of Christ religious order of raping and molesting them when they were boys ...

Christian revival at school prompts student walkout in W.Va.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Between calculus and European history classes at a West Virginia public high school, 16-year-old Cameron Mays and his classmates were told by their teacher to go to an evangelical Christian revival assembly. When students arrived at the event in the school’s ...

Footsteps to Follow: Uncommon opportunities

As we have entered into the second month of 2022, there is a continual shift of circumstances that have affected each of us in different ways. Some ways may include the direct impact of social distancing, the changing of school systems and economic structures, to very personal family issues ...

Faith Matters: Ending food insecurity is possible

I grew up in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York. By small town, I mean that when you were at a traffic light, you knew the families who sat in the cars at the other three points of the intersection! My father worked in roofing and construction; my mother worked two jobs to ...

World remembers Holocaust as antisemitism rises in pandemic

WARSAW, Poland — Survivors recalled their agony to a world they fear is forgetting, Israel’s parliamentary speaker wept in the German parliament and politicians warned of a resurgence of antisemitism on Thursday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day falls on the ...

Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ banned in Tennessee school district

ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting. The McMinn County School Board decided Jan. 10 to ...