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Questions on abuse claims remain after bankruptcy judge rules against survivor

Aug 26, 2024 | ncronline.org | Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola |Michael Sean Winters

When a New Mexico bankruptcy judge ruled against a clergy sex abuse claimant earlier this summer in her legal dispute with the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, he may have issued more than a routine legal opinion and order.
Franciscan Friars of California ask to extend abuse claim deadline

Jul 3, 2024 | ncronline.org | Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola |Michael Sean Winters

Seven Native American tribes in Arizona and New Mexico should soon receive official notice explaining how tribal members who are clergy sex abuse survivors can file claims against the Franciscan Province of St. Barbara in its Chapter 11 case now wending its way through U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The province, through its civil entity the Franciscan Friars of California, Inc., filed for bankruptcy protection Dec.
Santa Fe Archdiocese back in court as abuse survivor claims violation of settlement

Apr 17, 2024 | ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola

More than a year after the Archdiocese of Santa Fe's Chapter 11 plan of reorganization was confirmed, the archdiocese is back in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. A clergy sexual abuse claimant has filed a motion alleging church officials are violating a key non-monetary agreement with abuse survivors, about how the archdiocese lists priests accused of abuse.
Control of the House is up for grabs

Apr 17, 2024 | ncronline.org | Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola |Michael Sean Winters

With President Joe Biden at the helm of a national security apparatus trying to keep tensions in the Mideast from boiling over, and former president Donald Trump focused on his trial in the hush money case, now is a good time to start looking at the down-ballot races that will likely affect the nation one way or the other in significant, if not equally, profound ways. The GOP majority in the House of Representatives is razor thin and by week's end, when Wisconsin Rep.
Panel at St. Mary's College in Indiana considers how to fight food waste

Apr 17, 2024 | ncronline.org | Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola |Catherine M. Odell |Daniel P. Horan

Discarded food is seen in a trash bin outside a store. "Forty percent of all food grown around the world for human consumption is wasted," Sally Geislar, assistant professor of environmental studies at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, said during an April 9 panel on food waste. (Wikimedia Commons/Foerster) Notre Dame, Ind.
Navajo Catholics upset after Franciscans transfer historic mission to local diocese

May 2, 2023 | ncronline.org | Pat Marrin |Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola

Navajo Catholics in the U.S. southwest are expressing upset over a decision to transfer administration of an historic mission founded some 125 years ago from the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor to the Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico. They are also voicing frustration about the process of consultation before the transferring of St. Michael's Mission, the first permanent Catholic mission to the Navajo, founded by St. Katharine Drexel in 1898.
Editorial: Why have no US Catholic dioceses divested from fossil fuels?

May 2, 2023 | ncronline.org | Madison Chastain |Pat Marrin |Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola

As of April 20, half of all Catholic dioceses in England and Wales have chosen to end financial investments in fossil fuels, the largest contributor to climate change. Zero Catholic dioceses in the United States have announced plans for divestment.
World Youth Day helps inspire young people to serve others, pope says

May 2, 2023 | ncronline.org | Madison Chastain |Pat Marrin |Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola |Carol Glatz

World Youth Day is an antidote against indifference, isolation and lethargy, Pope Francis said. Since World Youth Days were established by St. John Paul II in 1985, "they have involved, moved, stirred and challenged generations of women and men," he said in the preface of a new book, "A Long Journey to Lisbon," by Aura Miguel, a Portuguese journalist for Rádio Renascença. Vatican News published the preface May 2.