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LOS ANGELES — Christians throughout the Southland are observing Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, when the faithful prepare for Easter by doing penance for sins and seek spiritual renewal through prayer, self-denial and good works.
Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of placing ashes of the foreheads of the faithful as a [...]

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While Archbishop Timothy Dolan has been credited with reaching out to victims of abuse by the clergy, some charge he hasn’t gone nearly far enough. NY1’s Dean Meminger filed the following report.
As a child, Peter Isely says he was raped by a Catholic priest in Milwaukee. And in his eyes, Archbishop Timothy Dolan hasn’t done [...]

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DETROIT — Almost nine months after six children were removed from his care for allegations of abuse and neglect, Detroit Public Schools board member Reverend David Murray has failed to persuade authorities he is fit to have them back.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Mark T. Slavens, who had made the youths temporary wards pending investigation of [...]

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Putnam man gets 45 years for abusing underage relatives
WINFIELD, W.Va. - A former Putnam County pastor was sentenced to a maximum of 45 years in prison Monday morning after pleading guilty to videotaping himself sexually abusing three relatives and his stepdaughter.
Putnam County Circuit Court Judge O.C. Spaulding sentenced Paul D. Smeltzer, 40, to 17 to [...]

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ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin (pictured) is planning a series of meetings for priests in the Dublin diocese to discuss the likely fall-out from the commission of inquiry into abuse by Catholic priests who served there.
The commission, an independent state-appointed body which carried out its work in private, is expected to publish its report early in [...]

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