MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday asked the nation for forgiveness after a close confidant in his Socialist Party…
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More than 10,000 church representatives are gathered in Dallas for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Casting a pall over the gathering is the recent death of one of the most high-profile whistleblowers in the Southern Baptists’ scandal of sexual abuse. Jennifer Lyell, a onetime denominational publishing executive who went public in 2019 with allegations that she had been sexually abused by a seminary professor while a student, died Saturday at 47. Friends reported that the backlash Lyell received after going public took a devastating toll on her. Several abuse survivors and advocates for reform are skipping this year’s gathering, citing lack of progress.
One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 million euro ($57-68 million) structural deficit, a 1 billion euro ($1.14 billion) pension fund shortfall and declining donations. Leo is a Chicago-born math major, canon lawyer and two-time superior of his global Augustinian religious order. People who know him say he is up to the challenge. Leo already has one thing going for him: his American-ness. American donors have long been the economic life support system of the Holy See, and Leo’s election as the first American pope has sent a jolt of excitement through U.S. Catholics who may well be asked to put their money behind him.
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