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By NICOLE WINFIELD , Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued a letter to Catholics around the world Monday condemning the crime of priestly sexual abuse and its cover-up. He demanded accountability but offered no indication of how he plans to sanction complicit bishops or end the Vatican's long-standing culture of secrecy...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The contentious debate over the Vatican's ground-breaking overture to gays has taken a new twist.

I’m Lynn Woolley with your Logic Minute for 3/14/13 At first glance, I think the Catholic Church did well in selecting Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the new Pope. In Pope Francis, the church seems to have it all: a modest man who relates to the poor having lived as one – and a man of the church who still believes in the traditional values of life and family...