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ather Jacques Clemens attends a mass at St. Benoit church in Nalinnes, Belgium, July 10, 2016. NALINNES, Belgium A strict daily routine is the recipe for a long life, according to the world's oldest priest, Belgian Jacques Clemens, who will celebrate his 107th birthday on Monday.Clemens, who has also celebrated his 80th anniversary as a Catholic priest, gets up every morning at 5.30 a.m. and goes to bed at 9.00 p.m. When Clemens was about to retire at 75, his bishop asked him to remain in service until they found a successor - he only stopped holding regular church services...

A Matter of Common Sense Gay Pride Parade Features Catholic Parish/Priest By Phil Sevilla For the past 33 years, "gay" pride parades have distinguished San Francisco as the epicenter of the homosexual movement in America. On June 29, I was present to videotape and document with a small group of Catholic and pro-family journalists the parade and events at the Civic Center rotunda. I witnessed frontal nudity, lewd conduct, simulated acts of sodomy, and even profane slogans and caricatures mocking the pope and bishops. I filmed at least one Catholic priest, Father Edward Phelan, and members of his parish...

<p>EUGENE, Ore. -- A lesbian couple alleges that O'Hara Catholic School refused admission to their 4-year-old daughter because of their sexual orientation.</p> <p>The couple has complained to the Eugene Human Rights Commission and the Oregon Child Care Division.</p> <p>One of the women, Lee Inkmann, said O'Hara Principal Dianne Bert told her in mid-August that having a family with two mothers at the school would confuse other children, and that gay unions are in conflict with Vatican teachings.</p>

<p>A jury convicted the Rev. Bryan Kuchar late Friday night of sexually abusing a troubled teenager in 1995 when Kuchar was a parish priest at Assumption Catholic Church in south St. Louis County.</p> <p>The jury in St. Louis County Circuit Court found Kuchar guilty of three out of six counts of statutory sodomy. Jurors were to return to the courtroom of Judge John Ross for the penalty phase at 9 a.m. today.</p>

MERRIMACK – Parishioners of St. John Neumann Church, gathered in small groups as they prepared to go home from their regular church activities Sunday evening, weren’t in the mood to express how they felt about their pastor, the Rev. Steven M. Kucharski, being at the center of an investigation into missing funds from a Christmas Eve collection. Kucharski resigned his post, effective last Wednesday, after he became the target of an investigation into the theft of money from the Christmas Eve collection box. The Diocese of Manchester said in a news release Sunday night that it accepted his resignation and...