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U.S. Catholic bishops may dodge rebuke of Biden over …

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops holds its Fall General Assembly meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)

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330,000 kids were victims of sex abuse in France’s Catholic …

Commission president Jean-Marc Sauve, left, hands copies of the report to Catholic Bishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of the Bishops' Conference of France (CEF), during the publishing of a report by an independant commission into sexual abuse by church officials (Ciase), Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Paris. A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon. (Thomas Coex, Pool via AP)

Church billed as largest U.S. Catholic parish is being …

The interior of the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church construction site in Visalia, Calif., on Aug. 26, 2021. (Alejandra Molina/RNS via Associated Press)

Admirers still urging sainthood for Catholic chaplain …

In this July 17, 2000 file photo, Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain with the New York City Fire Department, stands at the shore before a service where 230 candles were lit for the July 17, 1996 victims of TWA Flight 800, at Smith Point Park in Shirley, N.Y. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File)

Pope Francis reimposes restrictions on Latin Mass

In this Thursday, April 1, 2021 file photo, Pope Francis celebrates a Chrism Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

U.S. Catholic bishops approve steps toward possible rebuke …

In this Jan. 20, 2021 file photo, President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attend Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle during Inauguration Day ceremonies in Washington. (Evan Vucci, File)

U.S. Catholic bishops to debate sensitive issue of who …

In this Sunday, June 7, 2020 file photo, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez holds a Communion wafer as he celebrates the the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, a Mass with churchgoers present at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

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U.S. Catholic bishops may press Biden to stop taking …

In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 file photo, President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attend Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle during Inauguration Day ceremonies in Washington. When U.S. Catholic bishops hold their next national meeting in June 2021, they’ll be deciding whether to send a tougher-than-ever message to President Joe Biden and other Catholic politicians: Don’t partake of Communion if you persist in public advocacy of abortion rights. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

6 Catholic schools in working-class L.A. County neighborhoods …

Pictured is Assumption Catholic School in Boyle Heights. The campus is one of six elementary schools that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced will close in June 2021.(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

Vatican says priests cannot bless same sex unions

Pope Francis celebrates mass on the occasion of 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 14, 2021. (Tiziana Fabi/Pool photo via AP)

Catholic diocese received taxpayer aid while sitting …

In this April 5, 2020, file photo, The Most Rev. Peter Jugis, Bishop of Charlotte, conducts Palm Sunday services inside the empty St. Patrick Cathedral in Charlotte, N.C. (David T. Foster III/The Charlotte Observer via AP)

San Jose-based Catholic bishop under investigation …

U.S. Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick arrives for a meeting on the eve of the start of a conclave on March 11, 2013, at the Vatican. (Credit: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

Exorcisms performed in well-attended outdoor ceremonies …

Archbishop Alexander Sample carries the Eucharist into downtown Portland, Ore., for an exorcism and rosary to bring peace and justice to the city on Oct. 17, 2020. (Ed Langlois/Catholic Sentinel via AP)

Pope Francis endorses same-sex civil unions, says …

Pope Francis waves to faithful at the end of the weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)