NEW YORK (AP) The Catholic priest who for decades had been one of the Vatican’s top experts on the Latin language died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Milwaukee. A United Methodist Church bishop in the West African nation of Sierra Leone died in a traffic accident in August as he was engaged in efforts to resolve the denomination’s conflicts over inclusion of LGBTQ people. Back in March, a 49-year-old priest in Brooklyn became the first Catholic cleric in the United States killed by the coronavirus. They were among many religious leaders some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally who died in 2020. Here are some of them.
Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020
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Faith leaders around the world who died in 2020
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file photo, Rev. Joseph Lowery speaks at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr., spoke, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
New York - The Catholic priest who for decades had been one of the Vatican’s top experts on the Latin language died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Milwaukee. A United Methodist Church bishop in the West African nation of Sierra Leone died in a traffic accident in August as he was engaged in efforts to resolve the denomination’s conflicts over inclusion of LGBTQ people. Back in March, a 49-year-old priest in Brooklyn became the first Catholic cleric in the United States killed by the coronavirus. They were among many religious leaders some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally who died in 2020. Here are some of them.
Pope Francis strips Vatican Secretariat of State of assets in reform move
While the Secretariat of State’s power will still be considerable, the new decree increases the power of other Vatican agencies. In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo, Pope Francis exchanges holiday greetings with Vatican employees in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. Francis has formally stripped the Vatican Secretariat of State of its financial assets and real estate holdings after its bungled management of hundreds of millions of euros in donations and investments. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
December 29, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis continued his cleanup of Vatican finances by stripping the powerful department of the Secretariat of State of its financial assets, the Vatican announced Monday (Dec. 28). The funds had come under scrutiny in 2019 after a questionable investment in luxury apartments in London.