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Fall River residents who want to oust indicted Mayor Jasiel Correia II say they have more than enough signatures to force a recall election, and they are gathering more.
The city charter requires certified signatures from 5 percent of the South Coast city's registered voters to accomplish a recall election.
Catholic Church commentator Robert Royal says that Pope Francis's recent request that U.S. Catholic bishops meeting in Baltimore this week take no immediate additional actions to stop clergy sex abuse is head-spinning.
"The Vatican knew for months that the bishops would deal with abuse at their regular Fall gathering. The pope asked them to cancel it and hold a spiritual retreat instead until the heads of bishops' conferences from around the world meet in February," Royal writes in The Catholic Thing. "… Whatever the fear, to wait until the very day the meeting opened to request no voting take place is almost without precedent. For many Americans, sad to say, the pope has probably just confirmed what he was forced to admit in Chile: he's part of the problem."