https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Bishop Anders Arborelius has become Sweden's first-ever cardinal, in an historic appointment by Pope Francis, who visited the normally very secular country last year. https://www.thelocal.se/20170628/meet-anders-arborelius-swedens-first-ever-cardinal-pope-francis Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:29:23 +0200 meet-anders-arborelius-swedens-first-ever-cardinal-pope-francis Bishop Anders Arborelius has said that he is "prepared to take the consequences" over the failure to investigate the alleged abuse of two sisters by a paedophile priest, first brought to the Catholic Church's attention in 1990. https://www.thelocal.se/20100426/26282 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:54:00 +0200 26282 The Catholic Church in Sweden has known for twenty years of claims that two young girls were sexually abused by a priest in the 1950s and 1960s, Dagens Nyheter reports. https://www.thelocal.se/20100425/26270 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:47:00 +0200 26270