Blog note. Before I start analyzing and commenting, I want to make a few things very clear. This is not about her being a woman This is not about her being of Jewish ancestry This is not about her being either Democratic or Republican I take great pains […]
More Americans than ever are leaving the Catholic Church after the sex abuse scandal. Here’s why. Lindsay Schnell. USA TODAY•April 22, 2019 YORK, Pa. – On Palm Sunday, Barbara Hoover exited Brougher Chapel with a palm frond in her left hand. The 76-year-old retiree sized up the church in […]
Brazilian police arrest 106 people for child pornography. Evil waxing worse and worse, in diverse places around the world. They need 106 mill-stones in Brazil. Associated Press•March 28, 2019 SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s justice ministry says more than 100 people have been arrested in an offensive against […]
Mississippi bishop: ‘Shattered lives’ amid clergy sex abuse EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS. Associated Press•March 19, 2019 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Catholic diocese in Mississippi on Tuesday released the names of 37 clergy members who it says have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children. Officials with the Diocese […]
West Virginia’s attorney general alleges Catholic Church allowed abusive priests to teach in schools. A bottomless pit of evil. MEGHAN KENEALLY. ABC News•March 19, 2019 West Virginia’s attorney general alleges Catholic Church allowed abusive priests to teach in schools originally appeared on abcnews.go.com The Catholic diocese allowed priests to serve in […]
World Outrage over False Prophet’s decision to reject resignation of archbishop convicted of protecting predator priest Nick Squires. The Telegraph•March 19, 2019 Catholic campaigners condemned as “shocking” a decision by Pope Francis not to accept the resignation of a French archbishop who was given a suspended prison sentence […]
German Catholics accused of ‘stonewalling’ by child abuse victims Frank ZELLER. AFP•March 14, 2019 Berlin (AFP) – Germany’s under-fire Catholic Church admitted Thursday it must urgently confront its child sex abuse scandal, but victims accused it of continued “stonewalling”, especially on compensation. As in Australia, Chile, France, Ireland […]
Polish church admits clergy abused hundreds of children. In February, a charity supporting victims of paedophile priests in Poland released a groundbreaking report documenting nearly 400 cases of sex abuse by clergymen in the staunchly Catholic country AFP•March 14, 2019 Warsaw (AFP) – Poland’s powerful Catholic church on […]
Cardinal offers resignation after conviction Associated Press•March 7, 2019 LYON, France (AP) — The Latest on a church sex abuse trial in France (all times local): 1:15 p.m. French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin is offering his resignation to the pope after being convicted of failing to report a pedophile […]
Convicted Australian cardinal to be sued over alleged abuse: reports AFP•March 3, 2019 Melbourne (AFP) – A man is set to sue convicted Australian Cardinal George Pell over child sex abuse allegations, reports said Monday, days after state prosecutors dropped his criminal case against the disgraced cleric. Pell […]
