German national TV channel ZDF is rerunning a 2017 documentary produced by Martin Boudat that claims that Pope Francis, as Archbishop Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, ignored cries for justice from abuse victims ...
There is nothing, nothing, that undermines the authority of the Church more quickly and thoroughly than this devilish marriage of scandal and hypocrisy. Contrary to Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s early and ...
Two Chicago-area priests were charged Monday with ‘Clericalism‘ after being caught performing a sexual act inside a car parked on a Miami Beach street. According to Miami Beach Police, 39-year-old ...
The month of August opened with a bang—and closed with a nuclear detonation. On August 2nd the world learned of Pope Francis’s disdain for the witness of Scripture and the ordinary ...
What is the profile of a peripatetic predator? The sex tourist and human trafficker come to mind. He prowls, constantly moving, seeking new victims in far off lands, always outside ...
Pope Francis met with embattled Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington last Thursday in Vatican City, where they discussed the cardinal’s personal situation, according to a source familiar with Wuerl’s presentation ...
Though some commentators have argued that the disgraced cardinal was no more active during Pope Francis’ papacy than during the tenure of his German predecessor, some news outlets registered a ...
The New York Times writes about the contretemps between Archbishop Vigano and the Vatican over the 2015 meeting Pope Francis had with Kim Davis. Team Francis has responded to Vigano’s defense, and ...
Time’s up for Pope Francis and the leaders of the Catholic Church. Catholics everywhere — and anyone who cares about children — should demand that our criminal justice system start ...
Cardinal Joseph Tobin told a journalist Friday that he heard rumors shortly after his 2017 arrival in the Archdiocese of Newark about the sexual misconduct of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. He ...
Why Won’t Pope Francis Respond to Viganò? As a follow up to why did Pope Benedict resign, we look at the political history of Pope Francis and the influence of ...
If the head of any other organisation were guilty of such complicity, he or she would not only be forced to resign but could also end up in the dock ...
Give credit where credit is due: The New York Times called every curial cardinal accused by Vigano in his letter, asking them for comment. Here’s what happened: Following the pope’s lead, the Vatican ...
You stand accused by a former papal diplomat of covering up the serial sexual molestation of a top cardinal, despite your public claim of devotion to “transparency.” You refuse to ...
In the current phase of the Church’s crisis, we are focusing as much or more on the enablers of abuse, than on the abusers themselves. It is time we thought ...
Archbishop Viganò made four major claims. But do the facts support them? Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s testimony, published on Saturday, goes on for 7,000 words and names more than 30 public ...
NOTE: Fr. Antonio Spadaro is editor-in-chief of the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica and close confidant of Pope Francis. An inspiring message from a spiritual giant of our time: That cannot be improved ...
The cardinal’s repeated denials of knowledge and responsibility for sexual-abuse cover-ups defy all credibility. The Catholic Church’s nightmare of a summer began with Theodore McCarrick. After news broke in June ...
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia told a conference that had met to discuss the “young people” of the Church that in light of the abuse crisis in the Catholic Church ...
When New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s very fine “Bad Religion” published a half-dozen years ago, I commented then that what was so amazing was that Douthat — a convert to Catholicism ...
