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Aggregated news and commentary from across the web regarding cover-up of the sexual abuse scandal.

Sex Abuse Scandal Claims Yet Another US Bishop Resignation

Sex Abuse Scandal Claims Yet Another US Bishop Resignation

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Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Auxiliary Bishop Alexander Salazar of Los Angeles Wednesday after the archdiocese’s oversight board found a prior allegation of misconduct with a minor to be ...
Midwest and Maryland Provinces of Jesuits Release List of 89 Priests Accused of Abuse

Midwest and Maryland Provinces of Jesuits Release List of 89 Priests Accused of Abuse

Yahoo News, Staff
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Jesuit authorities for 20 US states on Monday released the names of 89 priests with credible allegations of child sexual abuse dating as far back as 1950. The disclosures by ...
Prophetic 1930 Article Warns of Homosexuality, Birth Control

Prophetic 1930 Article Warns of Homosexuality, Birth Control

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Father William Bolger of St. Thomas University Offers Prophetic Warning About Homosexuality and Birth Control This 1930 article from the Register carried a warning from Father William Bolger to a ...
Nashville Deacon Removed from Ministry after Calling for Investigation

Nashville Deacon Removed from Ministry after Calling for Investigation

News Channel 5, Staff
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A Nashville deacon who has questioned the handling of a recently published list of Tennessee priests accused of sexual abuse has been removed from ministry at his local parish. Deacon ...
Salt Lake City Dioceses Releases Names of 19 Abusers

Salt Lake City Dioceses Releases Names of 19 Abusers

Fox News 13, Staff
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The Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City has published a list of all priests who have faced credible allegations of sexual abuse involving minors dating back to 1950. The list, ...
Maryland Jesuits Release List of bout 30 Men 'Credibly Accused' of Abuse

Maryland Jesuits Release List of bout 30 Men ‘Credibly Accused’ of Abuse

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The Maryland Province of Jesuits on Monday released a list of about 30 priests and other order members who have been “credibly accused” of sexual abuse of children since 1950 ...
Jesuits Sent Abusive Priests to Retire on Gonzaga's Campus

Jesuits Sent Abusive Priests to Retire on Gonzaga’s Campus

Fox News, Staff
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On the surface, Father James Poole seemed like the cool priest in Nome, Alaska. He founded a Catholic mission radio station that broadcast his Jesuit sermons alongside contemporary pop hits ...
A Troubling Year in Review

A Troubling Year in Review

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One aspect of getting older, and wiser, is the shedding of once comforting, but in fact naïve illusions about individuals or groups. We normally trust that certain people and groups ...
Religious Orders Kept Reports of Child Sex Abuse Secret for Years

Religious Orders Kept Reports of Child Sex Abuse Secret for Years

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Bill Reidy says he remembers every detail about the office where he was repeatedly raped by the Jesuit priest who served as his academic adviser at Loyola Academy, a private ...
Pennsylvania AG Says 45 States Have Sought Help: 'A Lot More Horrors to Unearth'

Pennsylvania AG Says 45 States Have Sought Help: ‘A Lot More Horrors to Unearth’

USA Today, Kevin Johnson
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Law enforcement officials from up to 45 states have sought assistance from Pennsylvania authorities in pursuit of alleged misconduct by Catholic priests and related efforts to conceal that abuse by the church, Pennsylvania ...
Refreshing Truth: Modernism and the Current Crisis

Refreshing Truth: Modernism and the Current Crisis

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Fr. Daniel Nolan, a FSSP priest from Littleton, Colorado, presents a compelling series of nine talks on the current crisis in the Catholic Church and its relationship to the heresy ...
Sales from LGBT ‘Rainbow’ Rosary Promoted by Fr. James Martin Funds Pro-Abortion Groups

Sales from LGBT ‘Rainbow’ Rosary Promoted by Fr. James Martin Funds Pro-Abortion Groups

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Profits from the sacrilegious rosary promoted by LGBT-affirming Father James Martin last week will fund groups supportive of abortion and other causes in conflict with Catholic teaching. Some of the proceeds from ...
Vatican Theologian: Pope Must Tackle ‘Gay Agenda’ in Church to Fight Sex Abuse

Vatican Theologian: Pope Must Tackle ‘Gay Agenda’ in Church to Fight Sex Abuse

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Homosexuality is an important issue for discussion at the Vatican’s upcoming summit on abuse, but will most likely not be brought up unless Pope Francis himself introduces the topic, according to ...
Cardinal Eijk: The Church Must Investigate Viganò Testimonies to Regain Credibility

Cardinal Eijk: The Church Must Investigate Viganò Testimonies to Regain Credibility

A prominent cardinal is joining a chorus of bishops in calling for a full investigation into the Archbishop Viganò testimonies, which implicated several senior prelates and Pope Francis in the cover-up of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s ...
After Guilty Verdict, Questions Raised About Pell Trial

After Guilty Verdict, Questions Raised About Pell Trial

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After reports of a guilty verdict emerged in the trial of Australian Cardinal George Pell, some in Australia have questioned the integrity of a process undertaken under the veil of ...
Catholic Church Still Breaking its Own Laws, 16 Years After Abuse Scandal Exposed

Catholic Church Still Breaking its Own Laws, 16 Years After Abuse Scandal Exposed

York Daily Record, Staff
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Attempts to solve many problems found in the Catholic church today can be traced back to a meeting among U.S. bishops in June 2002. It was five months after the ...
Lists of Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse Are Spilling Out Across the Country

Lists of Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse Are Spilling Out Across the Country

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It was a list Charles L. Bailey Jr. had wanted to see for years: the names of the priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse who had been credibly ...
How Catholics Can Live Their Faith More Fully in the Current Crisis

How Catholics Can Live Their Faith More Fully in the Current Crisis

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Recently a university graduate asked me what he could do to live out his Catholic faith more fully during the current crisis in the Church, and how he could better share this ...
Pope Expels Two Cardinals Implicated in Sex Abuse From His Council

Pope Expels Two Cardinals Implicated in Sex Abuse From His Council

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The Vatican announced Wednesday that it had removed two cardinals implicated in sexual abuse cases from a powerful council of advisers picked by Pope Francis to guide him on matters ...
International Criminal Court Urged to Investigate Catholic Church for the Cover-Up of Sexual Abuse

International Criminal Court Urged to Investigate Catholic Church for the Cover-Up of Sexual Abuse

ABC News, Staff
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There are two questions weighing heavily on abuse survivor Peter Gogarty’s mind — how people who claim to believe in and preach the Gospel could prey on and sexually abuse ...
Cardinal Müller: Priests ‘Rightly Disobey’ Bishops Who Order Them to Give Protestants Communion

Cardinal Müller: Priests ‘Rightly Disobey’ Bishops Who Order Them to Give Protestants Communion

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Recently, when supportively presenting to his diocese the new German guidelines concerning Communion for some Protestants, the German Bishop Felix Genn of Münster has claimed that “As pastoral caretakers, we ...
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