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

Cardinal Donald Wuerl Says He Will Go to Rome to Discuss his Potential Resignation

Cardinal Donald Wuerl Says He Will Go to Rome to Discuss his Potential Resignation

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Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who has faced increasing calls for his resignation over his handling of sexual abuse cases, wrote on Tuesday that he will soon discuss with Pope Francis the ...
Cardinal Bergoglio of Buenos Aires: Some More Unanswered Questions

Cardinal Bergoglio of Buenos Aires: Some More Unanswered Questions

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When I wrote The Dictator Pope, I pointed out the failure of the cardinals in 2013 to inform themselves about Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio’s record as archbishop of Buenos Aires, for if ...
Pope Benedict’s Top Aide Broaches Abuse Crisis, Quotes Cardinal’s Apocalyptic Critique of Francis

Pope Benedict’s Top Aide Broaches Abuse Crisis, Quotes Cardinal’s Apocalyptic Critique of Francis

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Pope Emeritus Benedict’s personal secretary and the head of the papal household has commented on the abuse crisis that is rocking the Catholic Church, stating that if the Church does ...
Cardinal DiNardo and USCCB Officials to Meet with Pope Francis on Thursday

Cardinal DiNardo and USCCB Officials to Meet with Pope Francis on Thursday

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The director of the Vatican’s press office has confirmed that Pope Francis will meet with the president of the U.S. bishops’ conference Thursday, along with the conference’s vice-president, general secretary, ...
Did Francis Just Liken Us to Satan?

Did Francis Just Liken Us to Satan?

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When the news of the Theodore McCarrick sex scandal initially broke, a group of faithful Catholic men gathered to discuss what we might do in response. We were fed-up with ...
Vatican Official: Sex Abuse Scandal is Church’s ‘Own 9/11’

Vatican Official: Sex Abuse Scandal is Church’s ‘Own 9/11’

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A top Vatican official said Tuesday the clerical sex abuse scandal is such a game-changing catastrophe for the Catholic Church that he called it the church’s “own 9/11” on the ...
Why Cardinal Wuerl Placed Me on the Basilica’s Most Wanted List

Why Cardinal Wuerl Placed Me on the Basilica’s Most Wanted List

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I am systematically revealing his secrets. I learned from a chancery-connected source last week that Washington, D.C. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, choking on his rage at my reporting of his misdeeds, ...
Red Flags, Abuse, and the Final Judgment

Red Flags, Abuse, and the Final Judgment

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Christ tells us to recognize the false prophets, the ones who are secretly ravenous wolves longing to eat His people up, by the fruit they bear. The laity (and some ...
Genuine Faith Requires More than Niceness

Genuine Faith Requires More than Niceness

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In my previous article I expressed some disagreement with people who said that the now disgraced Theodore McCarrick must never have had more than a “notional” faith, because otherwise he never ...
Vatican’s Child Protection Office Says it Prevents, Doesn’t Investigate, Abuse

Vatican’s Child Protection Office Says it Prevents, Doesn’t Investigate, Abuse

Crux, Charles Collins
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Members of the Vatican’s commission for protecting young people in the Church have been listening to victims and survivors of abuse in Rome, while also pointing out they have no ...
Cupich on Scandal: ‘We Have a Bigger Agenda Than to be Distracted by all of This’

Cupich on Scandal: ‘We Have a Bigger Agenda Than to be Distracted by all of This’

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The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic priest seemed anguished as he vented to Cardinal Blase Cupich about the clergy sex-abuse scandal that threatens to topple Pope ...
George Neumayr: Cardinal Wuerl is Even Now Covering-Up for a Priest Who Abused Teen in Hot Tub

George Neumayr: Cardinal Wuerl is Even Now Covering-Up for a Priest Who Abused Teen in Hot Tub

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In a recent telephone interview, journalist and book author George Neumayr reveals many details about his ongoing investigation into the corruptions of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, but also of Cardinal Theodore ...
Catholics Resist ‘Clericalism’ by Demanding Pope Answer Abuse Cover-Up Allegations

Catholics Resist ‘Clericalism’ by Demanding Pope Answer Abuse Cover-Up Allegations

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Fr. Thomas M. Rosica, Vatican press assistant for the anglophone sector, wrote recently these astonishingly frank words: Pope Francis breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants because he is ‘free from disordered attachments.’ ...
Vatican Continues Not to Cooperate With Media Over Viganò Allegations

Vatican Continues Not to Cooperate With Media Over Viganò Allegations

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Despite Pope Francis’ call on journalists to verify Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s allegations, a key cardinal and other Vatican officials and offices have so far refused to provide information. Cardinal ...
A Leaven In The World… A Tale Of Two Silences

A Leaven In The World… A Tale Of Two Silences

Fr. Kevin Cusick
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Many Catholics are confused. A Pope who, up to now, hardly left a subject untouched in his ongoing conversation with the world, on topics ranging from advice on not ironing ...
Tear Down this Papal Wall of Silence

Tear Down this Papal Wall of Silence

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In the dark of an August night in 1961, the Russians threw up a barrier between East and West Berlin which came to be known as the Berlin Wall. On ...
Catholic Clergyman Calls on Wuerl to Resign, Says He’ll Refuse to Participate in Mass with Him

Catholic Clergyman Calls on Wuerl to Resign, Says He’ll Refuse to Participate in Mass with Him

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A highly visible member of Washington’s Catholic clergy has made a dramatic declaration calling on Cardinal Donald Wuerl to resign, the latest blow to Washington’s embattled archbishop. Sign the petition asking ...
Pope Protecting Predators?

Pope Protecting Predators?

Complicit Clergy, Staff
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From 1998 to 2013 Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now known as Pope Francis, was Bishop of Buenos Aires. While he held that church position church officials in the US and Europe ...
Another Case of Abuse Cover-up by Francis?  Students at School for the Deaf Say They Were Repeatedly Raped by Priests

Another Case of Abuse Cover-up by Francis? Students at School for the Deaf Say They Were Repeatedly Raped by Priests

CBS News, Marie Malzac
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The children told prosecutors the two Roman Catholic priests repeatedly raped them by an image of the Virgin Mary inside the small school chapel in remote northwestern Argentina. Only their ...
Catholic Faithful Demand Change After Sex Abuse Scandals

Catholic Faithful Demand Change After Sex Abuse Scandals

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The day after a grand jury report revealed that Roman Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children over decades, Adrienne Alexander went to Mass at a Chicago church ...
The Hunt for Viganò: Vatican Spies Tracking Whistleblower

The Hunt for Viganò: Vatican Spies Tracking Whistleblower

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Pope’s canon lawyers drafting sanctions Vatican officials are on the hunt for Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò. According to sources within the Vatican, the Secretariat of State of the Holy See ...
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