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

What's More Important Than The Sex Abuse Scandal? Ocean Trash.

What’s More Important Than The Sex Abuse Scandal? Ocean Trash.

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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 ...
Attacking the Whistleblower: The Abuse-Enabling Culture is Alive and Well in the Vatican

Attacking the Whistleblower: The Abuse-Enabling Culture is Alive and Well in the Vatican

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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 ...
Pope Francis and McCarrick: Where Does the Evidence Lead?

Pope Francis and McCarrick: Where Does the Evidence Lead?

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 ...
Spadaro Speaks!

Spadaro Speaks!

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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 ...
Donald Wuerl, the Church’s Most Oblivious Cleric

Donald Wuerl, the Church’s Most Oblivious Cleric

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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 Chaput Calls on Pope Francis to Cancel Youth Synod in Light of Abuse Crisis

Archbishop Chaput Calls on Pope Francis to Cancel Youth Synod in Light of Abuse Crisis

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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 ...
The Government Must Investigate the Catholic Church

The Government Must Investigate the Catholic Church

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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 ...
Pope Francis’s Best Friends

Pope Francis’s Best Friends

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Irish journalist John Waters lays it out cold, accusing his colleagues of going soft of Francis on the sex abuse question, post-Vigano, because they want to protect his gay-friendly agenda: The ...
Wuerl Allowed Seminarians To Be McCarrick Aides Amid Abuse Investigation

Wuerl Allowed Seminarians To Be McCarrick Aides Amid Abuse Investigation

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McCarrick had seminarian assistants until June 2018, about a year after the archdiocese knew he was being investigated The Archdiocese of Washington has confirmed that seminarians were permitted to serve ...
These Wicked Men Have Made My Daughters Victims, Too

These Wicked Men Have Made My Daughters Victims, Too

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When Theodore McCarrick was spooning and fondling seminarians, quite obviously he did not consider how far his enormities would reverberate. At the General Judgement, he will be shown how far his ...
Thousands of Catholic Women Sign Letter Pleading with Pope to Break Silence on Sex Scandal

Thousands of Catholic Women Sign Letter Pleading with Pope to Break Silence on Sex Scandal

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In a stunning and beautiful letter, thousands of Catholic women are pleading with Pope Francis to break his silence on the charges leveled by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who alleged that the ...
Viganò: Journalists Must Ask What Happened to the ‘Cache of Documents’ Benedict gave to Francis

Viganò: Journalists Must Ask What Happened to the ‘Cache of Documents’ Benedict gave to Francis

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has spoken out from an undisclosed location in response to attempts to discredit his 11-page testimony implicating Pope Francis and several senior prelates in coving up Archbishop ...
The Deeper Crisis: Abuse of Authority

The Deeper Crisis: Abuse of Authority

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Countless voices are being raised among bishops, priests, and laity calling for credible investigations of the McCarrick scandal, sexual abuse cover-ups, and the crisis in sexual morality, particularly regarding homosexual ...
Vatican Source: Pope Dismissed Cardinal Müller for Following Church Rules on Abuse Cases

Vatican Source: Pope Dismissed Cardinal Müller for Following Church Rules on Abuse Cases

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A highly placed Vatican source told LifeSiteNews that Cardinal Gerhard Müller, together with his much-experienced three CDF priests, were dismissed by Pope Francis because they all had tried to follow ...
Pope Ignored Warning From Top Vatican  Cardinal Not To Reinstate Defrocked Serial Abuser

Pope Ignored Warning From Top Vatican Cardinal Not To Reinstate Defrocked Serial Abuser

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Pope Francis removed sanctions from a notorious clerical sex offender despite being warned and urged by the Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith not to do ...
Seminarians Require Our Protection, Too

Seminarians Require Our Protection, Too

A scene from The Shawshank Redemption popped into my head yesterday. The Shawshank Redemption is a movie based on Stephen King’s novel about a falsely convicted man in a New England prison. The scene ...
Drew Mariani Show: Addressing Viganò's Critics

Drew Mariani Show: Addressing Viganò’s Critics

Attorney Dan Cheely joins Drew to discuss Archbishop  Viganò’s response to critics who are trying to discredit him based upon his handling of the Archbishop John Nienstedt investigation in the ...
Cupich Dismisses Viganò Claims as a ‘Rabbit Hole’

Cupich Dismisses Viganò Claims as a ‘Rabbit Hole’

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Archbishop of Chicago says Pope Francis has a ‘bigger agenda’ to worry about, including defending migrants and protecting the environment. Speaking Aug. 27 to Chicago’s NBC 5, Cardinal Cupich said ...
Viganò Corroboration #5: When Francis Rebuked Vigano

Viganò Corroboration #5: When Francis Rebuked Vigano

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From the Vigano testimony, this account of an event on June 21, 2013: The next day the audience with Pope Francis took place. After his address, which was partly read and ...
The Catastrophic Cost Of Secrets and Lies

The Catastrophic Cost Of Secrets and Lies

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An excerpt…. Pope Francis could put this entire thing to rest if he would sit for an interview with a respected journalist, and answer the questions: Did you know about ...
Words of Wisdom from J.R.R. Tolkien to His Son in the 1960’s about the Church

Words of Wisdom from J.R.R. Tolkien to His Son in the 1960’s about the Church

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I saw – HERE – an excerpt from a letter of J.R.R. Tolkien to his son in the 60’s, about the time of the Council.  He writes about the Church and bad ...
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