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

Powerful Homily: The Root Of The Problem

Powerful Homily: The Root Of The Problem

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The following homily is from Fr. John Lankeit, Rector of Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral in Phoenix, Arizona. Please also read the Pastoral Letter from Bishop Olmsted and Bishop Nevares ...
Viganò Corroboration #2: Spokesman Confirms Cardinal Wuerl Cancelled McCarrick Meeting with Seminarians

Viganò Corroboration #2: Spokesman Confirms Cardinal Wuerl Cancelled McCarrick Meeting with Seminarians

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At the nuncio’s request, Cardinal Wuerl cancelled an event where potential seminarians would have met McCarrick, a spokesman confirmed The bombshell letter of “testimony” written by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, ...
Vigano’s Testimony May Have Just Foiled The Vatican's Plan To Bury The US Abuse Crisis

Vigano’s Testimony May Have Just Foiled The Vatican’s Plan To Bury The US Abuse Crisis

Two confidants of Pope Francis – Father Antonio Spadaro, S.J and the journalist Andrea Tornielli – have both sent out messages in recent days that Catholic faithful should not expect ...
Viganò Corroboration #1: Former Nunciature Official Says 'Vigano Said the Truth'

Viganò Corroboration #1: Former Nunciature Official Says ‘Vigano Said the Truth’

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Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, the former first counsellor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington D.C., has said that the former nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, told “the truth” in his explosive ...
Former Top Vatican Official Says Pope Should Resign Over Abuse Crisis

Former Top Vatican Official Says Pope Should Resign Over Abuse Crisis

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A former top Vatican official has accused Pope Francis of having known of allegations of sex abuse by a prominent U.S. cardinal for years and called on him to resign, ...
Cardinal Burke Responds to Former US Nuncio’s Explosive Letter about Pope Francis

Cardinal Burke Responds to Former US Nuncio’s Explosive Letter about Pope Francis

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“The corruption and filth which have entered into the life of the Church must be purified at their roots,” said Vatican Cardinal Raymond Burke in response to a LifeSite request ...
Wuerl's Latest Strategy: Run Away!

Wuerl’s Latest Strategy: Run Away!

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Late Saturday night, not long after Viganò’s letter was made public by LifeSiteNews, the Archdiocese of Washington’s secretary for communications, Edward McFadden, said: “In spite of what Archbishop Viganò’s memo ...
A Time Of Donkeys

A Time Of Donkeys

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I’m going to Italy early next month to give a series of talks about The Benedict Option, which has been published in Italian. This weekend, I was working on my speech, ...
The Pope's Response: What He Said and What He, Maybe, Really Said

The Pope’s Response: What He Said and What He, Maybe, Really Said

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On the airplane returning to Rome from Ireland, the Pope responded with a non-response to a question from the press about the Testimony issued by Archbp. Carlo Maria Viganò. What ...
Pope: ‘I Will Not Say a Single Word’ About Allegations of McCarrick Cover-Up

Pope: ‘I Will Not Say a Single Word’ About Allegations of McCarrick Cover-Up

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Pope Francis said Sunday that he will not comment on claims by a former Vatican ambassador to the U.S. that the Pope knew about allegations against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and ...
Pope Francis Covered-Up McCarrick Abuse, Former US Nuncio Testifies

Pope Francis Covered-Up McCarrick Abuse, Former US Nuncio Testifies

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What you are about to read is the explosive testimony of the former apostolic nuncio to the United States, implicating Pope Francis and several senior prelates in covering up Archbishop Theodore ...
Pope To US Church: You’re On Your Own

Pope To US Church: You’re On Your Own

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Well, there you have it: There are no new papal directives coming up on the subject of abuse and Francis is not preparing any new documents directed at the bishops ...
Abuse Survivor: Write ‘Zero-Tolerance’ into Canon Law

Abuse Survivor: Write ‘Zero-Tolerance’ into Canon Law

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Marie Collins said canon law had more often been used to protect the abuser than to punish him Canon law should be re-written to institute a global zero-tolerance policy against ...
Seton Hall Investigates Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Seminarians Involving McCarrick

Seton Hall Investigates Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Seminarians Involving McCarrick

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Seton Hall University began investigating allegations that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and other priests sexually abused young men at two of its seminaries. University President Dr. Mary Meehan published a letter ...
What New Jersey Bishops, Now Retired, Knew about McCarrick Settlements

What New Jersey Bishops, Now Retired, Knew about McCarrick Settlements

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What became known following a New York Timesinvestigation into two seminarians who said they had been abused by former-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is that settlements were reached with each man in ...
Missouri AG Launches Probe into Catholic Church Sexual Abuse

Missouri AG Launches Probe into Catholic Church Sexual Abuse

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Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced Thursday an investigation into clergy sex crimes within the Roman Catholic Church. The state’s top attorney will be given “unfettered” access to the records ...
New York AG Reaches Out to State DAs to Investigate Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse

New York AG Reaches Out to State DAs to Investigate Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse

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The state attorney general on Friday announced a preliminary step into investigating sex abuse by Catholic priests in New York in the wake of a grand jury investigation undertaken by ...
Illinois Launches Investigation into Catholic Dioceses After Pennsylvania Report

Illinois Launches Investigation into Catholic Dioceses After Pennsylvania Report

The investigation will include the Archdiocese of Chicago, which is headed by Cardinal Blase Cupich The Attorney General of Illinois is to set up a sex abuse enquiry in the ...
Why Priests Won’t Protest Violations of Clerical Celibacy

Why Priests Won’t Protest Violations of Clerical Celibacy

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Author’s note: The following essay is inspired by the testimonies of my brother priests along with elements of my own experience. It is not a testimonial nor does it reflect ...
Wyoming Police Reopen Case in Sex Abuse Claims Against former Kansas City Priest

Wyoming Police Reopen Case in Sex Abuse Claims Against former Kansas City Priest

Police in Cheyenne, Wyo., have reopened an investigation involving a former Kansas City priest who went on to become a Wyoming bishop and was later accused of sexually abusing several ...
Bishop Robert Morlino's Letter on the Homosexual Scandal in the Catholic Church

Bishop Robert Morlino’s Letter on the Homosexual Scandal in the Catholic Church

August 18, 2018 Dear brothers and sisters in Christ of the Diocese of Madison, The past weeks have brought a great deal of scandal, justified anger, and a call for ...
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