Cardinal Donald Wuerl will no longer be joining Legatus, the organization of Catholic businessmen, in its September 7-10 pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine in Mexico. Sign the petition asking ...
A top official from the Vatican Secretariat of State acknowledged allegations made by a New York priest in 2000 concerning Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, according to a letter obtained by ...
The archbishop of Cincinnati has called for the Vatican’s dossier on McCarrick to be opened so that Archbishop Viganò’s allegations can be verified. Appearing on Holy Spirit Radio at the ...
His Holiness: Francis I Domus Sanctae Marthae Vatican City 00120 August 28, 2018 Your Holiness: I write this letter as a priest and as a pastor, but also as the ...
Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington on Thursday recognised calls for new leadership in the archdiocese, including from local priests, but did not say whether he was considering stepping down. Sign ...
From December 2, 2106: Advocates for clerical sex abuse victims expressed outrage Thursday that a priest accused of sexually abusing deaf children in Italy wasn’t sanctioned by the Vatican and ...
The names of accused clerics are being removed from the buildings of several colleges and high schools in Pennsylvania in the wake of the grand jury report detailing sex abuse ...
Christian Geyer, writing for the German national newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), is questioning Pope Francis’ silence on the Viganò allegations. “Shall the sexual violence about which people were silent ...
In many ways, actions speak louder than words. This is especially true when the action is the elimination of certain words. Such was the case with the Vatican’s recent removal ...
A prominent Catholic laywoman and lawyer has stated that the only way to “drive out this evil” of the sexual abuse crisis rocking the Catholic Church is for laity to “demand” ...
For keen insight into some of the malevolent forces at work in the Church right now, an unexpected source is a fascinating book by Father Charles Theodore Murr, titled, The ...
Argentine authorities raided a Catholic-run school for youths with hearing disabilities Thursday as part of an investigation into alleged sexual abuse of vulnerable children that has shocked Pope Francis’s homeland ...
The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office is seeking all documents related to potential abuse by priests and other clergy from all Catholic dioceses – Santa Fe, Gallup and Las Cruces ...
The New York attorney general’s office has issued subpoenas to every Catholic diocese in the state, becoming the latest U.S. state to embark on a major investigation of sex crimes ...
New Jersey will investigate allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, following a report by a grand jury in Pennsylvania that found more than 1,000 victims there over 70 years ...
Newly emboldened attorneys general across the United States have begun to take an aggressive stance toward investigating sex abuse by Catholic clergy, examining whether church officials covered up malfeasance, issuing ...
Open your files. This is the directive the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office has given to the state’s three Catholic dioceses. It comes in the wake of last month’s scathing grand jury ...
There are five considerations that seem to me to make it very likely that Archbishop Viganò’s testimony is truthful. To be sure, given how numerous and detailed are the claims he makes, it ...
The New York Attorney General’s Office will be investigating claims of child sex abuse within the New York dioceses of the Catholic Church. AG Barbara Underwood announced Thursday that her ...
Legatus, an influential association of Catholic business owners, has announced that it will be withholding an annual contribution to the Holy See. Thomas Monaghan, the founder and chairman of Legatus, ...
Vital Relevance of Fatima You may well be wondering: How do these cases of clergy sexual abuse/pastoral negligence have anything to do with Fatima? Well, do you recall what Benedict XVI stated ...
