News & Commentary

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

The Final Battle

The Final Battle

The Wanderer, Tom Takash
In an interview in 2017, a few months before he died, retired Carlo Caffarra revealed that in 1983 he had received a handwritten note from Sr. Lucia, the lone survivor ...
WATCH: Corruption in the Vatican

WATCH: Corruption in the Vatican

This is the biggest financial scandal of the last 30 years in the Vatican. Not only because of its economic magnitude, but also because this time Pope Francis has decided ...
Archbishop Naumann Rebukes Cardinal McElroy: ‘A Most Serious and Dangerous Error’

Archbishop Naumann Rebukes Cardinal McElroy: ‘A Most Serious and Dangerous Error’

Catholic Culture, Staff
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City (KS) has joined Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver in critiquing Cardinal Robert McElroy’s recent call for “radical inclusion”—a call that includes a change in ...
Fordam University Housing Sex Abusers For Years

Fordam University Housing Sex Abusers For Years

Accounts from sex abuse victims reveal Fordham University has been a cushy hideaway for clerical sex abusers for more than half a century. In 2018, Richard Windmann, Ph.D., learned that ...
Portugal Report Details Decades of Sexual Abuse by Priests and Others Within the Catholic Church

Portugal Report Details Decades of Sexual Abuse by Priests and Others Within the Catholic Church

Thousands of children have been sexually abused by priests and others within the Catholic Church in Portugal since the 1950s, an independent commission announced Monday. The commission’s final report, authorized ...
Belgian Archbishop: The Fundamental Teachings of the Church Are Currently Under Threat

Belgian Archbishop: The Fundamental Teachings of the Church Are Currently Under Threat

Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard, the archbishop emeritus of Brussels-Mechelen and former primate of Belgium, has just published a book that will undoubtedly not go unnoticed in the Catholic world. L’Eglise dans ...
They’re Coming for Traditionalist Catholics

They’re Coming for Traditionalist Catholics

Back in 2017, when Amy Coney Barrett was undergoing confirmation hearings for her nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein expressed concern about Judge Barrett’s ...
Wave of Child Sex Abuse Claims Could Bankrupt Cardinal McElroy's Diocese

Wave of Child Sex Abuse Claims Could Bankrupt Cardinal McElroy’s Diocese

The Guardian, Staff
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego has said it may declare bankruptcy in the coming months as it faces “staggering” legal costs in dealing with some 400 lawsuits alleging ...
Bishop Barry Silent on FBI Targeting ‘Radical’ Catholics

Bishop Barry Silent on FBI Targeting ‘Radical’ Catholics

UPDATE: Knestout issues statement. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) as well as the Diocese of Richmond have remained conspicuously silent on Wednesday’s release of the bombshell memorandum from ...
Nothing To See Here: Pope Meets Privately With Beccui While He Is Being Prosecuted By Vatican Court

Nothing To See Here: Pope Meets Privately With Beccui While He Is Being Prosecuted By Vatican Court

Crux, John Allen
In the summer of 1971, no question before the U.S. Supreme Court was as contentious as the Pentagon Papers case, in which the Nixon administration sought to prevent the New ...
Cardinal McElroy Doubles-Down: Invokes Synodal ‘Process’ to Push LGBT Agenda

Cardinal McElroy Doubles-Down: Invokes Synodal ‘Process’ to Push LGBT Agenda

Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego has again invoked the “process of renewal” of the Synod on Synodality to justify greater inclusion in the Catholic Church of those who live ...
FBI Targeting ‘Radical’ Catholics

FBI Targeting ‘Radical’ Catholics

The FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of “white supremacy,” which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass. An ...
Germany’s Synodal Way Leader: Exclusion of Women From Ordination Drives Women From Church

Germany’s Synodal Way Leader: Exclusion of Women From Ordination Drives Women From Church

A leader of the controversial German Synodal Way said in a speech at Europe’s synod meeting Wednesday that the exclusion of women from ordination drives women from the Church. Irme ...
Jesuits Misbehaving Yet Again

Jesuits Misbehaving Yet Again

If there’s one thing that’s true of today’s Catholic Church, it’s that Jesuits gonna Jesuit. Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., America’s second-worst Jesuit, has a history of undermining Church teaching while ...
Cdl. Müller Says Pope Francis Revoked Penalties on Abusive Priests at the Request of Cardinals

Cdl. Müller Says Pope Francis Revoked Penalties on Abusive Priests at the Request of Cardinals

The former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Cardinal Gerhard Müller, has highlighted a culture of non-action in the Vatican when it comes to Italian ...
More Restrictions Coming on the Old Mass

More Restrictions Coming on the Old Mass

The Catholic internet is buzzing with rumors. Pope Francis is said to be unhappy with the less-than-strenuous implementation of his desired restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass. And so he ...
Holiness is the Antidote to Evil in the Church

Holiness is the Antidote to Evil in the Church

There may be few greater hindrances to believing in God and loving His Church than the offence caused by clerical sexual abuse. The latest scandals, and the arguably equally offensive ...
An Urgent Reminder About Scandal

An Urgent Reminder About Scandal

Barnhardt, Ann Barnhardt
Never, ever, ever conflate any person or earthly institution with Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is God-Man, or with the Supernatural reality that is His Holy Catholic Church, ...
Abuse Survivors' Attorneys Slam Rockville Centre Diocese Proposal of $200 Million Settlement

Abuse Survivors’ Attorneys Slam Rockville Centre Diocese Proposal of $200 Million Settlement

Newsday, Bart Jones
The Diocese of Rockville Centre on Friday proposed a settlement of up to $200 million to be paid to hundreds of survivors of clergy sex abuse as it works toward ...
Critics Slam Worcester Report Listing 173 Credible Abuse Allegations While Withholding Cleric Names

Critics Slam Worcester Report Listing 173 Credible Abuse Allegations While Withholding Cleric Names

Following a review of all cases of sexual abuse of minors since the establishment of the Diocese of Worcester in 1950, the diocese reported Friday that it had identified 173 ...
Francis Takes Final Shot at African Nations on His Departure: Reiterates Call to End Anti-Sodomy Laws

Francis Takes Final Shot at African Nations on His Departure: Reiterates Call to End Anti-Sodomy Laws

LifeSite News, Staff
In a novel in-air press conference with the head of the Church of England and the head of the Church of Scotland, Pope Francis repeated his remarks first made on ...
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