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

New Worcester Diocesan Law Reveals Appalling State of the Priesthood

New Worcester Diocesan Law Reveals Appalling State of the Priesthood

The Pillar, Staff
The fact this law even needed to promulgate is disgraceful. Bishop Robert McManus promulgated the new diocesan penal law March 24, warning that use of hookup app technology will lead ...
Dozens of Billboards Go Up Around Rome in Defense of the TLM

Dozens of Billboards Go Up Around Rome in Defense of the TLM

Starting this morning, and lasting for 15 days, several dozen billboards dedicated to the traditional liturgy will be posted near and around the Vatican. An organizing committee, whose members are ...
Defrocked Catholic Priest Accused of Molesting Boy Still Runs Charity For Kids

Defrocked Catholic Priest Accused of Molesting Boy Still Runs Charity For Kids

NBC News, Staff
A defrocked New York priest “credibly accused” of sexually abusing a minor runs a charity that provides scholarships to Catholic schools for underprivileged children, according to public records. John J ...
New Report Names Members of Archdiocese of Atlanta Accused of Sexually Abusing Minors

New Report Names Members of Archdiocese of Atlanta Accused of Sexually Abusing Minors

WSBTV, Staff
A report on the investigation of suspected sexual abuses by Roman Catholic priests was released this week, naming multiple priests who were a part of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Pete ...
Catholic University to Host Lecture by Lesbian Professor on ‘Ending White Christian America’

Catholic University to Host Lecture by Lesbian Professor on ‘Ending White Christian America’

Villanova University near Philadelphia is set to host a lecture by a Black lesbian LGBT activist on “the end of white Christian America.” Naomi Washington-Leapheart, an ordained minister in the ...
Married Priests? Here’s What The Early Church Taught About Priestly Celibacy

Married Priests? Here’s What The Early Church Taught About Priestly Celibacy

The concept of clerical celibacy is currently under attack, both from critics of the Church who seek to refute it as pointless and restrictive, but also from Pope Francis who ...
Heretic Cardinal McElroy Slams EWTN

Heretic Cardinal McElroy Slams EWTN

San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy sharply criticized the Eternal Word Television Network, the conservative Catholic U.S. media conglomerate, in an interview with Spanish magazine Vida Nueva published on March 24 ...
Why Do Heretics Remain in the Church?

Why Do Heretics Remain in the Church?

Fifty years ago, then-Fr. Joseph Ratzinger and Ida Friederike Görres were watching their era’s equivalent of a livestream of the implosion of the Church in Europe. And they were asking ...
Milwaukee Priest Barred From Hearing Confessions After Advocating To Break Seal Of Sacrament

Milwaukee Priest Barred From Hearing Confessions After Advocating To Break Seal Of Sacrament

The Pillar, Staff
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee announced Wednesday that a priest has lost the faculty to hear confessions validly, after he published an op-ed supporting a bill that would remove legal protections ...
Bishop Wilmer Calls for ‘Significant Changes in Sexual Morality in the Catholic Church’

Bishop Wilmer Calls for ‘Significant Changes in Sexual Morality in the Catholic Church’

The bishop of Hildesheim, Germany, who may still be named prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, recently published a letter stating that “it has become clear ...
Pope Francis Hoped to Convert the World, But Has the World Converted the Church?

Pope Francis Hoped to Convert the World, But Has the World Converted the Church?

The watching world loved it. Here was a friendly, informal sort, who eschewed the traditional vestments for the occasion and spoke to the vast assembly in the same way he ...
Catholic Deacon Sentenced for 'Enticing' Gay Minors to Have Sex

Catholic Deacon Sentenced for ‘Enticing’ Gay Minors to Have Sex

S. District Court Judge Eric R. Komitee March 15 sentenced a former deacon who once ministered at a parish in the Diocese of Brooklyn to 16 years in prison for ...
Oakland Diocese Considers Bankruptcy In Light Of Over 330 Sex Abuse Lawsuits

Oakland Diocese Considers Bankruptcy In Light Of Over 330 Sex Abuse Lawsuits

SFGate, Staff
The Diocese of Oakland is trying to get ahead of what appears to be around 330 looming clergy sexual abuse lawsuits, announcing they may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which ...
Albany Becomes 28th U.S. Diocese to Declare Bankruptcy

Albany Becomes 28th U.S. Diocese to Declare Bankruptcy

Times Union, Steve Hughes
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany on Wednesday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it grapples with the financial impact of hundreds of civil claims resulting from decades of child ...
WATCH: Cardinals Burke and Müller Denounce German Synod Debacle On Same-Sex Blessings

WATCH: Cardinals Burke and Müller Denounce German Synod Debacle On Same-Sex Blessings

Cardinals Raymond Burke and Gerhard Müller have openly condemned the decision by the German Synodal Way assembly to begin officially “blessing” sexual relationships between persons of the same sex. The ...
Belgian Bishop Says Pope Accepted Policy Allowing Same-Sex Blessings

Belgian Bishop Says Pope Accepted Policy Allowing Same-Sex Blessings

The Pillar, Staff
Immediately before participants in Germany’s “synodal way” voted in favor of same-sex blessings last Friday, they received a pep talk from a bishop in a neighboring country. Belgium’s Bishop John ...
Joe Biden Must Be The World’s Worst Catholic

Joe Biden Must Be The World’s Worst Catholic

Ruth Dudley Edwards
President Joe Biden’s self-delusion seems to be boundless. When he looks in the mirror, he apparently sees an upright Irish Catholic true to the historic values of his deeply rooted ...
Ten Terrible Years of Pope Francis

Ten Terrible Years of Pope Francis

Unherd, Damian Thompson
Ten years ago today, on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 13, 2013, the 115 cardinal-electors of the Catholic Church walked up one after the other to a table in the ...
Defrocked, Ex-Con Priest Who Stole $300K Now Heads NYC Nonprofits with City Contracts

Defrocked, Ex-Con Priest Who Stole $300K Now Heads NYC Nonprofits with City Contracts

A defrocked, ex-con priest who was a diocesan spin doctor at the height of the Catholic church’s sex abuse scandal now heads a pair of New York City nonprofits which have raked ...
Pope Francis Hints At Ending Thousand-Year-Old Priest Celibacy Rule Calling Ban 'Temporary'

Pope Francis Hints At Ending Thousand-Year-Old Priest Celibacy Rule Calling Ban ‘Temporary’

Express, Staff
Pope Francis has suggested that the Catholic Church could greenlight a review of its 1,000-year-old celibacy tradition. In a wide-ranging interview the Pope said the union of a priest and ...
German Bishops Declare ‘Transsexual’ Persons Should Not Be ‘Excluded’ From Priesthood

German Bishops Declare ‘Transsexual’ Persons Should Not Be ‘Excluded’ From Priesthood

The members of the heretical German Synodal Way have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a document replete with gender ideology that seeks to allow changing one’s listed sex on a ...
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