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

WATCH: Catholic Bishops Accused of Aiding Human Smugglers With Migrant 'Charity'

WATCH: Catholic Bishops Accused of Aiding Human Smugglers With Migrant ‘Charity’

mrcTV, Ken Meekins
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has been receiving taxpayer money in order to subsidize the travel and lodging of migrants for decades while enabling the human trafficking crisis ...
Why Change Is Francis’ Only Constant

Why Change Is Francis’ Only Constant

Many pundits and Vaticanists are scratching their heads and wracking their brains in the attempt to make sense of Pope Francis’ cardinal picks, the appointment of Fernandez to the doctrinal ...
How The Jesuits Could Have Laicized Accused Serial Sex Abuser Marko Rupnik

How The Jesuits Could Have Laicized Accused Serial Sex Abuser Marko Rupnik

The Pillar, Ed Condon
The Society of Jesus on Monday released a letter on the case of Fr. Marko Rupnik, the disgraced religious artist and priest who was expelled from the order earlier this ...
‘Catholics for Choice’: The Ultimate Oxymoron

‘Catholics for Choice’: The Ultimate Oxymoron

Whatever happened to discrimination? When I was growing up, which really wasn’t all that long ago, we were pretty good at it. People were either fat or thin, tall or ...
Syracuse Diocese Announces $100 Million Sexual Abuse Settlement

Syracuse Diocese Announces $100 Million Sexual Abuse Settlement

Associated Press, Staff
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse on Thursday announced a $100 million settlement with people who say they were sexual abuse victims as part of its bankruptcy proceedings. Catholic dioceses ...
Sex Abuse Revelations Unwelcome Distraction as Pope Francis Visits Scandal-Hit Portugal

Sex Abuse Revelations Unwelcome Distraction as Pope Francis Visits Scandal-Hit Portugal

When a panel of experts read aloud some of the harrowing accounts they had collected from recently discovered victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church, the country’s ...
Vatican Prosecutor Seeks 7 Years in Jail for Cardinal, Confiscation of $460 Million from 10 Defendants

Vatican Prosecutor Seeks 7 Years in Jail for Cardinal, Confiscation of $460 Million from 10 Defendants

The Vatican prosecutor asked a court Wednesday to convict 10 people, including a cardinal, of a range of financial crimes, sentence them to three to 13 years in prison and ...
After Meeting with Bishop, Organizers Hope LGBTQ Mass in Pittsburgh May Happen

After Meeting with Bishop, Organizers Hope LGBTQ Mass in Pittsburgh May Happen

Crux, John Lavenburg
About a month after Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh cancelled a Mass in solidarity with LGBTQ Catholics, the organization that planned the Mass says they have met with Zubik and ...
Vatican Podcast Featuring Pope Francis Claims Young People are Characterized by ‘Sexual Fluidity’

Vatican Podcast Featuring Pope Francis Claims Young People are Characterized by ‘Sexual Fluidity’

In what appears to be a granting of legitimacy to “transgender ideology,” Pope Francis featured in a Vatican podcast which claimed that young people today are “characterized by technological advance, ...
Professor Rist: The Catholic Church Could Be Facing a Crisis Worse Than the Arian Controversy of the 4th Century

Professor Rist: The Catholic Church Could Be Facing a Crisis Worse Than the Arian Controversy of the 4th Century

The recent suspension of an Italian priest for writing a scholarly critique of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia was a foolish and “wholly unjust” decision but one that underlines ...
Bishop John Dolan of Phoenix Claims ‘LGBTQ Catholics’ Have a ‘Sacred Identity’

Bishop John Dolan of Phoenix Claims ‘LGBTQ Catholics’ Have a ‘Sacred Identity’

Bishop John Dolan of the Phoenix diocese in Arizona made this claim in a recent article published by Outreach, a pro-homosexual website that Jesuit sodomy activist Fr. James Martin launched ...
Catholic Campaign for Human Development Closes all Communication, Refuses to Answer Questions

Catholic Campaign for Human Development Closes all Communication, Refuses to Answer Questions

Over the weekend, the Lepanto Institute received a letter from Bishop Timothy Senior, current chairman of the subcommittee for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), slamming the door on ...
Christopher Ferrara: "Francis Is an Open Enemy of Catholicism"

Christopher Ferrara: “Francis Is an Open Enemy of Catholicism”

“Disaster” is the only word for Francis’ pontificate, Christopher Ferrara told Gloria.tv at the Roman Forum in Gardone, Italy (video below). Ferrara is a famous New York lawyer who prevailed ...
Francis Has Systematically Dismantled John Paul II's Legacy

Francis Has Systematically Dismantled John Paul II’s Legacy

Rorate Caeli, Staff
If there was ever a pope whose legacy within the Church seemed irreversible, it was Pope St. John Paul II. At his funeral Mass on April 8, 2005, which set ...
The Orwellian Synod

The Orwellian Synod

Even though there are new elements in the neo-progressivism of today, that it is a recurrence of the older narrative but now decked-out in the verbiage of “discernment”, “accompaniment”, “inclusion”, ...
North Dakota Priest Who Sexually Assaulted Woman Receives No Jail Time In Plea Deal

North Dakota Priest Who Sexually Assaulted Woman Receives No Jail Time In Plea Deal

BoingBoing, Rob Beschizza
Neil Joseph Pfeifer, 48, a Catholic priest in Napoleon, North Dakota, sexually assaulted a woman in his care. He was originally charged with sexual assault by a therapist, a felony, ...
Ailing Pope Francis Hurries to Bolster His Progressive Legacy

Ailing Pope Francis Hurries to Bolster His Progressive Legacy

Pope Francis is moving to shore up his progressive legacy as his health problems increase, making key appointments that could shape the Catholic Church well past the end of his pontificate. Following hospitalizations in ...
Revolution From the Top in the Catholic Church

Revolution From the Top in the Catholic Church

If personnel is policy, as corporate consultants proclaim, then two of Pope Francis’ most recent appointments reflect his goal to impose his vision on the Catholic Church at the expense ...
Bishop Strickland: 'They Won't Stop Me'

Bishop Strickland: ‘They Won’t Stop Me’

The Pillar, Staff
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas said Wednesday that a Vatican-ordered review of his leadership was undertaken last month because of his willingness to “preach the truth,” adding that it ...
WATCH: Defund the Bishops Press Conference

WATCH: Defund the Bishops Press Conference

Your browser does not support the video tag. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, a coalition of nearly a dozen Catholic groups is demanding U.S. bishops be denied taxpayer dollars, owing to ...
Lay Group Asks Vatican for Removal of Fort Worth Bishop

Lay Group Asks Vatican for Removal of Fort Worth Bishop

A group upset with decisions made by Bishop Michael Olson has sent a petition to Rome calling for his removal or resignation. Steve Knobbe, president of the Laity in Unity ...
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