Columnist: Inés San Martín
Argentine Abuse Victim Still Waiting for Justice from the Church
In 1992, two boys attending minor seminary in Parana, in northeastern Argentina, reported that Father Justo Ilarraz, spiritual director for the seminarians, had sexually abused them. The then-prefect of the ...
Spanish Bishops Announce Plan To Investigate Themselves On Sexual Abuse
Caving to pressure from abuse survivors, politicians and the media, the Spanish bishops announced on Tuesday that they will conduct a full, nation-wide investigation of clerical sexual abuse. Cardinal Juan ...
Scandal-Ridden Legionaries of Christ Named in Pandora Papers
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair have all been named in the exposé of the financial secrets and offshore dealings ...
Argentine Prelate, Friend of Pope Francis Faces Trial For Sexual Abuse
Argentine Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, a veteran prelate who once boasted of his friendship with the pope, will be tried criminally in October in his former diocese on allegations of sexual ...
Its Back to Work at the Vatican for Argentine Bishop Accused of Sexual Misconduct
As the Vatican resumed its activities after the two-month COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown, Crux has confirmed an Argentinian bishop suspended over allegations of sexual misconduct with seminarians quietly went back to ...
Despite Risks, Courageous Priests Serve The Faithful
Although the public celebration of the Mass has been suspended in much of the world to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, Catholic priests are still trying to minister ...
Virginia Priest In Battle With Bishop
In Oct. 2008, Father Mark White started a blog under his name in the hopes that his preaching would reach those who don’t go to church. Ever since, he’s written ...
Bishop Says Amazon Mission Should Not Begin With The Poor But With Jesus Christ
It’s admittedly a bit of a discordant note in a synod of bishops in which the Church’s social gospel, focused on the poor, the climate and the indigenous people of ...
Vatican Tells Argentinian Court Accused Bishop Has Job in Rome, Despite Being Suspended
Despite being investigated for allegations of having sexually abused two seminarians, an Argentinian bishop close to the pope has once again been allowed by a judge to travel to Rome ...
Argentina Prelate Says Clerical Abuse Crisis ‘Just Beginning’ In Pope’s Country
Although by now Catholics in some parts of the world have lived with the ferment caused by revelations of clerical sexual abuse for decades, a bishop who heads a commission ...
Ex-Seminarian Tells Sordid Story of Papal Ally’s Argentine Past
For some months now, the scandal surrounding Argentine Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, a friend of Pope Francis brought by the pontiff to Rome and given a key position in the Vatican’s ...
In New Interview, Pope Francis Claims He ‘Knew Nothing’ About McCarrick
In his first direct comments about the case of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Pope Francis said that “about McCarrick I knew nothing, obviously, nothing, nothing.” “I said it many times, ...