Columnist: Joseph Hanneman
Former Altar Boy Recounts Years of Rape, Sexual Abuse by His Parish Priest
Fourteen-year-old Robert O'Donnell sat with his parents for Holy Mass at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church on the city's north side. A freshman at Quincy Notre Dame Catholic High ...
False Shepherd, Part I: The Figure Eight
They called it the Figure Eight. Homosexual men cruising for sex partners in Springfield, Ill., drove a regular route around the downtown Amtrak station. East on Washington Street to Fifth ...
Videos Allegedly Show Illinois Priests Engaged in Homosexual Acts
Home videos discovered in the basement of a Catholic church in south central Illinois show up to a dozen local priests dressed in drag and engaging in homosexual acts, according ...
Bishop Morlino Condemns “Homosexual Subculture” in the Hierarchy
Bishop Robert C. Morlino decried the “homosexual subculture within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church” in a letter to his flock of more than 280,000 on Aug. 18, suggesting the ...