Complicit Clergy

Lansing Priest Faculties Removed After Report of Underage Grindr Encounter

October 13, 2022 from The Pillar by Michelle La Rosa

A priest in the Diocese of Lansing has had his faculties removed after a report that he engaged in sexual activity with a 16-year-old boy whom he met on the hookup app Grindr. An Oct. 13 statement from the diocese said Fr. Shaun Lowery is seeking laicization after resigning as pastor of Saint Mary Magdalen … Read more

The Vatican and IDI Financial Scandal: A CNA Explainer

December 17, 2019 from Catholic News Agency by Michelle La Rosa

For more than a year, CNA has been following a Vatican financial scandal involving a bankrupt Italian hospital, a potentially illicit loan from the Vatican’s central bank, and a controversial grant request to an American charitable foundation. The financial scandal is one of several unfolding at the Vatican, and covered by CNA. Having trouble keeping … Read more