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Australian Jury Convicts Bishop Of Sexually Abusing 2 Men
An Australian jury on Thursday convicted a former Catholic bishop renowned for hosting alcohol-fueled house parties of sexually abusing two young Indigenous men. The District Court of Western Australia jury ...
San Francisco Archdiocese Agrees to Pay $395 Million to Settle Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits
The San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese has agreed to pay $395 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by church officials, plaintiffs’ attorneys said Monday. San Francisco ...
Leo Wants Wealthy American Catholics To Keep Donating, In Spite Of The Vatican’s Troubling History With The Papal Foundation
Pope Leo XIV on Saturday encouraged some of the wealthiest U.S. Catholics to keep on giving to support his charitable works, in an audience that confirmed how the election of ...
Vatican Prosecutors In “Trial of the Century” Fail To Deposit Evidence By Deadline
Vatican prosecutors on Thursday seemingly defied an appeals court order to turn over to the defense all the evidence gathered in the Vatican’s big financial trial, setting the stage for ...
Vatican Launches Campaign to Encourage Divestment from Mining Industries
The Vatican on Friday launched a campaign to encourage divestment from mining industries, saying the Catholic Church should invest its money in ways that are consistent with its ecological teachings ...
Rhode Island: Dozens of Priests Molested Hundreds of Victims
Catholic priests in Rhode Island preyed on hundreds of children for decades, getting away with sexual abuse largely due to a system where bishops prioritized minimizing scandal as the diocese ...
In Minnesota, Archbishop Hebda Hosts Cardinals and Bishops in Protest of Trump’s Immigration Enforcement
Two American cardinals and the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. denounced the mass deportations in Minnesota under the federal government's immigration crackdown, but they urged everyone to repair strained relations ...
A Look at the Largest Clergy Abuse Settlements Reached by Catholic Organizations in the US
A New Jersey Catholic diocese outside Philadelphia has agreed to pay $180 million in a clergy sexual abuse settlement, the latest in a church scandal set off more than two ...
Pope Francis’ Problematic Secret Decrees in Spotlight in Vatican’s ‘Trial of the Century’
Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” argued Tuesday that Pope Francis inadvertently violated the fundamental rights of their clients by issuing four secret decrees that gave prosecutors ...
Leo Installs Pro-Immigrant Bishop In Trump’s Backyard
Is the Pope playing politics with U.S. papal appointments? Pope Leo XIV on Friday named the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, currently pastor of a predominantly Hispanic church in the ...
Pope Leo Claims Creation is ‘Crying Out’ For Urgent Climate Action
Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing ...
IT’S ABOUT TIME: U.S. Bishops Ban Gender-Affirming Care at Catholic Hospitals
U.S. Catholic bishops voted Wednesday to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals. The step formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to ...
Pope Leo Meets with Chicago Union Leaders, Urges Migrant Welcome
Pope Leo XIV urged labor union leaders from Chicago on Thursday to advocate for immigrants and welcome minorities into their ranks, weighing in as the Trump administration crackdown on immigrants ...
Vermont Diocese Struggles To Pay $1.5 Million In Legal Fees After Sexual Abuse Bankruptcy
A year after seeking to reorganize its depleting finances in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese is struggling to cover about $1.5 million and counting in related legal ...
Vatican Prosecutors Suffer Embarrassing Loss As Tribunal Says Their Appeal Is Inadmissible
The Vatican appeals tribunal put an end Thursday to prosecutors’ efforts to salvage their claims of massive fraud in the Holy See’s “Trial of the Century,” in which a once-powerful cardinal ...
Pope Leo Names Successor To Embattled New Orleans Archbishop
Bishop Checchio is an odd choice given his likely involved in the cover-up of McCarrick's sexual abuse. Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday named a successor to embattled New Orleans Archbishop ...
Witness-Tampering Allegations Turn Spotlight from Becciu to Vatican Prosecutor
Defense lawyers in the Holy See’s “trial of the century” asked the Vatican prosecutor to recuse himself from the appeals trial Monday, arguing he was implicated in questionable behavior according ...
‘Open Borders’ Catholic Leaders Continue Relentless Rant Against Trump’s Crackdown On Illegal Immigration
Are their boisterous protests primarily driven by the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding? A group of top U.S. Catholic bishops and nuns on the front lines of ...
Scandalous: LGBTQ+ Catholics Make Holy Year Pilgrimage to Rome
Over 1,000 LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome on Saturday, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church after long feeling ...
Pope Leo Meets With Homo-Heretic James Martin
Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, sending a strong signal of welcome ...
Pope Leo Marks Feast Day With Appeal to Help Erase Vatican’s Budget Shortfall
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American ...
