Publication: Crux
Nothing To See Here: Pope Meets Privately With Beccui While He Is Being Prosecuted By Vatican Court
In the summer of 1971, no question before the U.S. Supreme Court was as contentious as the Pentagon Papers case, in which the Nixon administration sought to prevent the New ...
LAUGHABLE: Catholic Immigrant Advocates Deny Claims of Facilitating Illegal Crossings
Immigrant advocacy organizations in Texas say they have not yet been contacted by state Attorney General Ken Paxton after he pledged to launch an investigation this week, at the request ...
Santa Rosa Will Become 27th U.S. Diocese to Declare Bankruptcy
Soon into the new year, the Diocese of Santa Rosa, California, will join a growing list of U.S. Catholic dioceses to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it faces a ...
Vatican’s Star Witness Testimony in ‘Trial of the Century’ May Just Have Backfired on Pope Francis
Just when you think that the Vatican’s “trial of the century” against a cardinal and nine other defendants for various alleged financial crimes can’t get any more surreal, two developments ...
Pope Takes Control of Church’s Largest Charity
To the surprise of many inside the organization, Pope Francis essentially placed the Catholic Church’s largest charitable organization into receivership Tuesday, removing its current leadership and appointing an interim administrator ...
Maryland Probe Finds 158 Abusive Priests, Over 600 Victims
An investigation by Maryland’s attorney general identified 158 Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore who have been accused of sexually and physically abusing more than 600 victims over the ...
Buffalo Diocese Agrees to Secular Oversight of Abuse Allegations
Bishops Richard Malone and Edward Grosz banned from holding any fiduciary role with a charity for life. The Diocese of Buffalo has agreed to enact more secular oversight of its ...
Michigan Priest Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Second-Grade Boy
A Catholic priest has been convicted of sexual assaulting a 7-year-old boy in 2004 in a Detroit-area church. A Wayne County jury convicted Father Joseph “Jack” Baker on Thursday on ...
Santa Fe Archdiocese Files Plan for $121M Abuse Settlement
One of the oldest Catholic dioceses in the U.S. has filed its bankruptcy reorganization plan to compensate nearly 400 clergy abuse survivors with more than $121 million. A federal bankruptcy ...
Steubenville Bishop Seeks Merger with Diocese of Columbus
An omen of decline for the Catholic Church in America When Bishop Jeffrey Monforton arrived to the Diocese of Steubenville in 2012 some people asked him if he would suppress ...
Homopredator Priest Sentenced to 30 Years For Abusing Children
Spain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a 30-year prison sentence a lower court had imposed on Pedro Jiménez Arias, a former priest, for sexually abusing seven boys he taught at ...
McCarrick Case Drags Over A Year After His Arraignment
Just more than a year after ex-cardinal and ex-priest Theodore McCarrick was arraigned in a Massachusetts criminal court on assault and battery charges, proceedings continue on without an imminent conclusion ...
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 ...
Cardinal Pell Calls for Vatican Reprimand Over Sexuality Remarks
Cardinal George Pell has called for the Vatican’s doctrine office to intervene and reprimand two leading European Catholic churchmen who called for changes in Catholic teaching on sexuality and homosexuality ...
Bishop Banned From Public Ministry In Diocese He Formerly Led
The former bishop of the Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota, Bishop Michael Hoeppner, will not return to do any ministry in the diocese and will have his retirement compensation cut, 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 ...
CatholicVote Files Suit To Obtain Information About Catholic Charities Involvement In Illegal Immigration
CatholicVote, an independent political advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration seeking information about how the government and church-affiliated groups, mainly in the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, ...
Merry Christmas Peasants – Get Vaxed or No Pay!
As COVID cases continue to rise in Italy due to the new Omicron variant, the Vatican on Thursday imposed a vaccine mandate, issuing a decree requiring all employees to possess ...
A Tough Week for Pope Francis
Every leader has stretches he or she probably would like to forget. Mid-August, for instance, was one of those times for US President Joe Biden, as the chaos of the ...
Never Mind Sacrilege and Scandal – Its All About ‘Tone’
As the nation’s bishops convene this week for their first in-person general assembly in two years, the in-person conversations on a controversial document on the Eucharist have taken a different ...
Biden Receives Communion in Rome Amid Debate in US
President Joe Biden received Communion at St. Patrick’s Church, Rome’s American parish, during Saturday Vigil Mass, a day after saying Pope Francis told him he should continue to partake in ...
