Publication: New York Times
Texas Priest Sentenced to Life in Prison for Sexual Assault
A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of felony sexual assault, according to local prosecutors and representatives of the 19th District ...
“Open Borders” Bishops Blast Trump Deportations Just Hours Before State of the Union Address
Hours before President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, which is expected to include comments on immigration enforcement, 18 Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops from U.S. border regions ...
Three Liberal Cardinals Blast Trump’s Foreign Policy
The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the United States said in a strongly worded statement on Monday that America’s “moral role in confronting evil around the ...
WATCH: How Pope Francis Catalyzed the Catholic Right in the U.S.
Pope Francis’ critics represent a minority of the American church but a powerful one. Ruth Graham, a reporter covering religion, faith and values for The New York Times, describes how ...
In the Pacific, a ‘Dumping Ground’ for Priests Accused or Convicted of Abuse
Over a decades-long period, more than 30 Catholic priests and missionaries moved to remote island nations after they had allegedly abused children in the West, or had been found to ...
Old Latin Mass Finds New American Audience, Despite Pope’s Disapproval
Eric Agustin’s eight children used to call the first day of the week “Party Sunday.” The family would wake up, attend a short morning Mass at a Catholic parish near ...
Catholic Officials on Edge After Reports of Priests Using Grindr
The reports hit the Roman Catholic Church in rapid succession: Analyses of cellphone data obtained by a conservative Catholic blog seemed to show priests at multiple levels of the Catholic ...
Pope Francis Is Tearing the Catholic Church Apart
In the summer of 2001, I drove up to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to find what we called “the traditional Latin Mass,” the form of Roman Catholic worship that stretched back centuries ...
Rockville Centre Becomes 25th U.S. Diocese to Declare Bankruptcy
Facing more than 200 lawsuits over sexual abuse allegations, the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island said on Thursday that it filed for bankruptcy, the largest Roman Catholic diocese ...
Theodore McCarrick and the Church’s Abuse Problem
Rain fell in New York City four days before Christmas of 2018. Francis M. had planned to be in the city that day for business, but he had dutifully put ...
Former French Priest Convicted of Abusing Dozens of Boy Scouts
Bernard Preynat, 75, received a five-year sentence after admitting to assaulting boys over a 20-year period, a scandal that embroiled a top cardinal. A former Roman Catholic priest in France ...
Pope Compares Anti-LGBT Politicians to Hitler
He said Friday that politicians who are enraged against homosexuals, gypsies and Jews remind Hitler. It is no accident that sometimes there is a resurgence of typical Nazi symbols, Francis ...
You Are Implying that the Pope Could Lead a Schism? Cardinal Burke: “Yes”
Excerpt from Ross Douthat's interview with Cardinal Burke: It was also in discussing the Amazonian synod that Burke brought up the specter that hangs over Francis-era debates, the idea of ...
The Slow Road to Catholic Schism
Some years ago, when I was younger and somewhat more excitable, I wrote a series of essays about Pope Francis’s liberalizing efforts, arguing that the supreme pontiff’s choices risked a schism in the Catholic ...
They Hoped the Catholic Church Would Reveal Their Abusers. They Are Still Waiting.
She has watched as diocese after diocese has identified Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children. She saw the victims who, after confronting decades of church silence, could edge toward a ...
New York Archdiocese Names 120 Catholic Clergy Members Accused of Abuse
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York on Friday identified 115 priests and five deacons who have been accused of sexually abusing a child in what is one of the ...
I Was Sexually Abused by a Catholic Priest. The Church Must Listen to Victims.
There is no greater pain than shame. I know. When I was a child, I was sexually abused by a Catholic priest. Trauma is the devil. It stays in the ...
Cupich and Company Accused of Withholding Names of at Least 500 Accused Priests
The Catholic Church in Illinois withheld the names of at least 500 priests accused of sexual abuse of minors, the state’s attorney general said Wednesday in a scathing report that ...
Lists of Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse Are Spilling Out Across the Country
It was a list Charles L. Bailey Jr. had wanted to see for years: the names of the priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse who had been credibly ...
Pope Expels Two Cardinals Implicated in Sex Abuse From His Council
The Vatican announced Wednesday that it had removed two cardinals implicated in sexual abuse cases from a powerful council of advisers picked by Pope Francis to guide him on matters ...
Sheep Without Shepherds
For ordinary Catholics, the failures of their leaders have created a two-decade test of faith. Here is a striking fact about the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. The ...
