Publication: Washington Post
Facing Financial Boycott, Diocese of West Virginia Agrees to Hire New Auditor and Make Findings Public
A few days before protesting West Virginia Catholics were to begin withholding financial giving over alleged misconduct, diocesan leaders agreed to some of their demands, including hiring a new auditor ...
EPIC FAIL: Bishops Policing Bishops
Catholic faithful across the country have demanded accountability from their bishops for the past year as sexual abuse scandals unfolded at the highest levels of the church. On Thursday, the ...
This Archbishop Called on the Pope to Resign – Now He’s in an Undisclosed Location
In the instant he became one of the most controversial figures in modern Catholic Church history, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò went dark. The retired Vatican ambassador to Washington wrote a ...
Two Steps Forward and One Step Back Won’t Cleanse the Catholic Church
THE ESSENTIAL problem that gave rise to decades of clergy sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church was that bishops, whose authority over their domains is all but absolute, were ...
This Lent, Don’t Give Catholic Bishops A Dime
On Ash Wednesday, the holy season of Lent begins — and so do the annual fundraising drives by many of the nation’s Catholic bishops known as the bishops’ Lenten appeals ...
‘The Pope Ignored Them’: Alleged Abuse of Deaf Children on Two Continents Points to Vatican Failings
When investigators swept in and raided the religious Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf, they uncovered one of the worst cases yet among the global abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic ...
The Vatican Finally Needs to Offer More than Thoughts and Prayers on Sexual Abuse
IN A recent letter to U.S. bishops, Pope Francis called for a “change of mindset” to regain credibility forfeited by the Catholic Church after nearly two decades of temporizing, equivocation ...
Here’s Why You Should Care That McCarrick Won’t Get a Full Trial
Six months after the Archdiocese of New York first announced it had received a “credible” accusation of sexual abuse against then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the disgraced former archbishop of Washington could soon find ...
Pope Francis Failed to Handle the Sex Abuse Crisis in 2018 – Let’s Hope 2019 is Different.
Pope Francis did not have the year he thought he was going to have. It began this way: marked by sniping about his reform tendencies, especially where Catholic Church teaching ...
The Catholic Church Proves Incapable of Exorcising Clergy Sex Abuse — Again
IT IS EVIDENT that the Catholic Church is incapable on its own of exorcising the scourge of clergy sex abuse. The scandal raged unchecked for decades and, even after it ...
‘My Life Was Ruined’: A Sexual Abuse Protest that has Lasted 20 Years
There’s a honk. And then a thumbs-up. A wave, another thumbs-up. A flash-flash of headlights. Honk! Honk! “This is a good day,” declared protester John Wojnowski, who has been a ...
Want to Address Priest Sexual Abuse? The Catholic Church Needs to Overhaul its Seminaries
Although clergy sexual abuse scandals aren’t new, the ones that have rocked the Catholic Church this summer revolved around a group seldom focused on before: seminarians. The sexual harassment and ...
The Nation’s Investigations into the Catholic Church are Only Just Beginning
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) has shaken the Catholic Church to its foundation — and he is not finished yet. It has been nearly eight weeks since a Pennsylvania ...
Cardinal Wuerl Caught In Another Lie?
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who has said repeatedly that he didn’t know about years of sexual misconduct complaints involving his predecessor in the District, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, was named in a ...
Victims File Class Action Lawsuit in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Catholics are suing all eight dioceses in the state, claiming that Catholic leaders there systematically covered up ongoing sexual abuse by priests. A massive grand jury report released last ...
Bishop Michael Bransfield of West Virginia Resigns on Sexual Harassment Charges
Pope Francis has ordered an investigation of Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., in connection with sexual harassment charges and accepted his resignation, the Vatican announced Thursday. The pope ...
Cardinal Donald Wuerl Says He Will Go to Rome to Discuss his Potential Resignation
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who has faced increasing calls for his resignation over his handling of sexual abuse cases, wrote on Tuesday that he will soon discuss with Pope Francis the ...
Catholic Clergyman Calls on Wuerl to Resign, Says He’ll Refuse to Participate in Mass with Him
A highly visible member of Washington’s Catholic clergy has made a dramatic declaration calling on Cardinal Donald Wuerl to resign, the latest blow to Washington’s embattled archbishop. Sign the petition asking ...
New York Attorney General’s Office has Issued Subpoenas to every Catholic Diocese in the State
The New York attorney general’s office has issued subpoenas to every Catholic diocese in the state, becoming the latest U.S. state to embark on a major investigation of sex crimes ...
The Government Must Investigate the Catholic Church
When New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s very fine “Bad Religion” published a half-dozen years ago, I commented then that what was so amazing was that Douthat — a convert to Catholicism ...
Donald Wuerl: The Con Man in the Cardinal’s Cap
Sign the petition asking for Cardinal Wuerl's resignation The demands that Donald Wuerl be dismissed as archbishop of Washington and resign from the Roman Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals are proportionate in their degree of outrage ...
