A group upset with decisions made by Bishop Michael Olson has sent a petition to Rome calling for his removal or resignation. Steve Knobbe, president of the Laity in Unity Foundation said in an interview Friday morning that the petition and letter were sent to the Vatican and to the the Vatican’s ambassador to the … Read more
The Vatican is seeking clarity after the former director of its U.S. missionary fundraising office oversaw the transfer of at least $17 million of its endowment and donations into a new nonprofit and private equity fund that he created and currently manages, The Associated Press has learned. The new management of the Pontifical Mission Societies … Read more
Your browser does not support the video tag. The Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador has approved the sale of 42 properties belonging to the local Roman Catholic Church to pay survivors of sexual abuse at the former Mount Cashel orphanage. Among the properties changing hands is the sprawling, 167-year-old Basilica of St. John … Read more
The Supreme Court of Georgia has ruled that the victim of alleged sexual abuse by a priest at Marietta’s Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church can sue not only the church, but the archdiocese and archbishop of Atlanta. The decision overrules a lower court’s ruling that the allegations — by an altar boy who said he was … Read more
Giuseppe remembers the day his mother betrayed him. He was 12 years old and his parish priest in the southern Italian town of Salerno forced him to touch his erect penis. Giuseppe remembers the starchy black cloth of the priest’s cassock and how at first he thought maybe the priest was hiding a toy for … Read more
The successful transmission Report conducted by Sigfrido Ranucci and broadcast on the third channel of national television returns to deal with the Vatican and discovers what is perhaps one of the most paradoxical investments in the recent history of the Church. APSA, the’ body of the Holy See in charge of its economic asset management, … Read more
Pope Francis has formally stripped the Vatican secretariat of state of its financial assets and real estate holdings following its bungled management of hundreds of millions of euros in donations and investments that are now the subject of a corruption investigation. Francis signed a new law over the weekend ordering the secretariat of state to … Read more
Donors contend Vann hatched an illegal plan to “invade” endowment funds and flout their wishes. The FedEx envelopes landed at dawn on the doorsteps of some of Orange County’s most influential Catholic philanthropists — real estate developers, attorneys, CEOs and other church stalwarts who had raised tens of millions of dollars over the years for … Read more
Jesuit authorities for 20 US states on Monday released the names of 89 priests with credible allegations of child sexual abuse dating as far back as 1950. The disclosures by the Jesuit provinces of Maryland and USA Midwest are the latest chapter in the ongoing sexual abuse scandal roiling the Catholic Church and come after … Read more