Clergy sex abuse is an evil that must be “named, investigated, and brought to light,” wrote the leader of Mount Angel Abbey. In a Sept. 5 letter emailed to supporters of the abbey and its seminary, Benedictine Abbot Jeremy Driscoll wrote that innocent victims suffered when clergy abused them and then again when bishops failed … [Read more…]
The former papal nuncio to the United States published a second statement Thursday reiterating his accusation that Pope Francis knew of the serial homosexual abuse of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick at least since 2013 yet made him “one of his principal agents in governing the Church.” Read article by Thomas D. Williams, PhD here: https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/28/vatican-whistleblower-insists-pope-francis-covered-for-abuser-mccarrick/
A report leaked by two German media outlets, Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, on Sept. 12 found that the German Catholic Church covered up at least 3,677 alleged cases of child sexual abuse by at least 1,670 clergymen from 1946 to 2014. Most of the victims were younger than 14 years old. Most were boys. … [Read more…]
I am a priest of eight years in good standing of the Archdiocese of Denver. About three weeks before the McCarrick scandal broke, I relayed reports of misconduct with children to Archbishop Aquila, and since then, I have been homeless and ignored by his chancery. After months of reaching out to them, I am now … [Read more…]
Graduates from from St. Johns’ in Camarillo , CA and their friends. Aren’t good shepherds suppose to protect the flock from the wolves? St. John Seminary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Seminary_(California)#Notable_alumni “If you were a molester, you got sent to one of three places – a poor Latino community, Mexico or the Diocese of Tucson,” said John Manly, who … [Read more…]
CHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) – The archdiocese of Chicago failed to inform a preschool and a grade school that a priest accused of child porn and child sex abuse was living nearby. In 2017, Fr. Richard McGrath was accused of viewing child porn on his cell phone during an event at Providence Catholic High School in the … [Read more…]
September 24, 2018 (Lumenfidei) – A priest and former seminary vocational growth counselor in Ireland has revealed for the first time the real reason he resigned from the country’s national seminary two years ago. Father David Marsden told Lumen Fidei in an exclusive interview about the existence of a powerful “gay” subculture in St Patrick’s … [Read more…]
Want irony? Burning the U.S. flag is still protected under the First Amendment as “symbolic speech.” But try burning the notorious rainbow flag of the so-called “LGBTQIA community,” as Chicago priest Fr. Paul Kalchik just did? Your cardinal-archbishop, Blase Cupich, will try to burn you. Coverage of Kalchik’s brave act and Cupich’s vindictive response is … [Read more…]
(RNS) — As the sexual abuse scandal surrounding Cardinal Theodore McCarrick continued to spread in the past week, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, who heads the Catholic Church’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, acknowledged on Monday (July 23) that “a major gap still exists in the church’s policies on sexual conduct and sexual abuse.” O’Malley, … [Read more…]
Petition for Cardinal Cupich to resign. Please pray for him. Amen https://www.change.org/p/cardinal-cupich-must-resign