October 1, 2018 A Kansas elementary school says it had no idea that a former Catholic cardinal alleged to have abused several young men over the course of several decades was placed in a rectory just next door, KansasCity.com reports. Theodore McCarrick resigned as a cardinal back in July after a review board discovered credible … [Read more…]
Prayer and fasting disarms the devil. Why would a priest tell people not to do it? By Patti Armstrong I was irritated when Pope Francis called for every member of the Church to “pray and fast in penance for the evil of clerical sex abuse, and to be involved in needed change within the Church” … [Read more…]
Former cardinal had been a proponent of a deal between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Church under Pope Francis. Following reports that the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China could be about to sign an agreement on the appointment of bishops in the country, attention has turned to the role of Archbishop … [Read more…]
Finally. It seems the Catholic hierarchy — as in just about every bishop in the United States — has finally realized some of their dirty secrets are not so secret anymore. With the dismissal of Cdl. “Uncle Ted” McCarrick from ministry in June, all of a sudden prominent Catholics are publicly saying what many long-suffering, … [Read more…]
Five things every Catholic can do to end the abuse crisis By Dr. Jeff Mirus (bio – articles – email) | Sep 14, 2018 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/articles.cfm?id=752 When I wrote that faithful Catholics “need to spend more time in prayer and sacrifice than in advocacy for a papal resignation” (see Pope Francis: The resignation scenario), I received … [Read more…]
The elite are quickly dismissing written testimony from an archbishop because they think it’s all about hating the gays. A former Vatican Ambassador to the United States asserts that Pope Francis allowed a serial pederast to continue as a cardinal of the church, even undoing sanctions imposed by Pope Benedict on that cardinal. A newspaper … [Read more…]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (ChurchMilitant.com) – Pope Francis, currently sporting a zero-tolerance policy in Rome, was known more for his zero-transparency policy concerning clerical sex abuse as the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1989, Sebastián Cuattromo, a student at a Catholic school in Buenos Aires, was the victim of homosexual predation by a teacher at … [Read more…]