CHILE, October 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chilean prosecutors are currently investigating 126 Catholic clergy or members of religious orders accused of sexually preying on minors and adults, following an explosion of protests over Pope Francis’ support of a Chilean bishop accused of complicity in sex abuse in January of this year. As is the case … [Read more…]
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – Cardinal Gerhard Müller has acknowledged that Pope Francis personally halted a high-level investigation into clerical sex abuse. In an interview with LifeSiteNews on Tuesday, Müller confirmed recent reports that just months into his papacy, Francis personally blocked an investigation into sex abuse allegations against U.K. Cdl. Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. Read more here: … [Read more…]
Catholics lash out at church leaders with their wallets (you can too!) Posted on October 3, 2018 by OVD Administrator Catholics lash out at church leaders with their wallets https://www.marketwatch.com/story/catholics-skip-the-collection-plate-amid-moral-catastrophe-of-pennsylvanias-sex-abuse-cover-up-2018-08-20 ( You can too!…) For your convenience, this PDFhttp://ourvoiceinthediocese.com/ovd/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20181003_non_cathedraticum.pdf is printable with the following useful text: This donation is not part of the normal Sunday … [Read more…]
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (ChurchMilitant.com) – A lay group in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is calling on their archbishop to prohibit a dissident priest from speaking at a pro-gay retreat. Catholics United for the Faith Milwaukee (CUF) put out a “resolution” online calling on Milwaukee’s Abp. Jerome Listecki to bar Fr. Bryan Massingale from taking part in a dissident … [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…]