UPDATE 8/29: More from the Cupich interview. Has to be seen to be believed. The pattern is by now familiar. Serious criticisms are leveled by serious people against the pope; the pope ignores them; and his associates and defenders disregard the substance of the criticisms while flinging ad hominem attacks at the critics. This happened … [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…]
WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is setting the record straight regarding a controversial meeting between Pope Francis and Kim Davis in 2015. Davis, a marriage clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, became something of a conservative folk hero when she was jailed for refusing to issue same-sex wedding licenses. Her cause was bolstered after … [Read more…]