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Former Catholic Ambassador Defrocked Over Abuse
This story has been brewing for almost a year. Last summer, the Vatican’s nuncio (aka ambassador) to the Dominican Republic, archbishop* Józef Wesołowski, resigned last summer while under investigation...
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Abuse Victim Resigns from Vatican Panel
I can’t really say this story surprises me. Pope Francis’s “abuse commission” was doomed from the moment he announced its creation, several years ago. There is no way any such group was ever going to...
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New York Archdiocese Starved for Money to Pay Abuse Victims
Fallout from the worldwide Catholic clerical abuse scandal continues raining down all over the place. The latest example comes from New York City, whose archdiocese wants to borrow money to improve...
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Australian Catholic Prelate Charged in Pedophilia Scandal
Like many countries, Australia has been investigating how the Roman Catholic Church (along with other groups) handled child abuse by clerics in its ranks. Over the last couple years, the man who’d been...
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Vatican Diplomat Caught in Kiddie Porn Case
The Roman Catholic Church obviously has a major problem. It’s been decades in the making, and has been on the front burner of occidental society for going on 20 years now. But it doesn’t seem to go...
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Protector of “Priestly Pedophilia” in Boston Archdiocese Dies
By now most of my readers will have heard that Cardinal Bernard Law, former Archbishop of Boston, died in Vatican City (Archive.Is cached article). He was famous as one of the targets of the Boston...
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Retired Cardinal Sidelined by Credible Abuse Allegation
The worldwide Catholic clerical child-abuse scandal continues making headlines. Although R.C. clergy abusing children is an age-old problem, this particular scandal reared its head in 2002 when the...
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McCarrick Resigns as Cardinal
I’ve blogged a couple times about the retired Cardinal of Washington DC Theodore McCarrick, and his past assaults on seminarians and children. The Catholic Church had already removed him from the...
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Catholic Theologian Blames Priestly Pedophilia on Three Bogeymen
The Pennsylvania grand jury’s interim report on “priestly pedophilia” in the commonwealth has proven jarring, to say the least. Most people — Catholic and otherwise — have condemned what took place. A...
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Satan Abused Kids & Seminarians, Not Priests
I never cease to be amazed by the chutzpah shown by Roman Catholic apologists. They simply cannot admit their own Church has any faults. They’re so pathological about it, that no excuse is too...
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More Accusations Rock Another Catholic Diocese
Back in 2002 the Catholic Church in the US was rocked by revelations, published by the Boston Globe, that the archdiocese of Boston had moved priests they knew had abused children (including the...
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German Catholic Church Report Describes “Priestly Pedophilia”
Yet another country was plagued by the worldwide Catholic clerical child-abuse scandal. (At this point, it’s safe to assume it’s been part of Catholic life in every country the Church has a meaningful...
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Accused Abuser & Influential Chilean Priest Finally Defrocked
I’ve blogged a few times about the implosion of the Chilean Catholic Church. Much of the controversy there surrounds a priest, Fernando Karadima, who was accused of abusing children, but because he was...
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How Poor Is the Catholic Church’s Judgement?
I’ve already blogged a few times about the former Cardinal of Washington Theodore McCarrick. He reportedly abused a minor, as well as more than one seminarian, during his long and influential career as...
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Pope Francis May Be Embroiled in His Own Scandal
The worldwide Catholic clerical child-abuse scandal, aka “priestly pedophilia,” has been going on for nearly two decades, and sadly, there doesn’t appear to be any letup. Revelations of decades-old...
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Another Hierarch Bites the Dust
Fallout from the Pennsylvania grand jury report released nearly two months ago continues. It’s now cost the job of a powerful hierarch. As the Washington Post reports, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop...
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Two Chilean Bishops Have Been Defrocked
The scandal of “priestly pedophilia” in Chile continues to generate news. The latest item, as the New York Times reports, is that two bishops from that country have been summarily defrocked...
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Feds Investigating “Priestly Pedophilia” in PA
Back when a redacted version of the Pennsylvania grand jury report into “priestly pedophilia” in the commonwealth was released, I said a federal investigation of the Roman Catholic Church was in order,...
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Pope Says Abuse Scandal Is “Persecution” of Church
Since he was elected by the College of Cardinals in 2013, Pope Francis has veered all over the place with regard to the two-decade-old worldwide Catholic clerical abuse scandal. At times, he’s...
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“60 Minutes” Reports on Diocesan Whistleblower
The Justice Department has launched investigations into a number of dioceses in the US. One of them is that of Buffalo, NY (locally-cached article). It’s not exactly new, though — records were...
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DC Parish Mired in “Priestly Pedophilia” Scandal
One of the more common protests made by Catholic apologists, regarding the worldwide “priestly pedophilia” scandal, is that it’s a “historical problem.” As in, “it’s ‘history’,” a thing of the past,...
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USCCB Head May Have Protected Two Abusive Priests
When it rains, it pours — apparently — for the Roman Catholic Church. In the middle of August, a grand jury report on “priestly pedophilia” in most of Pennsylvania’s dioceses was released. Following...
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Illinois Dioceses Failed to Acknowledge Hundreds of Abusive Priests
Among the tactics employed by the Roman Catholic Church, in the face of the colossal child-abuse scandal that’s wracked it, around the world, for some two decades now, is minimization. That is, when...
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Pope Francis Takes One Tiny Step Forward
Something I have called for the Pope to do, concerning the worldwide Catholic clerical child-abuse scandal, is for him to order all abusive clergy to turn themselves in to local authorities, confess...
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Hartford Archdiocese Will Hold “Priestly Pedophilia” Masses
I’ve been watching the Roman Catholic Church for … well, my entire life! I was, after all, raised Catholic, and am a student of medieval history too. So it goes without saying that I’m very aware of...
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Hartford Archdiocese Releases List of Abusive Priests
A few weeks ago the Archdiocese of Hartford promised to release a list of credibly-accused abusive priests. They made good on that promise earlier this week, posting the list to their own Web site...
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Anatomy of a Priestly Pedophile
The Archdiocese of Hartford’s release of a list of likely abusive priests and the fact that they spent just over $50 million, since the mid-50s, to settle their victims’ cases, has had some effect....
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Cardinal DiNardo Is Really a Class Act … Not!
I just came across a story which is almost (but not quite) beyond belief. This past Thursday, the Roman Catholic dioceses in Texas released lists of priests who’d had credible accusations of abuse —...
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Norwich Diocese Releases List of Accused Priests
A couple weeks ago, the Archdiocese of Hartford here in Connecticut released a list of priests it had determined had been “credibly” accused of abusing kids. Well, as The Day of New London reports,...
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German Cardinal Confesses to Church’s Sleazy Tactics
For a very long time, we’ve long known some of the unsavory ways Roman Catholic hierarchs dealt with the worldwide priestly-abuse scandal. At this weekend’s conference of Catholicism’s princes in the...
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Cardinal Pell Convicted of Abusing Children, Back in December
I’ve blogged a few times about Cardinal George Pell, once Australia’s chief Catholic prince. He’d been Archbishop of Sydney until early 2014, when Pope Francis brought him to the Vatican to become,...
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WV Attorney General Takes Action Against Diocese
Fallout from the stunning Pennsylvania grand jury report continues trickling in. The latest ramification of it comes from West Virginia. The New York Times reports that state’s Attorney General is...
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Former Pope Blames “Sexual Revolution”&“Homosexual Cliques” for Scandal
I’m not sure why he felt the need to do so, but former Pope (or Pope Emeritus) Benedict XVI decided to speak out about “priestly pedophilia.” He’s been out of office for some six years now, and hadn’t...
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Pope Francis’s Dictate Doesn’t Change a Thing
The world’s news media reported a few days ago on a supposedly-groundbreaking announcement: Pope Francis made a change to canon law that concerns reporting abuse and cover-up of abuse within the Roman...
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Catholic Organization Helps & Hides Priests Accused of Abuse
We all know the Roman Catholic Church itself has worked hard to protect clergy accused of abuse. A hallmark of the worldwide “priestly pedophilia” scandal is the practice of “priest shuffling,” wherein...
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More Revelations of Abuse Among Jehovah’s Witnesses
I’ve blogged a number of times about various aspects of the Christian sect known as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It’s a strange, tight-knit version of Christianity — even though a lot of other sorts of...
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Wrongdoing Revealed in Bridgeport, CT Diocese
The other shoe has dropped for the Roman Catholic diocese of Bridgeport (in my home state of Connecticut), with regard to the worldwide Catholic child-abuse scandal. A year ago, Bishop Frank Caggiano...
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Clerical Predators Still Getting to Kids Even After Leaving R.C. Church
In the wake of last year’s grand jury report out of Pennsylvania, Roman Catholic dioceses and orders around the country have commissioned reports and released lists of “credibly accused” clergy, hoping...
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Catholocism’s Vaunted Reforms Are a Failure
Back in 2002, in the wake of the Boston Globe‘s “Spotlight” series exposing “priestly pedophilia” in that city’s archdiocese, America’s R.C. bishops scrambled to respond. Among the measures implemented...
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Catholic Order Let Abusive Priests Run Amok
Sadly, the scandal of Roman Catholic clergy abusing children (and sometimes adults) and being protected or even enabled by their superiors continues apace. It’s raged around the globe for some two...
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Bishop of Buffalo Resigns Over Scandal
I’ve blogged a couple times about the assorted reprehensible shenanigans going on in the diocese of Buffalo, NY. Well, it took awhile, but as the Religion News Service reports, the Catholic princeling...
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Unsurprisingly, Abusive Clergy Were Left Out of Church Reports
Since the release late last year of Pennsylvania’s grand jury report into the “priestly pedophilia” scandal in that state, US bishops have released lists of clergy they’ve deemed “credibly accused,” in...
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Faulty Catholic Disclosures Are Even More Faulty than You Thought
I’ve already blogged about some deficiencies in American Catholic hierarchs’ self-reports of clergy the typically call “credibly accused” of abuse. It turns out, the flaws in these self-reports appear...
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Bishop Lahey Gets Light Sentence Over Child Porn
I’ve already blogged about the case of Raymond Lahey, erstwhile Catholic bishop of Antigonish (NS), who was found to have had child porn on his computer. He pleaded guilty, and the CBC reports on his...
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Jesuits Reach Settlement Over Abuse Claims
News continues to trickle in concerning the worldwide clerical child-abuse scandal which has dogged the Roman Catholic Church for at least a decade. The latest news is that a chapter of the Jesuit...
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Catholic Clergy Abuse Report From Belgium
The Roman Catholic clerical child abuse scandal, unfortunately, refuses to go away. Nor — given the nature of the crimes committed, compounded by the many long decades of time during which they...
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The Catholic Church, Malta, And A Fallen Congressman
Just when you thought this twisted, sordid tale of institutional rot and moral bankruptcy couldn’t get any stranger than it already has, the Roman Catholic Church’s clerical child abuse scandal has...
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Vatican Issues New Guidelines on Abuse Allegations
The worldwide Catholic clerical child-abuse scandal has been two decades or more in the making. Amazingly, however, the Vatican bureaucrats who rule over the Roman Catholic Church haven’t yet seen fit...
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More Church Hypocrisy in Handling of Wayward Priests
I’ve blogged previously about how the Roman Catholic Church deals with priests who’ve broken rules or laws. They handle rogue priests in different ways, depending on the situation. Rather famously,...
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Diocese of Norwich, CT Declares Bankruptcy
Almost a year and a half ago, I blogged that the diocese of Norwich in my home state of Connecticut had released a list of known-abusing priests. Since then the diocese has contended with lawsuits over...
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