The former papal nuncio to the United States has written to the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore, telling them to be courageous in dealing with clerical sex abuse, after Pope Francis ordered them not to vote on new measures.
Pope Francis has temporarily suspended efforts by the United States bishops to address the issue of clerical sex abuse, ordering them to wait until he can meet with them in February together with the presidents of other national bishops’ conferences from around the world.
The archdiocese of New York has removed auxiliary bishop John Jenik from public ministry, following “credible allegations” that he abused a teenage boy in the 1980s.
Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput said the final document of the concluded Vatican synod of bishops on youth is “frankly inadequate and disappointing on the abuse matter,” an assessment shared by a number of synod fathers.
Pope Francis said Saturday that recent accusations leveled against him for allegedly mishandling the case of serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick are really an attack against the Church itself.
The Jesuit-run America magazine has weighed in on the debate regarding homosexuality and the Catholic priesthood, insisting that ordaining gay men does not increase the risk of clerical sex abuse.
A former Vatican ambassador said Friday that a supposed rebuttal of his claims that Pope Francis grossly mishandled the case of serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick actually confirms the substance of his accusations.
Pope Francis returned to one of his favorite topics this week, preaching against Christians who are “rigid” and resistant to change.
“Pope Bergoglio himself seems willing to talk about almost every subject but his own beliefs and record,” writes Jesuit Father James V. Schall in a searing essay Monday. And yet these are the questions that “seem most at issue.” “The
The head of the Vatican’s bishops’ office has reproached a former papal nuncio for his “unjust and unjustified attack” against Pope Francis for the way he handled the case of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s serial homosexual abuse.
The Vatican announced Saturday that it will begin an investigation into the serial homosexual abuse of former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick in the face of mounting pressure to address the issue.
Pope Francis told young people Wednesday that their critical ideas have a right to be heard and respected in a curious departure from recent statements that accusers are Satanic.
Pope Francis’ approval rating among U.S. Catholics has struck an all-time low in the face of his refusal to answer allegations that he rehabilitated serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Pew revealed Tuesday.
The Catholic bishops are gathering in Rome for a synod in a moment in which “the Church faces perhaps its gravest crisis since the Protestant Reformation in the form of the worldwide clerical sexual abuse scandals,” according to veteran Vatican analyst John L. Allen, Jr.
In the face of Rome’s refusal to open an investigation into Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s serial homosexual abuse, a group of lay Catholics has announced that it is launching its own full inquiry into all the cardinals of the Catholic Church and their relationship with abuse.
The Vatican denounced the scandal of child abuse before the U.N. General Assembly Monday but made no mention of the Church’s own crisis with allegations of mishandling abusers pointing to Pope Francis himself.
A prominent Catholic priest and theologian has published a sobering essay, insisting that if Pope Francis and the Church’s bishops are unwilling or unable to tackle the clerical sex abuse crisis, God will intervene in another way.
The Vatican announced Friday that Pope Francis has dismissed Chilean homosexual abuser Fernando Karadima from the Catholic priesthood.
The former papal nuncio to the United States published a 4-page 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.”
Pope Francis is finding it harder and harder to get by on trust alone as the faithful demand information and transparency, a new suggests.
The former director of the U.S. Bishops Secretariat for Doctrine said this week that any serious investigation into the clerical sex abuse crisis must address “the issue of active homosexuality among the clergy and the bishops.”
Pope Francis masterfully controlled the press briefing aboard the papal plane Tuesday in such a way as to make sure that he did not have to face embarrassing questions about how he handled the case of serial abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
Pope Francis told young people in Estonia Tuesday that he understands their frustration over financial and sexual scandals in the Church, while promising them “transparency.”
Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio, Editor-in-Chief of Ignatius Press, said this week that Pope Francis needs to “be a man” and answer allegations that he seriously mishandled the case of serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich has removed a priest from his parish for publicly burning an LGBT rainbow flag.
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has taken the proactive step of hiring a former federal prosecutor to assist the Archdiocese of New York in dealing with the clerical sex abuse crisis.
Papal adviser Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga said last week that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s serial sex abuse and the way the pope handled it is a “private matter” that should not be treated as a sensational story.
Pope Francis granted pop singer Bono a private audience in the Vatican Wednesday, just months after the U2 singer publicly campaigned to legalize abortion in his native Ireland.
The president of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) came out Tuesday in defense of Pope Francis, who faces allegations of having knowingly rehabilitated serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
Bishops who are accused should remain silent like Jesus on Good Friday when the crowds called out for his crucifixion, Pope Francis said Tuesday.
According to one of Pope Francis’ closest advisers, the pontiff has not answered allegations by a former Vatican ambassador that he seriously mishandled the case of serial abuser Theodore McCarrick to avoid feeding his accuser’s “megalomania.”
A prominent U.S. theologian said this week that recent revelations about clergy sex abuse will ignite “a #MeToo movement about homosexual abuse” both in seminaries and among priests.
Satan, the “Great Accuser,” has been unleashed against the bishops of the Church, Pope Francis said Tuesday, in a thinly veiled reference to the former Vatican nuncio to the United States.
In a statement released on the first day of a three-day meeting, the six cardinals “expressed full solidarity with Pope Francis in the face of what has happened in the last few weeks, aware that in the current debate the Holy See is formulating possible and necessary clarifications.”
Philip Lawler, editor of Catholic World News, believes the sexual abuse scandal currently engulfing Pope Francis could create divisions “so great that the Church will split” and lead to “the equivalent of the Reformation.”
