Liberal Jesuit Catholic priest Fr. James Martin, whose teachings regularly undermine church doctrine on homosexual acts and transgenderism, has apologized and deleted his tweet eulogizing a former archbishop who protected sexually abusive priests.
Liberal Jesuit Catholic priest Father James Martin sparked a significant backlash from people of all persuasions on Monday night.
The general secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned Tuesday in the wake of allegations he engaged in continued sexual misconduct with adults through the use of a location-based hookup app.
Kamala Harris was the only district attorney of America’s 50 largest cities who did not prosecute a case of Catholic priest sexual abuse.
Kamala Harris said she wanted to be a prosecutor to protect victims of sexual abuse, but she failed to prosecute any San Francisco priests accused by victims.
As San Francisco’s district attorney, Kamala Harris failed to prosecute sexual abuse claims brought against Catholic priests, despite victims’ pleas.
Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick ran a sex abuse ring of underage boys at a New Jersey shore house, according to a recent lawsuit.
I wonder if any liberals are re-thinking their insistence that the Boy Scouts allow gay men to take 13-year-old boys on overnight camping trips.
Revelations in the new book “Profiles in Corruption” show that Democrats lack credibility in accusing President Donald Trump of “abuse of power,” the book’s author Peter Schweizer said in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour.
The Vatican received information in 2015 and 2017 that an Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis had taken naked selfies, exhibited “obscene” behavior and had been accused of misconduct with seminarians, his former vicar general told The Associated Press, undermining Vatican claims that allegations of sexual abuse were only made a few months ago.
Prosecutors from Montgomery County, Texas, entered the offices of the Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston on Wednesday morning in search of “secret archives” and other records related to clergy sex abuse.
Documents obtained by CNN suggest Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, protected sexual predators in the diocese.
A Catholic priest in Chicago says he burned a rainbow LGBTQ flag in a private “exorcism ceremony,” calling the flag a piece of “propaganda.”
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.
Pope Francis invited several bishops accused of covering up clerical sex abuse to the Synod on Youth this October.
Law enforcement officials in Montgomery County, Texas, executed a search warrant at a rehabilitation center in connection with charges of sexual abuse filed against a Catholic priest.
Bishops who are accused should remain silent like Jesus on Good Friday when the crowds called out for his crucifixion, Pope Francis said Tuesday.
Pope Francis commissioned a four-book study in 2010 as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires attacking sexual abuse victims and defending a priest convicted of molesting a teenage boy.
An Argentine woman who says she suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a cleric in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires — where Pope Francis once served as the cardinal archbishop — said the pope ignored victims of sexual abuse while welcoming celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio with open arms.
Texas police officers arrested a Catholic priest on Tuesday in connection to allegations of sexual abuse of children two decades ago. A young girl had also accused the priest in 2001 of kissing and touching her inappropriately when she was 16.
An armed man was arrested in an Amarillo, Texas, church Sunday morning and his wife allegedly cased the building.
“To me, it’s a very sad story. The Pope is handling it, I guess, the best anyone can handle it,” President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Daily Caller. “How is he going to handle it?”
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.”
Francis recommends silence to counter those who “only seek scandal,” in what appeared to be a response to claims that he covered up sex abuse.
Nearly 80,000 people have signed a Change.org petition urging Pope Francis to strip Cardinal Donald Wuerl of his position as archbishop of Washington, DC.
“To your hurting flock, Pope Francis, your words are inadequate,” the women write. “They sting, reminiscent of the clericalism you so recently condemned. We need leadership, truth, and transparency. We, your flock, deserve your answers now.”
The bishop of Springfield, IL, has joined the growing band of prelates calling for a full investigation into the serious allegations brought by the former papal nuncio to the United States against high ranking churchmen, including Pope Francis.
After suffering abuse from the age of ten, Mike McDonnell says that he stole more than $100,000 dollars as recompense.
The attorney generals in Illinois and Missouri have announced investigations into the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal.
On Wednesday, the Pittsburgh diocese announced that the Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School would remove the priest’s name.
Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, has told priests under his leadership he has no knowledge of a “gay subculture” in his archdiocese and has instructed them not to speak to media about sexual misconduct.
“Men at the highest levels of the Church knew the rumours about McCarrick and took no action,” Schmitz writes. “As a result, the allegations have gravely damaged the credibility of the whole hierarchy.”
John Zmirak, senior editor at The Stream and author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism,” advocates use of financial pressure against the Catholic Church to address the sexual abuse scandal following Tuesday’s grand jury report regarding a systematic cover-up of sexual abuse in Pennsylvania dioceses.
