Priest claims he was abused by older cleric, and church is punishing him for speaking out
By Catherine Deveney
The Catholic church in Scotland faces a fresh sex-abuse crisis involving some of the country’s senior clerics. The Observer has seen
Tutu: I’d prefer hell over homophobic heaven
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South African social rights activist Desmond Tutu says he would rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.
The 81-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate told the launch of a
Evangelizing the institutional church: an interview with Helmut Schüller
By Jamie Manson
Much has been written about Austrian priest and reformer Helmut Schüller since he opened his 15-city U.S. tour, called “The Catholic Tipping Point,” in New York last week.
Schüller has been making news in the Roman Catholic
Ohio Officials Ordered To Recognize Gay Couple’s Marriage
Ohio Officials Ordered To Recognize Gay Couple’s Marriage
Married on July 11 in Maryland, John Arthur is in hospice care and “certain to die soon.” He and his husband have sued to ensure their marriage is recognized by Ohio
Pope’s bank clean-up man ‘found stuck in lift with rent boy’
As the man charged with cleaning out the stables at the scandal-struck Vatican bank, Monsignor Battista Ricca will need Machiavellian cunning, good fortune and a whiter-than-white record to have even a fighting chance.
But Pope Francis’s new banker appears to
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U.K. Lords Pass Gay-Marriage Bill
By Robert Hutton
The U.K. House of Lords passed Prime Minister David Cameron’s bill to allow same-sex marriage, sending it back to the lower House of Commons for final agreement.
The upper, unelected chamber approved the Marriage (Same Sex Couples)
U.N. rights body poses tough questions to Vatican over child abuse
By Robert Evans
A United Nations human rights panel has posed a list of tough questions to the Vatican about child abuse by Catholic priests, a potential embarrassment for Pope Francis a few months into his papacy.
The U.N. Committee