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World’s largest clergy abuse survivors network says abusive priests ‘dumped’ in faraway places
Guam’s Catholic church leadership has known for decades about clergy sex abuses that happened as early as the 1950s, a retired priest said
Vatican condemns radio station over anti-gay comments on quake
File under: Me thinks she doth protest too much.
The Vatican has condemned a right-wing Catholic radio station after a broadcast said the recent earthquakes in Italy were “God’s punishment” for gay civil unions.
The remarks, made on the station
N.J. priest charged with possession of child pornography
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Fr. Kevin Gugliotta
A Roman Catholic priest from New Jersey has been arrested on child pornography charges.
Kevin Gugliotta, 54, of Mahwah allegedly uploaded illicit images from a computer in his vacation home in Lehigh Township, Pa.
First: Do No Harm. Second: Do No Pussy Stuff.
High stakes for Canada’s Bishops in euthanasia row
While having dinner recently with my former producer, Bernie Lucht, the Montreal Jewish intellectual and onetime head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship intellectual affairs programme, Ideas, he looked across the table at me and asked … Read the rest
Pope’s words create confusion for Catholics on same-sex relationships
By MICHELLE R. SMITH
An ideological tug of war over the firing of a Rhode Island church music director for marrying his same-sex partner illustrates the confusion that permeates some U.S. Roman Catholic parishes over Pope Francis’s words on homosexuality.
Catholics who choose assisted death struggling with compassion vs. doctrine
Scholars say church laws do allow for some flexibility on final sacraments for assisted death
By Geordon Omand
The archbishop of Edmonton Richard Smith is shown in a handout photo. Smith has previously defended the church’s decision to refuse funerals
Struggle of compassion versus doctrine for Catholics who choose assisted death
by Geordon Omand
VANCOUVER – A proper funeral is far more than an end-of-life celebration for practising Catholics, who believe last rites cleanse the soul of sin in preparation for eternal life in heaven.
But for the faithful questioning whether
God’s Diary is Embarrassing
San Diego priest charged with sexual assault of Minnesota woman during private mass
A Catholic priest from San Diego has been charged with criminal sexual conduct for an incident during a private mass for the victim in her parents’ Mendota Heights, Minnesota home back in 2010. Jacob Bertrand, 33, was charged by summons