Pope Francis’ commission on the clergy’s sexual violation of children had a timely private screening in Rome last week of “Spotlight,” the Oscar-nominated film about the pedophilia scandal in Boston. The film offers the Vatican, if
Australian paedophilia Commission gives green light to Pell testifying via video link
The Vatican Secretary for the Economy is being called to give evidence after he was accused of covering up an old abuse case. Polisca says the cardinal is unable to attend the hearing in person due to health reasons
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Critic of Vatican refuses to step down from sex abuse commission
File under: No Surprise Here!
A prominent and outspoken British member of a papal advisory commission on sexual abuse by the clergy on Saturday
Catholic high school: Archdiocese ‘does not permit’ same-sex wedding announcement
By BY JOEL CONNELLY
Bishop Blanchet High School in Seattle has refused to run an announcement in its alumni magazine for the same-sex marriage
‘I’m gay and I’m a priest, period.’
After 23 years in Chicago parishes, the question had pushed its way to the surface.
He weighed his options. He thought about his parishioners. Many, he knew, were accepting of gay people, even of same-sex marriage, but … Continue reading
Indian Supreme Court Agrees To Reconsider Homosexuality Ruling
The court announced Tuesday that it would hold new hearings on a 2013 ruling that recriminalized homosexuality.
The Supreme Court of India gave
Former student priest arrested on suspicion of trying to pay to rape babies
Joel Wright, 23, detained at San Diego airport while carrying baby clothes and $2,000 in cash
A former student priest has been arrested on suspicion of trying to pay to rape a baby and a young girl,
Inside the secret gay movement at one of America’s most homophobic colleges
born-again this way
Five people are watching TV on a laptop on a tepid winter Thursday night in a cozy red house, in an unremarkable suburb 30 miles west of Chicago. This scene would be totally banal
Irish American Cardinal Raymond Burke blames women for church’s problems
File under: What A Twit!
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The crisis in Catholicism apparently has one source: women. According to Cardinal Raymond Burke, since the 1960’s women have “feminized” the church and discouraged “manly” men from participating in clerical life.
Club Fight: Tenn. Residents Complain About High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance
By Rob Boston
At public schools around the country, students, mostly high schoolers, are forming Gay-Straight Alliance clubs. Fundamentalist Christians often freak out over the existence of these clubs, like these people are doing in Winchester, Tenn.
Whenever this happens,